• Zoomorphic word 'IN' with bird heads and interlace, at the beginning of John., Gospels, with the Epistle to Damasus, Canon tables, and prefaces, imperfect

beginning of John. This manuscript is part of the 'Irish-Northumbrian' group with the sigla 'DELQR', and is designed 'E': see Marsden 1999 p. 290 and n. 25. 2 full page miniatures of Evangelist portraits of Mark and John (ff. 45v,

• Decorated initial 'F'(rater) and display capitals at the beginning of the general prologue., Old Testament with prologues, Vol. I: Genesis-Nehemiah

prologues, Vol. I: Genesis-Nehemiah Unidentified contemporary readers: with numerous marginal annotations, often in red ink, especially in vol. II.? Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: perhaps his sale 6 April 1807, lot 1102,

• Decorated initial 'I'(n) and display script at the beginning of Genesis., Old Testament with prologues, Vol. I: Genesis-Nehemiah

prologues, Vol. I: Genesis-Nehemiah Unidentified contemporary readers: with numerous marginal annotations, often in red ink, especially in vol. II.? Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: perhaps his sale 6 April 1807, lot 1102,

• 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,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1, p. 2. Hanna, R. 2002. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts of St. John ’ s College, Oxford , Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 7-8. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

a crowke and thomas'- f. 109r. Perhaps Sir Thomas Ragland, originally of Carnlwdd in Llanarvan, Glamorganshire eldest son of Sir John Ragland of Carnlwdd knighted in 1513 and lord of Redwick, Monmouthshire in 1520. Hill 1963, p. 209. F. 47r

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

erased fifteenth-century inscription : '...Nicholas cum aliis ... in gallico'; on f. 54r in the bottom margin is another name, John, also erased (Duncan and Connolly 2003, p. xvii, and Mooney 1995, p. 12). Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University