• Text pages with rubrics and initials with colour wash., Extracts from the Gospels and prayers ('The Book of Nunnaminster') (external link no longer available)

Text pages with rubrics and initials with colour wash. One of a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks of the "Tiberius" group, the others being Harley 7653, and Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Ll.1.10 (Book of Cerne). All, except Cerne, exhibit

• Detail of decorated initial., Miscellany, including a calendar and astrological texts, including Roger's Hereford tables (ff. 77-87); excerpts from William of Conches's Dragmaticon philosophiae, and Daniel of Morley's Liber de naturis inferiorum et superiorum (external link no longer available)

1581: 'W(illia)m Vallans oweth mee 1581' (f. 1).Inscribed with a library list(?); including Arthus Gelius Frantinus, Valerius Maximus, Alexander Nequam, John of Salisbury, and others (f. 1v).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of

• Detail of decorated initial., Miscellany, including a calendar and astrological texts, including Roger's Hereford tables (ff. 77-87); excerpts from William of Conches's Dragmaticon philosophiae, and Daniel of Morley's Liber de naturis inferiorum et superiorum (external link no longer available)

1581: 'W(illia)m Vallans oweth mee 1581' (f. 1).Inscribed with a library list(?); including Arthus Gelius Frantinus, Valerius Maximus, Alexander Nequam, John of Salisbury, and others (f. 1v).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of

• Diagrams., Miscellany, including a calendar and astrological texts, including Roger's Hereford tables (ff. 77-87); excerpts from William of Conches's Dragmaticon philosophiae, and Daniel of Morley's Liber de naturis inferiorum et superiorum (external link no longer available)

1581: 'W(illia)m Vallans oweth mee 1581' (f. 1).Inscribed with a library list(?); including Arthus Gelius Frantinus, Valerius Maximus, Alexander Nequam, John of Salisbury, and others (f. 1v).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of

• Diagram., Miscellany, including a calendar and astrological texts, including Roger's Hereford tables (ff. 77-87); excerpts from William of Conches's Dragmaticon philosophiae, and Daniel of Morley's Liber de naturis inferiorum et superiorum (external link no longer available)

1581: 'W(illia)m Vallans oweth mee 1581' (f. 1).Inscribed with a library list(?); including Arthus Gelius Frantinus, Valerius Maximus, Alexander Nequam, John of Salisbury, and others (f. 1v).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of

• Drawing of God over the circle of the world with two long trumpets issuing from his mouth (the breath of God), holding a scale, and the Holy Spirit over the waters, enclosed within a hemisphere, at the beginning of Genesis. (external link no longer available)

Drawing of God over the circle of the world with two long trumpets issuing from his mouth (the breath of God), holding a scale, and the Holy Spirit over the waters, enclosed within a hemisphere, at the beginning of

• Inhabited initial 'D'(ivinus) with a dog, in gold and colours., Theological miscellany, including Goselin's (index: Gocelinus, Jocelyn) Life of Augustine and other saints' lives (see Notes) (external link no longer available)

testimonio bonorum virorum inspexi et iterato decentius in hoc loco coalltum anno gratie m. cc. lix mense maii' (f. 136v).Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: inscription that it belonged to him with the date 20 March, 1665

• Inhabited initial 'R'(egu) with a dragon, in gold and colours., Theological miscellany, including Goselin's (index: Gocelinus, Jocelyn) Life of Augustine and other saints' lives (see Notes) (external link no longer available)

testimonio bonorum virorum inspexi et iterato decentius in hoc loco coalltum anno gratie m. cc. lix mense maii' (f. 136v).Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: inscription that it belonged to him with the date 20 March, 1665

• Large decorated initial 'P'(oentissimus) in colours and gold with foliate decoration and acanthus leaves., Theological miscellany, including Goselin's (index: Gocelinus, Jocelyn) Life of Augustine and other saints' lives (see Notes) (external link no longer available)

testimonio bonorum virorum inspexi et iterato decentius in hoc loco coalltum anno gratie m. cc. lix mense maii' (f. 136v).Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: inscription that it belonged to him with the date 20 March, 1665

• Miniature of the Crucifixion, with Mary and John, and personifications of the sun (Sol) and moon (Luna)., Gospels, with canon tables, chapter lists, and lections (external link no longer available)

Crucifixion, with Mary and John, and personifications of the sun (Sol) and moon (Luna). There is a close connection between this manuscript and others from Echternach (see Boeckler 1933, pp. 44-45), e.g. British Library Egerton 608, and Paris, BN, lat.

