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British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

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Decorated initial 'D'(ixit) combined with a full foliate bar border including interlace at the beginning of Psalm 38., Psalter, imperfect

Hyde abbey in Winchester (on the veneration of these saints at Hyde abbey, see Edward Edwards, ~Liber monasterij de Hyda~, (London: Longman, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1866), pp. xxviii, xxxvii, lii, 82 etc.).Ruling in red.Including a calendar (ff. 1-5v), the

Large initial 'F'(orma) with pen-flourishing and penwork decoration including foliate motifs, at the beginning of Alexander Nequam's De naturis rerum; in the upper margin is a late-12th century ownership inscription from St Albans and in the lower margin is a leaf mark ('aj') in crayon., De naturis rerum

see ~English Benedictine Libraries: The Shorter Catalogues~, ed. by R. Sharpe and others, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: British Library, 1996), pp. 542-43. List of chapters added by a later 13th- or early 14th-century hand (f. 1v).

Two initials 'A'(lauda) and 'P'(ica) with some penwork decoration for text divisions in Alexander Nequam's De naturis rerum., De naturis rerum

Text page from Alexander Nequam's De naturis rerum; in the lower right corner are a leaf mark ('tiiij') and the later medieval foliation ('147') in crayon., De naturis rerum

Coloured initials at the beginning of an encapsulated world history called the 'Six Ages of the World'. The large letter 'B' halfway down the page begins a section on the origins of the British and Irish, together with a geographical description. It begins, 'The island of Britain is so called from one Brutus, a Roman consul.' Brutus was the fabled first king of Britain or Albion and, in later medieval romance literature, he became the basis of Layamon's 'Brut'., Epitome rei militaris (see Notes for a list of contents)

C. E. Wright, ~Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum~ (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 436, 242).f. 39v contains a pasted-on strip of parchment with 19th-century ? painted insects and

Text page of the end of 'The Cities of Britain' , including Leicester and ending with Wall-by-Lichfield, and the beginning of 'The Wonders of Britain'., Epitome rei militaris (see Notes for a list of contents)

Text page from a section in the Historia Britonum on the life of Patrick, a Christian Briton taken to pagan Ireland as a slave, to work as a swineherd. Patrick returned to Britain and embarked upon an intensive program of Bible study. The first full paragraph tells of Patrick's being sent to convert the Irish., Epitome rei militaris (see Notes for a list of contents)

Text page in three narrow columns, with one line for each year (abbreviated 'an' for 'annum'), most remaining blank. This is the first page of the annals, starting with the year 447. The first entry reads 'Days as dark as night,' followed by the alteration of the date of Easter by Pope Leo, the birth of Brigit and death of Patrick. In the third column, the long entry for 516 tells of Arthur's victory at the Battle of Badon, in which he 'carried the cross of Christ upon his shoulders for three days', meaning his shield bore a cross., Epitome rei militaris (see Notes for a list of contents)

Canon table with columns surmounted by foliate capitals., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

in Düsseldorf: bought the entire Graevius library in 1703 (see Clark 1891; Wright 1972).Giovanni Giacomo Zamboni (d. 1753), resident in London for the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (c. 1723-1753), friend of Michael Mattaire, the classical scholar and historian of printing: bought