• 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

• Detail of historiated initial of Luke with an ox's head., 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

• Decorated initial 'V'(erba) containing a bird amidst foliage. The series of marks like the letter 's' in the margins are placed to the right of biblical quotations. At the extreme lower edge is a guide to the rubricator, but the rubric was never supplied, perhaps because the artist did not leave sufficient space., 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);

• 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.

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uintus) and a two-line rubric marking the end of Book 4 and the start of Book 5. 'Liber Quintus' (the fifth book) is written across the upper margins of the open pages, and sections of the text are numbered in leadpoint roman numerals in the upper and outer margins ('xxiii' and 'xxiiii'). The outer edge of the leaf also has guide-letters ('Q' and 'e') for the decorator., 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);

• Decorated initial 'F'(initis), at the beginning of the prologue to the second main text in the volume Unusually for the 12th century, there is an original foliation in the upper margin, which reads 'First leaf' in faint leadpoint., 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);

• Small coloured initials, and various forms of textual emendation. In the two-line rubric the roman numerals 'iii' and 'iiii' have been altered to 'ii' and 'iii'; the word 'liber' (book) has been changed to 'libri'; and the word 'Prologus' (prologue) has been inserted. In numerous other places corrections have been added between the lines of text., 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);

• At the end of the text, which ends with Book 6, a later Bury scribe (he refers to 'our bookcase of St. Edmund') has noted that there should be further texts: 'Here eight books of Jerome on Ezekiel are lacking, because he wrote 14 books on Ezekiel ...', 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);

• 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);

• 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