• Detail of an historiated initial 'C' of a monk swinging a censer over the coffin of Gille, first wife of Rollo, first duke of Normandy., Chronique des ducs de Normandie (index Chronicle of Normandy; Chronique de Normandie)

15th century, price 'xxvi s. viii d.' (on a piece of parchment pasted onto f. [ii]).?The collegiate church of St. John of Beverley, Yorkshire, 15th century: inscribed 's[an]c[t]i Beverlaci' (f. 252).Added Prophecy of Merlin, 15th century, in English (ff. 249v-250).

• Musical notation, on four-line red staves, 13th century., Chronique des ducs de Normandie (index Chronicle of Normandy; Chronique de Normandie)

15th century, price 'xxvi s. viii d.' (on a piece of parchment pasted onto f. [ii]).?The collegiate church of St. John of Beverley, Yorkshire, 15th century: inscribed 's[an]c[t]i Beverlaci' (f. 252).Added Prophecy of Merlin, 15th century, in English (ff. 249v-250).

• Historiated initial 'O'(iez) with baptism scene., Chronique des ducs de Normandie (index Chronicle of Normandy; Chronique de Normandie)

15th century, price 'xxvi s. viii d.' (on a piece of parchment pasted onto f. [ii]).?The collegiate church of St. John of Beverley, Yorkshire, 15th century: inscribed 's[an]c[t]i Beverlaci' (f. 252).Added Prophecy of Merlin, 15th century, in English (ff. 249v-250).

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uant) with interlace and a winged dragon at the beginning of the text., Chronique des ducs de Normandie (index Chronicle of Normandy; Chronique de Normandie)

15th century, price 'xxvi s. viii d.' (on a piece of parchment pasted onto f. [ii]).?The collegiate church of St. John of Beverley, Yorkshire, 15th century: inscribed 's[an]c[t]i Beverlaci' (f. 252).Added Prophecy of Merlin, 15th century, in English (ff. 249v-250).

• Initial 'S'(anctam) with penwork decoration., Sermons (61)

texts on medicine (f. 1v), 'De modo scribendi certa vocabula' (ff. 2-3v), 'De xii signis solis' (f. 4r-4v), 14th/15th centuries. John Thring (?) (d. by 1484), principal of St Mildred Hall, Oxford and, among others, keeper of the Warwick chest:

• Decorated initials with pen-flourishing in Petrus Riga's Aurora., Riga's Aurora (ff. 2-171v), Alta Villa's Architrenius (index Archithrenius)(ff. 173-224v; imperfect)

Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initials Written by several hands Petrus Riga (index Petrus de Riga), Johannes de Alta Villa (index Johannes Hautivillensis, Johannes de Hauteville, John de Hauteville) England

• Decorated initials with pen-flourishing in Petrus Riga's Aurora., Riga's Aurora (ff. 2-171v), Alta Villa's Architrenius (index Archithrenius)(ff. 173-224v; imperfect)

Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initials Written by several hands Petrus Riga (index Petrus de Riga), Johannes de Alta Villa (index Johannes Hautivillensis, Johannes de Hauteville, John de Hauteville) England