• Miniature of a man sowing crops, in the calendar for September., Psalter (for use in the diocese of Liège)

hand (f. 1r-1v).Thomas Jones: inscribed with his name, 16th century (f. 200v).Anderton?: inscribed with his name, 16th-17th century? (f. 204v). John Tratt: inscribed with his name, 16th-17th century? (f. 205v).Giles Brendt, 1633: inscribed with his name with added prayer (f.

• Miniature of a man making wine, in the calendar for October., Psalter (for use in the diocese of Liège)

hand (f. 1r-1v).Thomas Jones: inscribed with his name, 16th century (f. 200v).Anderton?: inscribed with his name, 16th-17th century? (f. 204v). John Tratt: inscribed with his name, 16th-17th century? (f. 205v).Giles Brendt, 1633: inscribed with his name with added prayer (f.

• Miniature of a man killing a pig, in the calendar for November., Psalter (for use in the diocese of Liège)

hand (f. 1r-1v).Thomas Jones: inscribed with his name, 16th century (f. 200v).Anderton?: inscribed with his name, 16th-17th century? (f. 204v). John Tratt: inscribed with his name, 16th-17th century? (f. 205v).Giles Brendt, 1633: inscribed with his name with added prayer (f.

• Miniature of a man baking, in the calendar for December., Psalter (for use in the diocese of Liège)

hand (f. 1r-1v).Thomas Jones: inscribed with his name, 16th century (f. 200v).Anderton?: inscribed with his name, 16th-17th century? (f. 204v). John Tratt: inscribed with his name, 16th-17th century? (f. 205v).Giles Brendt, 1633: inscribed with his name with added prayer (f.

• Prefatory miniature of the Annunciation., Psalter (for use in the diocese of Liège)

hand (f. 1r-1v).Thomas Jones: inscribed with his name, 16th century (f. 200v).Anderton?: inscribed with his name, 16th-17th century? (f. 204v). John Tratt: inscribed with his name, 16th-17th century? (f. 205v).Giles Brendt, 1633: inscribed with his name with added prayer (f.

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of David playing the harp in the upper register and David killing Goliath in the lower register, with a lion in the margin, at the beginning of the Psalms., Psalter (for use in the diocese of Liège)

hand (f. 1r-1v).Thomas Jones: inscribed with his name, 16th century (f. 200v).Anderton?: inscribed with his name, 16th-17th century? (f. 204v). John Tratt: inscribed with his name, 16th-17th century? (f. 205v).Giles Brendt, 1633: inscribed with his name with added prayer (f.

• Decorated initial 'J'(ohannes), at the beginning of the prologue to John., Gospel Book

beginning of the prologue to John. The manuscript contains a text of a manumission by King Athelstan, one of the earliest of the Anglo-Saxon examples of the practice of inserting records in sacred books. It was believed to be the

• Decorated initial 'In'(principio), at the beginning of John., Gospel Book

at the beginning of John. The manuscript contains a text of a manumission by King Athelstan, one of the earliest of the Anglo-Saxon examples of the practice of inserting records in sacred books. It was believed to be the book

• Miniature of an angel addressing Zacharias, father of John the Baptist, who kneels in front of an altar., Prayers for saints' vigils with a calendar

addressing Zacharias, father of John the Baptist, who kneels in front of an altar. Horizontal catchwords.Miniature curtains, likely of silk, once protected the full-page minitures. These are no longer extant, but the holes and thread, by means of which these

• Puzzle initial 'O'(rdo) with pen-flourishing including foliate motifs, dragon heads and masks, extending into a full border at the beginning of the text., Coronation order for the king of England

politician, owner of a library at Welbeck Abbey: his bookplate (f. iv). Henrietta Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755), daughter of John, married in 1713 Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron

• Historiated initial 'D'(omine) of a king kneeling before Christ., Fragment of a Psalter

on coloured grounds. Fragment of a Psalter John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 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,

• Puzzle initial 'O'(mnibus), at the beginning of the Historia Mongalorum., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica (see notes for complete list)

to Richard, count of Poitou, beginning 'A [multis] requisitus et multociens', and the revised version of the dedication to King John of England (ff. 58v-106v);Philomela, the poem on the voices of birds and beasts ascribed to Ovid in the 16th-century

• Detail of a miniature of two episodes from a legend of the priest of Ulster and the wolf, in the lower margin; on the left, a priest talks to a wolf near a roaring fire; on the right, the priest follows the wolf., 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

• Detail of a miniature of three episodes from a legend of the priest of Ulster and the wolf, in the lower margin: the priest of Ulster approached by the wolf; the priest led by the wolf; and brought to its female partner to administer the viaticum., 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

• Detail of a miniature of the naked bearded woman of Limerick seated on a rock with a spindle, near the naked man-ox of Wicklow, who is being given a round object by another man., 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 the naked bearded woman of Limerick seated on a rock with a spindle, near the naked man-ox of Wicklow, who is being given a round object by another man., 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

• Detail of a miniature of a bird perched on a building, and a man with the tame falcon of Kildare killing prey; miniature of a scribe writing the miraculous Gospels of Kildare, 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

• Miniatures of a man kneeling by the crucified Christ at the Crucifix of Dublin, an archer who crossed the hedge of Brigid, blowing on her fire, and a man drinking from a river, 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

• Detail of miniatures of a man kneeling by the crucified Christ at the Crucifix of Dublin, an archer who crossed the hedge of Brigid, blowing on her fire, and a man drinking from a river, 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

• Calendar page for February, with the dedication of the church of St. Lawrence, Ludlow (the largest parish church in Shropshire): about half-way down the page, written in red ink at 13 February, is 'Dedicacion de la eglise seint Laurence de Lodelawe'., Miscellany, including a calendar, Psalter with prayers and Hours of the Virgin, imperfect, Bestiaire d'amour; Rules, and the Chronicle of Turpin (see Notes)

in Latin with initials in red (ff. 204-212v). John Clerk, grocer and apothecary to Edward IV, warden of the London Company of Grocers in 1467 and 1475: inscribed 'Iste liber constat John Clerk grocero apocethario regis Edwarde quarti post conquestum'