• Foliate initial 'B'(eatus) with an animal mask, at the beginning of book 29., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

and of 1202, no. 24 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added grammatical notes, 12th century (f. 259).William Fressel, prior of Rochester (1509-1532): beginning of a charter promulgated by him (f. 260).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number

• Detail of a foliate initial 'B'(eatus) with an animal mask, at the beginning of book 29., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

and of 1202, no. 24 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added grammatical notes, 12th century (f. 259).William Fressel, prior of Rochester (1509-1532): beginning of a charter promulgated by him (f. 260).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number

• Detail of a decorated initial 'I'(n paradiso), at the beginning of book 31., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

and of 1202, no. 24 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added grammatical notes, 12th century (f. 259).William Fressel, prior of Rochester (1509-1532): beginning of a charter promulgated by him (f. 260).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number

• Detail of a decorated initial 'Q'(uia) of two lions' heads, at the beginning of book 35., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

and of 1202, no. 24 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added grammatical notes, 12th century (f. 259).William Fressel, prior of Rochester (1509-1532): beginning of a charter promulgated by him (f. 260).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number

• Detail of a text page., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

and of 1202, no. 24 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added grammatical notes, 12th century (f. 259).William Fressel, prior of Rochester (1509-1532): beginning of a charter promulgated by him (f. 260).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number

• Detail of a beginning of a charter of William Fressel, prior of Rochester (1509-1532)., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

and of 1202, no. 24 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added grammatical notes, 12th century (f. 259).William Fressel, prior of Rochester (1509-1532): beginning of a charter promulgated by him (f. 260).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number

• Detail of an 16th-century inscription., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

and of 1202, no. 24 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added grammatical notes, 12th century (f. 259).William Fressel, prior of Rochester (1509-1532): beginning of a charter promulgated by him (f. 260).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number

• Historiated initial 'F'(errum) of the Agnus Dei, at the beginning of the prologue to the Corrogationes Promethei of Alexander Nequam., Corrogationes Promethei; Hypomnesticon contra pelagianos et caelestianos; miscellaneous works of Augustine; sermons attributed to Caesarius

1).Added Lord's Prayer, in English in a pre-Wycliffite version (for the transcription, see David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library~ (London, 1734), p. 78), mid-14th century (f. 307).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster

• Historiated initial 'P'(refationem) of a knight on horseback piercing a dragon forming a letter, at the beginning of part 5., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

and of 1202, no. 24 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added grammatical notes, 12th century (f. 259).William Fressel, prior of Rochester (1509-1532): beginning of a charter promulgated by him (f. 260).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number

• Historiated initial 'P'(ost) with an eagle holding a book (the symbol of John?), at the beginning of part 6., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

and of 1202, no. 24 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added grammatical notes, 12th century (f. 259).William Fressel, prior of Rochester (1509-1532): beginning of a charter promulgated by him (f. 260).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number

• Historiated initial 'Q'(uo) of Job and his wife giving him bread, with a dragon forming the tail of the letter, at the beginning of book 17., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

and of 1202, no. 24 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added grammatical notes, 12th century (f. 259).William Fressel, prior of Rochester (1509-1532): beginning of a charter promulgated by him (f. 260).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number

• Historiated initial 'Q'(uis) of a saint, at the beginning of book 27., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

and of 1202, no. 24 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added grammatical notes, 12th century (f. 259).William Fressel, prior of Rochester (1509-1532): beginning of a charter promulgated by him (f. 260).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number

• Historiated initial 'D'(e moralibus) of Ambrose holding a crozier and a book, at the beginning of the De mysteriis of Ambrose., De mysteriis, De sacramentis; Sermones, Epistolae; De sacramentis ecclesiae

library catalogues of 1122/23, no. 44, and of 1202, no. 30 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added theological distinctions, 12th/13th century (ff. 126v, 127v).The Old Royal Library (the English royal library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 630' (f. 2), included in the

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with two griffins and a dragon, at the beginning of the Sermones of Ivo of Chartres., De mysteriis, De sacramentis; Sermones, Epistolae; De sacramentis ecclesiae

library catalogues of 1122/23, no. 44, and of 1202, no. 30 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added theological distinctions, 12th/13th century (ff. 126v, 127v).The Old Royal Library (the English royal library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 630' (f. 2), included in the

• Zoomorphic initial 'P'(salmus) with display script, at the beginning of Augustine's commentary to Psalm 50., Enarrationes in Psalmos (Volume 2)

and in the catalogue of 1202, no. 6 as 'super psalterium in tribus magnis voluminibus' (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 81' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books

• Text page with initials and rubrics., De vita contemplativa et activa

ed. by David M. Smith and Vera London (Cambridge: University Press, 1972-2001), I (p. 64), II (p. 62).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 694 '. Included in the inventory of books in the Upper

• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(eptemtrionalis) of a dragon., Historia Langobardorum, in six books, each preceded by a table of contents, added hymn on the preservation of St. Bertin's abbey at St. Omer from destruction by fire (ff. 71v-72) (index Historia Longobardorum)

14th century, 'historia longobardor[um], Liber Sci. Aug[ustini] Can[tuariensis], cum. A', and above, 'Di. x. Gra. ii' (f. ).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1136' (f. 2), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Added list of names, including sovereigns of England from William the Conqueror and English and Norman bishops and abbots., Confessiones, De heresibus

156 others, 12th century (f. 187).Added initials 'AB', 12th century (f. 186v).Added notes, 14th-15th century (ff. 184v-185, 187v-188).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 44' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'A'(postolica) at the beginning of the De conflictu vitiorum et virtutum of Ambrosius Autpertus., De conflictu vitiorum et virtutum, De compunctione cordis, Prognosticon futuri saeculi, De corpore et sanguine domini, with sermons and Vita S. Fursei

library catalogues of 1122/23, no. 39; and of 1202, no. 83 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added drawings of decorated initials, 12th century (ff. 161v-163v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 48' (f. 2), included in

• Decorated initial 'M'(agnus), at the beginning of the Confessiones of Augustine., Confessiones, De heresibus

156 others, 12th century (f. 187).Added initials 'AB', 12th century (f. 186v).Added notes, 14th-15th century (ff. 184v-185, 187v-188).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 44' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the