• Historiated initial 'O' of Romauld enthroned with a bishop saint (probably Augustine) and monastic saints John Gualbert (top right), Maurus and Placidus in Camaldolese habits., Cutting from a Gradual

a bishop saint (probably Augustine) and monastic saints John Gualbert (top right), Maurus and Placidus in Camaldolese habits. Italian cutting.The present initial is boxed with Add. 37472, ff. 1-2, 4-7. To see this initial in the Manuscripts Reading Room order

• Coloured initials with pen-flourished decoration and music staves., Fragments of a leaf from an early 14th century English Missal containing the Mass for the 5th and 6th Sunday after Pentecost

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

• Illuminated headpiece with foliate decoration and initial at the beginning of John., Four Gospels and Hebrews 12:17-13:25, imperfect (see notes), adapted for liturgical use

and initial at the beginning of John. The volume of which this manuscript was originally a part also contained Metz, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 4 (destroyed in 1944), which comprised Acts, Catholic and Pauline Epistles, and Hebrews 1:1-12:16. Pink silk endpapers

• Decorated puzzle initial 'Q'(uadam) of the first book of Gregory's Dialogues, with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, and and pen-flourished border., Dialogues, with alphabetical index

verso) and price ‘25 Gs' (f. 134). ? Price '3: 3: 0' inscribed in ink, f. 133v, lower left corner).? John Brand (b. 1744, d. 1806), antiquary and topographer (inscribed in pencil ‘Gregory the 1st Dialogues, Compleat, Wrote about/ Anno

• Detail of a drawing of an author portrait of Aldhelm., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus Added fragment of an ecclesiastical writ dated in 540, 16th century (f. 1). John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 1); listed

• Decorated initial with anthropomorphic design., Gospel Lectionary

Musical notation (ecphonetic).Contents:Daily readings in John (ff. 1-65v);Saturday-Sunday readings in Matthew (ff. 66v-103);Saturday-Sunday readings in Luke (ff. 104-143);Saturday-Sunday readings in Mark (ff. 143v-187);Holy Week readings (ff. 187v-245v);Synaxarion (ff. 246-359).f. 66 is a blank leaf.The portrait of Luke has been misbound;

• Evangelist portrait of Matthew as a scribe, in colours and gold., Gospel Lectionary

colours and gold. Musical notation (ecphonetic).Contents:Daily readings in John (ff. 1-65v);Saturday-Sunday readings in Matthew (ff. 66v-103);Saturday-Sunday readings in Luke (ff. 104-143);Saturday-Sunday readings in Mark (ff. 143v-187);Holy Week readings (ff. 187v-245v);Synaxarion (ff. 246-359).f. 66 is a blank leaf.The portrait of Luke

• Headpiece with geometric and foliate decoration and inscribed with title in coloured display capitals, and decorated initial 'T'., Gospel Lectionary, imperfect

Headpiece with geometric and foliate decoration and inscribed with title in coloured display capitals, and decorated initial 'T'. Missing leaves at the beginning and after ff. 1, 23, 36, 135, 197, 219.Pericopes arranged according to the ecclesiastical calendar. Headpieces

• Detail of a historiated initial 'Y'(maginum) of an altar with statues of the Crucifixion with Mary and John, with the instruction for the illuminator reading 'Fia[n]t ymagi[n]es sup[er] / altare', next to the initial., Omne Bonum (Jacob-Zacharias)

altar with statues of the Crucifixion with Mary and John, with the instruction for the illuminator reading 'Fia[n]t ymagi[n]es sup[er] / altare', next to the initial. The only known, and probably autograph copy of the Omne Bonum of James le

• Four miniatures: 1. the Crucifixion with Mary and John; 2. the Deposition; 3. the Entombment; 4. the Descent into Limbo., Omne Bonum (Absolucio-Circumcisio)

Crucifixion with Mary and John; 2. the Deposition; 3. the Entombment; 4. the Descent into Limbo. The only known, and probably autograph copy of the Omne Bonum of James le Palmer, being a general encyclopaedia arranged in alphabetical order. Bound

