• null, Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Additional 53710 and Stowe 378--both also from St Augustine's--from Sadler).Unidentified owner: with his number '61.' (f. ii, upper right corner).Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: his sale 6 April 1807, lot 1186, bought

• null, Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Additional 53710 and Stowe 378--both also from St Augustine's--from Sadler).Unidentified owner: with his number '61.' (f. ii, upper right corner).Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: his sale 6 April 1807, lot 1186, bought

• null, Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

Additional 53710 and Stowe 378--both also from St Augustine's--from Sadler).Unidentified owner: with his number '61.' (f. ii, upper right corner).Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: his sale 6 April 1807, lot 1186, bought

• Diagrams of hands, with signs of pricking visible, as if for pouncing. Gaps in the text, such as in the second line of text, are probably present because of the intended alternation in the colours of initials, but no green or other colour initials were executed. For example, a guide letter 'e' is visible in the margin adjacent to the final line, for which no initial was executed., 'Quomodo inueniri possint concurrentes et data cuiuslibet anni per manum'

14th-15th century (f. 1).Added tables to show the dates of Easter from 1406-1433 (f. 13); and from 1420-1447 (f. 13v).? John Trendle, a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury (d. 1433): inscribed 'Quere residuum istius operis in tabula Johannis Trendle' (f.

• Drawing of hands. The rubric on this page states that the fingers of the hand, illustrated in the lower diagram, can be used for finding the date of Easter. Each joint or tip, from the base of the second finger to the top of the thumb, working down the fingers and up the thumb, is marked with numbers and letters. Those from the middle finger to the thumb represent all the possible dates of Easter that fall within March., 'Quomodo inueniri possint concurrentes et data cuiuslibet anni per manum'

14th-15th century (f. 1).Added tables to show the dates of Easter from 1406-1433 (f. 13); and from 1420-1447 (f. 13v).? John Trendle, a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury (d. 1433): inscribed 'Quere residuum istius operis in tabula Johannis Trendle' (f.

• Red initial 'S'(cribo), and a drawing of hands, in a treatise concerning calendrical computations using the joints and tips of the fingers of hands: it is illustrated with drawings of the hands, marked with numbers from 1 to 7 (i to vii) and letters from A to G, at these points., 'Quomodo inueniri possint concurrentes et data cuiuslibet anni per manum'

14th-15th century (f. 1).Added tables to show the dates of Easter from 1406-1433 (f. 13); and from 1420-1447 (f. 13v).? John Trendle, a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury (d. 1433): inscribed 'Quere residuum istius operis in tabula Johannis Trendle' (f.

• Drawing of hands. The hands here are marked with all the possible dates of Easter when it falls in April, working down the left-hand thumb, and then up the left-hand fingers, and up the first two fingers of the right hand., 'Quomodo inueniri possint concurrentes et data cuiuslibet anni per manum'

14th-15th century (f. 1).Added tables to show the dates of Easter from 1406-1433 (f. 13); and from 1420-1447 (f. 13v).? John Trendle, a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury (d. 1433): inscribed 'Quere residuum istius operis in tabula Johannis Trendle' (f.

• Diagram of a hand, as a mnemonic devise for the compotus., Mnemonic verses, notes, etc., on the compotus

14th-15th century (f. 1).Added tables to show the dates of Easter from 1406-1433 (f. 13); and from 1420-1447 (f. 13v).? John Trendle, a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury (d. 1433): inscribed 'Quere residuum istius operis in tabula Johannis Trendle' (f.

• Medieval binding of whittawed leather over oak boards with a flat spine and two projecting flaps, at the top and bottom. Fastened to a staple at the bottom of the front cover are three links of a chain. A white strap, secured by a decorated metal plate to the front cover, fits onto a pin in the middle of the back cover by means of a 16th-century metal loop. This is possibly a restoration of the original fastening, but previously two straps went from the front to the back, as is shown by the surviving sockets for them and their pins., Commentaries on Isaiah and Ezechiel

note on the contents, beginning 'Liber sancti edmundi in quo continentur', c. 1375 (f. 1).? Possibly notes of 'the librarian', John of Boston 'Boston Buriensis', a monk of Bury St Edmunds (said to have fl. c. 1410) (ff. 1, 159);

• Interlace initial 'H'(ic) with an animal head at the beginning of the common prologue to the Gospel of John., Gospels of Maelbrigte (the 'Armagh Gospels'; 'Marelbrid Gospels'), with glosses

beginning of the common prologue to the Gospel of John. According to Glunz, with marginal and interlinear glosses that were read in the cathedral school in Paris in the fourth decade of the 12th century.Henry and Marsh-Micheli's Group IVA: 'Middle

• Detail of miniature of John the Baptist., Psalter (The 'Melisende Psalter') with canticles, prayers, and litany

miniature of John the Baptist. The calendar is a pre-Sarum Winchester diocese secular calendar, according to Morgan 1981.The Psalter conforms to the standards of the Holy Sepulchre, and the office of the dead is the use of Bayeux, according to

