• Detail of a roundel of two owls, one of whom has caught a rodent., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• Detail, Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• null, Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• Detail of a miniature of a hydra swallowed by a crcodile and bursting through its side., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• Coloured initials, including 'G'(regorius)., Chronicle from 1181 to 1201 (index Chronicon, Annalium Anglicanorum)

annotations in red. Capitals marked in red. Chronicle from 1181 to 1201 (index Chronicon, Annalium Anglicanorum) Mr. Story: sold to John Covel on 3 March 1663/4 (see below).John Covel (b. 1638, d. 1722), chaplain of the Levant Company at Constantinople

• Flyleaf with extract from Isidore and list of books borrowed by John de Haliwell from Ramsey Abbey., Sententiae (f. 3); Speculum Gregorii (f. 45); Abbreuiatio Moralium Gregorii Magni in Iob (f. 116)

and list of books borrowed by John de Haliwell from Ramsey Abbey. St. Gregory the Great's 'Moralia In Job' was a hugely important medieval text, but is also extremely long: it was typically bound in three or more large volumes.

• Decorated initial 'A'(bsolucio) with pen-flourishing including foliate motifs at the beginning of the alphabetical index., 'Veritas theologie', a theological treatise

on f. 190). Capitals marked in yellow. Coloured initials and paraphs in red or blue. 'Veritas theologie', a theological treatise John Blacman (index Joannes Blakman) (b. 1408, d. ?1485), biographer of Henry VI, fellow of Merton College Oxford c. 1437-1443,

• Coloured initials in blue with pen-flourished decoration in red and blue., Fragment of a leaf from a second half of the 13th century English Troper-Proser containing ‘Gloria’ trope and sequences for the first, second and third Advent Sundays.

of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716) for historical purposes. 190 printed book fragments from the volume were transferred to the

• Miniature of an antelope and a man with an axe. The antelope has caught its saw-like antlers in a shrub, giving a hunter the chance to kill it., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• Miniature of men killing a unicorn that has been lured into a maiden's lap., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• Miniature of beavers (Castor) with hunters, illustrating the text that the beavers' testicles had healing properties, and that the animals would bite them off in order to escape capture., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• Detail of a miniature of a hyena (Yena) devouring a human corpse, which it pulls from a tomb., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• Miniature of hunters spearing a bonnacon, and protecting themselves from its burning dung with a shield. In the roundel below: miniature of a mother ape climbing a tree and trying to escape from hunters, with one baby in front and a second on her back., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• Puzzle initial 'V'(erba) at the beginning of Ecclesiastes., Bible (from Proverbs to the first Book of Maccabees), imperfect at the end

xxx^s^' (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~ 1966, and Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert

• Miniature of a monoceros (unicorn)., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• Detail of a miniature of a monoceros (unicorn)., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• Detail of a miniature of a mother bear licking her cub, to give it its shape., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• Miniature of woman milking a cow, who is licking its calf., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• Miniature of a donkey (Asinus) prompted towards a water wheel by a man with a stick and a whistle., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• Miniature of three horses., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard