• Historiated initial 'A'(d) of a master lecturing a pupil or annointing (?)., Fragment, possibly from a commentary to Pseudo-Augustine's 'De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae'

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

• Coloured initials with penwork decoration., Fragment of glossed Psalm 144:14-17

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

• Coloured initial with penwork decoration., Fragment from a glossed Bible, Maccabees 4:54-59

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

• Coloured initial with penwork decoration., Fragment from a glossed Bible, Corinthians 2:13-14

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

• Puzzle initial 'I'(n) and coloured initial 'L'(ibrum) with pen-flourished decoration., Leaf from a Bible, Tobias 13:19-14.16, followed by Jerome's prologue to Ester and Ester 1:1-2:16

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

• Coloured initials with penwork decoration., Leaf from a Bible, Tobias 13:19-14.16, followed by Jerome's prologue to Ester and Ester 1:1-2:16

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

• Detail of a 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

• Puzzle initial 'P'(rimum) with pen-flourishing and display script., Acts of the Apostles, with glossa ordinaria

'1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6469.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: perhaps included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix 70, no. 193.Charles

• Text page with decorated initials and ownership inscription., Acts of the Apostles, with glossa ordinaria

'1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6469.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: perhaps included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix 70, no. 193.Charles

• Text page with partially erased initial and inscription., Historia Scolastica

fratris Ricardi de sancta Columba et fratris Galfridi Werdour, ita quod predicti fratres habeant vsum ad tempus vite' (f. 1). John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary, included in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uinta) and pen-flourished initials., Historia Scolastica

fratris Ricardi de sancta Columba et fratris Galfridi Werdour, ita quod predicti fratres habeant vsum ad tempus vite' (f. 1). John Theyer (bap. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary, included in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer

• Initial 'I'(n) decorated with zoomorphic form and extending into partial bar border., Pharetra, in four books

Blessed Virgin Mary and St Nicholas, Spalding, Lincolnshire: inscription on f. i v, 'Liber m[onaste]rii Spaldyng' (not noticed there by John Leland).On f. i v, passages copied from Isaiah 19 in 14th- or 15th-century English hand.Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

• Initial 'G'(regorius) with foliate and zoomorphic decoration., Pharetra, in four books

Blessed Virgin Mary and St Nicholas, Spalding, Lincolnshire: inscription on f. i v, 'Liber m[onaste]rii Spaldyng' (not noticed there by John Leland).On f. i v, passages copied from Isaiah 19 in 14th- or 15th-century English hand.Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

• Puzzle initial 'G'(regorius) with pen-flourishing and partial border., Pharetra, in four books

Blessed Virgin Mary and St Nicholas, Spalding, Lincolnshire: inscription on f. i v, 'Liber m[onaste]rii Spaldyng' (not noticed there by John Leland).On f. i v, passages copied from Isaiah 19 in 14th- or 15th-century English hand.Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

• Puzzle initial 'N'(emo) at the beginning of Jerome's prologue to Isaiah, with John Lumley's ownership inscription in the lower margin., Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel with Jerome's prologues and the Glossa ordinaria

of Jerome's prologue to Isaiah, with John Lumley's ownership inscription in the lower margin. f. i is a parchment flyleaf.1 blank parchment leaf between Isaiah and Jeremiah (ff. 107-108).At the end, on f. 297v, are lists of the kings of

• Historiated initial 'I'(n) with a nimbed eagle and decorated letters at the beginning of John, with marginal decoration., New Testament, with calendar (ff. 309v-312)

and decorated letters at the beginning of John, with marginal decoration. The calendar has a preponderance of French saints, including some that are specially associated with the south of France, e.g., Pontius, martyr (Nice, Narbonne, etc.), May 11; Genesius, martyr

• Puzzle initial 'D'(ominica) with penwork decoration at the beginning of the additional portion of the Ordinal., Ordinal for Hereford Cathedral, imperfect at the end

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

• Puzzle initial 'D'(ominica) with pen-flourished decoration at the beginning of the original text of the Ordinal., Ordinal for Hereford Cathedral, imperfect at the end

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

• Miniature of animals, including a ram, labelled 'Leena'., 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 knight on horseback and a tiger with a mirror, illustrating the text that a tiger can outrun a man on a horse, so in order to steal a cub and escape, the thief should throw down a mirror, and the tigress will stop to look at its own reflection, thinking it is her cub., 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