• Detail of miniature of John., Psalter (The 'Melisende Psalter') with canticles, prayers, and litany

miniature of John. The calendar is a pre-Sarum Winchester diocese secular calendar, according to Morgan 1981.The Psalter conforms to the standards of the Holy Sepulchre, and the office of the dead is the use of Bayeux, according to Dondi 2004

• Zoomorphic initial 'C'(onsummatis) with two hybrids and foliate motifs, at the beginning of the 8th of John Cassian's Collationes; three smaller initials 'G'(ermanus), 'S'(erenus) and 'D'(e) with penwork decoration; simple initials in the list of chapters., Collationes of the Fathers (ff. 1v-115); Rite for the consecration of bells (ff. 115v-116).

motifs, at the beginning of the 8th of John Cassian's Collationes; three smaller initials 'G'(ermanus), 'S'(erenus) and 'D'(e) with penwork decoration; simple initials in the list of chapters. Leaf signatures (a1-a4, b1-b4 etc.); quire marks (in centre of the lower

• Decorated initial 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of Augustine's 'Enarrationes in Psalmos', followed by display script., Enarrationes in Psalmos, imperfect

as well.Letters ? 'Ah' (class-mark?) in upper margin of f. 1. John Batteley (b. c.1646, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary; bought in 1723 through his nephew, John Batteley, by Edward Harley, along with other manuscripts (see ~Diary~

• Puzzle initial 'F'(rater) at the beginning of the Prologue., Bible, without the Psalms

with simple brown ink flourishing (ff. 454, 462rv, 466, 469rv, 471v-472, 475v, 477, 499, 502v-503, etc.). Bible, without the Psalms John, vicar of Elmham, 13th century: inscription recording the gift of this manuscript to Norwich Franciscans, for the use of

• Historiated initial 'L'(iber)with the Tree of Jesse at the beginning of Matthew's Gospel. Maiden and unicorn in the margin., Bible, with the Psalms (ff. 208v-231v; imperfect) and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 494-533), imperfect (starts in the middle of Exodus)

of Exodus) Concordance between the Gospels completed in a slightly later hand (f. 534r-534v, completed on ff. 535-537). John Clifton (perhaps John Clifton, Prior of Reading Abbey between 1486 and 1490): inscribed late 15th century 'Comes de aym[...] a d[?]no

• Decorated initial 'M'(oysen) at the beginning of Eusebius's preface to his Chronici canones., Chronica

subsequently superseded by a 'second version', continued to 1182.John Pyk, schoolmaster of St Martin le Grand, London, sometimes confused with John Pike (fl. c. 1310, c. 1330), annalist: inscribed 'Iste liber constat Iohanni Pyke magistro scolarum sancti Martini magni Londoniarum',

• Historiated initial 'E'(x Cassiodoro) with the author Cassiodorus pointing at an open book, and a foliated tendril extending into the margin; the body of the letter contains a blue figure. Smaller historiated initial 'C'(um) with the head of a bishop., Miscellany including William of Malmesbury's De dictis et factis memorabilibus philosophorum (Polyhistor) (ff. 3- 40v), Cassiodorus' De orthographia (ff. 41-52), Marbod's Lapidarium, with gloss (ff. 106-123), Priscianus' Solutiones ad Chosroem [regem Persarum] (ff. 139v-160v), Nemesius' De natura hominis (ff. 168-196), Albericus' Flores Rhetorici (ff. 196-206), John of Salisbury's De septem septenis (ff. 206v-215v), Joachim of Fiore's Praephatio super Apocalypsim (ff. 216-224), imperfect; De praesagiis tempestatum (f. 224r-v), imperfect

106-123), Priscianus' Solutiones ad Chosroem [regem Persarum] (ff. 139v-160v), Nemesius' De natura hominis (ff. 168-196), Albericus' Flores Rhetorici (ff. 196-206), John of Salisbury's De septem septenis (ff. 206v-215v), Joachim of Fiore's Praephatio super Apocalypsim (ff. 216-224), imperfect; De praesagiis tempestatum

• Detail of an historiated initial 'I'(n principio) with an Evangelist portrait of John., Bible ('The Arnstein Bible') (Job to Revelation), including the Psalms in three versions in three columns, and diagrams, including of the monstrous races (f. 243)

principio) with an Evangelist portrait of John. The first volume of this Bible is Harley 2798.A part of the annals that used to be part of the Arnstein Bible has been rediscovered at Darmstadt, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Ms. 4128.Decorated quire signatures.

• Text of two prayers written in Insular minuscule with decorated initials., Prayer book (the 'Royal Prayer Book'), including the apocryphal letter of Christ to Abgar, and Gospel readings

Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Wigorniensis, Made in 1622-1623~, ed. by Ivor Atkins and N. Ker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944), no. 309. John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary: inscribed with his name 'Ioannes Theyer', with a dated note of 1649 (f.