• Coloured initial 'A'(nno)., Theological miscellany (contents listed in Notes)

S. Guthlaci (incomplete); Ambrose, De obseruantia episcoporum, De misteriis, De sacramentis and De utilitate; John Diaconus, Vita S. Nicholai (prologue); Translatio S. Nicholai (1087 to Bari); John Diaconus, Vita S. Nicholai; Miracula S. Nicholai Large initial in red with penwork

• Coloured initial 'B'(eatis) at the beginning of the Life of Nicholas of Myra (or Bari)., Theological miscellany (contents listed in Notes)

S. Guthlaci (incomplete); Ambrose, De obseruantia episcoporum, De misteriis, De sacramentis and De utilitate; John Diaconus, Vita S. Nicholai (prologue); Translatio S. Nicholai (1087 to Bari); John Diaconus, Vita S. Nicholai; Miracula S. Nicholai Large initial in red with penwork

• Coloured initial 'O'(mnipotentis) at the beginning of the prologue written by the 11th-century abbot of Thorney, Fulcard, to his the lives of the anchorites Thancred, Torhtred and Tova, which he presented to Bishop Walcelin of Winchester. Their veneration seems to have been limited to Thorney and its dependent house, Deeping., Theological miscellany (contents listed in Notes)

S. Guthlaci (incomplete); Ambrose, De obseruantia episcoporum, De misteriis, De sacramentis and De utilitate; John Diaconus, Vita S. Nicholai (prologue); Translatio S. Nicholai (1087 to Bari); John Diaconus, Vita S. Nicholai; Miracula S. Nicholai Large initial in red with penwork

• Decorated initial with a hybrid creature and foliage., Commentary on the Gospel of John and the Epistles of John

colour (f. 136v). Small initials in brown or red. Rubrics in red. Commentary on the Gospel of John and the Epistles of John The first leaf of this manuscript is bound in Harley 5958, f. 87. In the lower margin

• Decorated initial 'P'(raeterea)., Historia Ecclesiastica; Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae (ff. 173v-175v); tract on the resting places of English saints, imperfect

1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723.The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford

• Decorated initial 'H'(oc) with reserved designs and penwork decoration including arabesque motifs., Diadema monachorum

(d. 1720): inscribed 'William Cocke / Virginia / July 4, 1719' (f. 1); William Cocke is mentioned in John G. Kolp, ‘Holloway, John (1666?-1734), ~Oxford Dictionary of National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/articleHL/68571, accessed 9 Jul 2007].The Harley

• Woodcut of John holding a chalice., Collection of Scottish poetry

of John holding a chalice. 9 large (ff. 5v, 116v, 125v, 187, 189v, 193v, 198v, 208v, 213v [the same as on f. 193v]) and 8 small (ff. 178v, 182, 183, 183v, 185, 188v, 190v, 204v) woodcuts of the 15th century,

• Coloured initial 'H'(er ys godspelles) in green with penwork decoration in red, with ownership inscriptions of Thomas Cranmer (Thomas Cantuarien[sis]) and John Lumley., West Saxon Gospels (the 'Wessex Gospels')

in red, with ownership inscriptions of Thomas Cranmer (Thomas Cantuarien[sis]) and John Lumley. Copied, directly or indirectly, from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 441, omitting some passages due to defects in the Bodley manuscript (Marc 16:14-20, Luke 16:14- 17:1, and 24:

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'S'(i) with two lions, at the beginning of the Policraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

at the beginning of the Policraticus. Contains three treatises by John of Salisbury (b. c. 1120, d. 1180), bishop of Chartres (1176-1180): the Policraticus, composed in c. 1159 (ff. 2-161), the Metalogicon (ff. 161-208v), and the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

• Illuminated initial 'I'(nter) at the beginning of book 1 of the Polycraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

1 of the Polycraticus. Contains three treatises by John of Salisbury (b. c. 1120, d. 1180), bishop of Chartres (1176-1180): the Policraticus, composed in c. 1159 (ff. 2-161), the Metalogicon (ff. 161-208v), and the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum (ff. 210-219v).

• Ownership inscription of John Pyk, schoolmaster of St Martin le Grand, London, reading 'Iste liber constat Iohanni Pyke magistro scolarum sancti Martini magni Londoniarum', with extracts of notabilia from Robert Torigni's chronicle., Chronica

inscription of John Pyk, schoolmaster of St Martin le Grand, London, reading 'Iste liber constat Iohanni Pyke magistro scolarum sancti Martini magni Londoniarum', with extracts of notabilia from Robert Torigni's chronicle. Contains the first version of the Chronica of Robert

• Decorated initial 'N'(on) at the beginning of book 5 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

5 of the Metalogicon. Contains three treatises by John of Salisbury (b. c. 1120, d. 1180), bishop of Chartres (1176-1180): the Policraticus, composed in c. 1159 (ff. 2-161), the Metalogicon (ff. 161-208v), and the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum (ff. 210-219v).

• Decorated initial 'A'(dversus), at the beginning of book 1 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

1 of the Metalogicon. Contains three treatises by John of Salisbury (b. c. 1120, d. 1180), bishop of Chartres (1176-1180): the Policraticus, composed in c. 1159 (ff. 2-161), the Metalogicon (ff. 161-208v), and the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum (ff. 210-219v).

• Illuminated initial 'D'(ogmate), at the beginning of the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum. Contains three treatises by John of Salisbury (b. c. 1120, d. 1180), bishop of Chartres (1176-1180): the Policraticus, composed in c. 1159 (ff. 2-161), the Metalogicon (ff. 161-208v), and the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum (ff. 210-219v).

• Decorated initial 'N'(otum) at the beginning of book 6 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

6 of the Metalogicon. Contains three treatises by John of Salisbury (b. c. 1120, d. 1180), bishop of Chartres (1176-1180): the Policraticus, composed in c. 1159 (ff. 2-161), the Metalogicon (ff. 161-208v), and the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum (ff. 210-219v).

• Inhabited initial 'S'(i) with two lions, at the beginning of the Policraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

beginning of the Policraticus. Contains three treatises by John of Salisbury (b. c. 1120, d. 1180), bishop of Chartres (1176-1180): the Policraticus, composed in c. 1159 (ff. 2-161), the Metalogicon (ff. 161-208v), and the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum (ff. 210-219v).

• Foliate initial 'P'(lacuit) with animal masks, dragons and a marginal extension, at the beginning of the dedication to Henry II., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Miniature of a crane, and barnacle geese growing from a tree., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Miniature of two kingfishers and a stork eating a worm., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Miniature of a stag, a hare, a badger and a beaver in the lower margin of the folio., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the