• Detail of an illuminated initial 'I'(n principio) with display script in gold, at the beginning of the Gospel of John., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Detail of a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, at the beginning of the Gospel of John., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Initial 'I'(nitium) with interlace decoration and display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' foliate border with two medallions with saints holding books (Evangelists?), at the beginning of Mark., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Note, in Anglo-Saxon, of the admission of Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, of Denmark, and of Norway, and his brother Harold into the confraternity, probably of Christ Church, Canterbury, certified by the names of brothers Ðorð, Kartoca, and Thuri., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Initial 'I'(n principio) with display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, and two medallions with saints holding books and a cross (Evangelists?), at the beginning of the Gospel of John., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Decorated initial 'L'(ocutus) at the beginning of Augustine's De disciplina christiana., De fide ad Donatum and De fide ad Petrum trinitatis; Sermo de utilitate agendi penitentiam, De disciplina christiana, and De decem cordis; Liber exhortationis; Liber ecclesiasticorum dogmatum

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6553.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Decorated initial 'O'(mi) at the beginning of the Liber exhortationis of Paulinus of Aquileia., De fide ad Donatum and De fide ad Petrum trinitatis; Sermo de utilitate agendi penitentiam, De disciplina christiana, and De decem cordis; Liber exhortationis; Liber ecclesiasticorum dogmatum

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6553.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Decorated initial 'D'(ominus) at the beginning of Augustine's De decem cordis., De fide ad Donatum and De fide ad Petrum trinitatis; Sermo de utilitate agendi penitentiam, De disciplina christiana, and De decem cordis; Liber exhortationis; Liber ecclesiasticorum dogmatum

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6553.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uam) at the beginning of Augustine's Sermo de utilitate agendi penitentiam., De fide ad Donatum and De fide ad Petrum trinitatis; Sermo de utilitate agendi penitentiam, De disciplina christiana, and De decem cordis; Liber exhortationis; Liber ecclesiasticorum dogmatum

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6553.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Text page., Leaf from Isidore's 'Differentiarum sive de proprietate sermonum', book II: 'De differentiis rerum', xviii-xxxix

the late 1080s (see Gullick 1998).f. 25 [part 12]:? Hew Herte, possibly identifiable with Hugh Herte (d. 1467), barber-surgeon in London: his name on the upper margin of f. 25, originally f. 107 in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS.

• Coloured initial and rubric in display capitals., End of 'Contra mendacium' followed by the beginning of 'De cura pro mortuis gerenda', cropped leaf

the late 1080s (see Gullick 1998).f. 25 [part 12]:? Hew Herte, possibly identifiable with Hugh Herte (d. 1467), barber-surgeon in London: his name on the upper margin of f. 25, originally f. 107 in New York, Academy of Medicine, MS.

• Coloured initials., Fragment from a Missal, on parchment, which was possibly a gift of bishop Leofric according to unpublished notes of Michael Gullick

unpublished notes): other fragments from the same manuscript can be found in Add. 62104, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. Liturg. e.38; London, Westminster Abbey, 36/17-19, and two flyleaves in Lincoln, Cathedral, V.5.11 (see Rankin 1984, Ker and Watson 1987, Gameson 1996).

• Coloured initials., Fragment from a text with extracts from Luke and Matthew, possibly a Lectionary, on parchment

unpublished notes): other fragments from the same manuscript can be found in Add. 62104, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. Liturg. e.38; London, Westminster Abbey, 36/17-19, and two flyleaves in Lincoln, Cathedral, V.5.11 (see Rankin 1984, Ker and Watson 1987, Gameson 1996).

• Initial 'P'(ost quam) with interlace decoration and clasps, and title in display capitals., Fragment from a Life of St Gertrud (?), on parchment

unpublished notes): other fragments from the same manuscript can be found in Add. 62104, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. Liturg. e.38; London, Westminster Abbey, 36/17-19, and two flyleaves in Lincoln, Cathedral, V.5.11 (see Rankin 1984, Ker and Watson 1987, Gameson 1996).

• Decorated initial 'S'(ummum) at the beginning of the Sententiae., Epistola, Sententiae (f. 4); Formula honestae vitae (f. 84); Admonitio ad filium spiritualem (f. 87v); De virtutibus et vitiis (f. 97)

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6518.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Initial 'O'(mnis) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the second book of the Sententiae., Epistola, Sententiae (f. 4); Formula honestae vitae (f. 84); Admonitio ad filium spiritualem (f. 87v); De virtutibus et vitiis (f. 97)

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6518.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Initial 'A'(udi) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the Admonitio., Epistola, Sententiae (f. 4); Formula honestae vitae (f. 84); Admonitio ad filium spiritualem (f. 87v); De virtutibus et vitiis (f. 97)

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6518.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Initial 'D'(ivinae) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the 3rd book of the Sententiae., Epistola, Sententiae (f. 4); Formula honestae vitae (f. 84); Admonitio ad filium spiritualem (f. 87v); De virtutibus et vitiis (f. 97)

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6518.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Text page with initials, marginal notes and ink drawing of a pitcher., De fide orthodoxa

(see: W. H. James Weale, ~Bookbindings and Rubbings of Bindings in the National Art Library, South Kensington Museum~, 2 vols (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1894), p. 222, no. 519.) The reference to this MS. of no. 498 in the same

• 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