• Initial 'L'(iber) with interlace decoration and display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, and four medallions with saints holding books and a cross (Evangelists?), at the beginning of Matthew. The name of the manuscript's owner, Lord Lumley, is inscribed in the lower margin., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels') (external link no longer available)

Initial 'L'(iber) with interlace decoration and display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, and four medallions with saints holding books and a cross (Evangelists?), at the beginning of Matthew. The

• A charter of Cnut, in Anglo-Saxon (promulgated probably c. 1017, when Cnut became king of all England), addressed to Archbishop Lyfing (1013-1020), Godwin, bishop of Rochester, Ælmær, abbot of St Augustine's, Canterbury (1006-1022), and others, confirming the privileges of the church., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels') (external link no longer available)

A charter of Cnut, in Anglo-Saxon (promulgated probably c. 1017, when Cnut became king of all England), addressed to Archbishop Lyfing (1013-1020), Godwin, bishop of Rochester, Ælmær, abbot of St Augustine's, Canterbury (1006-1022), and others, confirming the privileges of

• Detail of a drawing of God over the circle of the world with two long trumpets issuing from his mouth (the breath of God), holding a scale, and the Holy Spirit over the waters, enclosed within a hemisphere, at the beginning of Genesis. (external link no longer available)

Detail of a drawing of God over the circle of the world with two long trumpets issuing from his mouth (the breath of God), holding a scale, and the Holy Spirit over the waters, enclosed within a hemisphere, at

• Zoomorphic initial 'I'(ncipit) with display script, at the beginning of the preface of the Prognosticon futuri saeculi of Julian of Toledo., Prognosticon futuri saeculi; Aenigmata (external link no longer available)

as 'Libri pronosticorum iiº. In altero sunt enigmata sancti Aldelmi vetusti' (see Medieval Libraries of Great Britain 1996); noted by John Leland in his list of books in Glastonbury abbey, before 1533, no. 24 (see Carley 1986), and ~Joannis Lelandi

• Zoomorphic initial 'I'(ndicii) with display script, at the beginning of book 3 of the Prognosticon futuri saeculi of Julian of Toledo., Prognosticon futuri saeculi; Aenigmata (external link no longer available)

as 'Libri pronosticorum iiº. In altero sunt enigmata sancti Aldelmi vetusti' (see Medieval Libraries of Great Britain 1996); noted by John Leland in his list of books in Glastonbury abbey, before 1533, no. 24 (see Carley 1986), and ~Joannis Lelandi

• Detail of a drawing of Pachomius receiving the tables from an angel., Psalter and prayers ('The Eadui Psalter', 'The Arundel Psalter') (external link no longer available)

Detail of a drawing of Pachomius receiving the tables from an angel. The Psalms text was emended to conform to the ~Gallicanum~ version in the 12th century.Includes a Christ Church calendar (ff. 2-7v).f. 1 is a 13th-century text with

• Detail of a drawing of monks., Psalter and prayers ('The Eadui Psalter', 'The Arundel Psalter') (external link no longer available)

Detail of a drawing of monks. The Psalms text was emended to conform to the ~Gallicanum~ version in the 12th century.Includes a Christ Church calendar (ff. 2-7v).f. 1 is a 13th-century text with initials in green, red, and red

• Detail of illuminated initial and border., Psalter and prayers ('The Eadui Psalter', 'The Arundel Psalter') (external link no longer available)

Detail of illuminated initial and border. The Psalms text was emended to conform to the ~Gallicanum~ version in the 12th century.Includes a Christ Church calendar (ff. 2-7v).f. 1 is a 13th-century text with initials in green, red, and red

• Detail of coloured initials., Psalter and prayers ('The Eadui Psalter', 'The Arundel Psalter') (external link no longer available)

Detail of coloured initials. The Psalms text was emended to conform to the ~Gallicanum~ version in the 12th century.Includes a Christ Church calendar (ff. 2-7v).f. 1 is a 13th-century text with initials in green, red, and red with green

• Detail of historiated initial of the killing of Goliath., Psalter and prayers ('The Eadui Psalter', 'The Arundel Psalter') (external link no longer available)

Detail of historiated initial of the killing of Goliath. The Psalms text was emended to conform to the ~Gallicanum~ version in the 12th century.Includes a Christ Church calendar (ff. 2-7v).f. 1 is a 13th-century text with initials in green,