• Historiated initial 'E' of Christ in Majesty, his robes covered with the words 'Rex Regum', surrounded by the busts of twelve saints including John the Baptist, Jerome, and a Bishop (lower miniature)., Cutting from a choir book

'Rex Regum', surrounded by the busts of twelve saints including John the Baptist, Jerome, and a bishop, with foliate extension of acanthus leaves and bezants. Cutting from a choir book John Matthew Gutch (b. 1776, d. 1861), journalist and author:

• Miniature of a standing John Chrysostom., Leitourgikon (containing the texts needed by the celebrant at the Eucharist in the Orothodox church: Liturgies of John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, and the Presanctified)

a standing John Chrysostom. 2 full-page miniatures in colours and gold of standing saints (ff. 2v, 21v ). 3 large historiated headpieces in colours and gold (ff. 3, 22, 49). Large historiated initials in colours and gold (ff. 3, 6,

• Decorated Initial 'C'., Theological miscellany relating to the Great Schism and to the power of the pope and ecclesiastical councils, including Waleys's 'Communiloquium sive Summa collationum ad omne genus hominum' (ff. 1-127v), Trevet's 'De officio missae' (ff. 128-155), Pierre d'Ailly's 'Tractatus super reformatione ecclesiae' (ff. 167-173v), Fakenham's 'Determinatio de sedando schismate' and 'Conclusiones' (ff. 188-196, 196-196v), and texts relating to the Council of Basel of 1432 (ff. 156-166, 173, 175v)

manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initial and border John Gobych John Gobych John Waleys (index John of Wales, John Wallensis, Johannes Vallensis), Nicholas Trevet (index Nicholaus Trevet), Pierre d'Ailly (index Petrus Aliacensis, Petrus

• Initial 'C'(um) on a gold ground, with a hybrid creature in the bowl of the letter and the ownership inscription of Fountains abbey in the upper margin., Homilies for Sundays, with table of contents (vol 1, ff. 2-12)

vol. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Illuminated initial John of Munkgate, clerk of York. John of Munkgate John of Abbeville, and others Fountains abbey England, N. (Fountains abbey)

• Detail of initial 'C'(um) on a gold ground, with a hybrid creature in the bowl of the letter., Homilies for Sundays, with table of contents (vol 1, ff. 2-12)

by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Detail of iIlluminated initial John of Munkgate, clerk of York. John of Munkgate John of Abbeville, and others Fountains abbey England, N. (Fountains abbey)

• Inscriptions., Homilies for Sundays, with table of contents (vol 1, ff. 2-12)

1, vol. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Inscriptions John of Munkgate, clerk of York. John of Munkgate John of Abbeville, and others Fountains abbey England, N. (Fountains abbey)

• Text page., Homilies for Sundays, with table of contents (vol 1, ff. 2-12)

1, vol. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Text John of Munkgate, clerk of York. John of Munkgate John of Abbeville, and others Fountains abbey England, N. (Fountains abbey)

• Decorated initial., Homilies for Sundays, with table of contents (vol 1, ff. 2-12)

vol. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Decorated initial John of Munkgate, clerk of York. John of Munkgate John of Abbeville, and others Fountains abbey England, N. (Fountains abbey)

• Inscriptions., Homilies for Sundays, with table of contents (vol 1, ff. 2-12)

1, vol. 2).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. Inscriptions John of Munkgate, clerk of York. John of Munkgate John of Abbeville, and others Fountains abbey England, N. (Fountains abbey)

• Historiated initial 'I'(ohan) of John II the Good, king of France, with a shield bearing the royal arms of France in the margin, at the beginning of the collection of documents relating to the Peace of Brétigny., Collection of treaties

documents relating to the Peace of Brétigny in the name of John the Good, king of France, all bearing the date 24 October 1360, with the ratification by king John of the treaty in London in 1362, followed by the