• 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

• Decorated initial 'P'(recedente) at the beginning of book 8 of the Moralia in Job., Job, and the Moralia in Job

'Moralia eiusdem in duobus voluminibus' in the Rochester catalogue of 1202 (see Royal 5 B XIII, f. 2r).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 352' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uam) with a fish, at the beginning of part 3 of the Moralia in Job., Job, and the Moralia in Job

'Moralia eiusdem in duobus voluminibus' in the Rochester catalogue of 1202 (see Royal 5 B XIII, f. 2r).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 352' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Initial 'I'(n principio) with the eagle, symbol of John in a medallion, at the beginning of John., Gospel of John; Augustine, Tractatus in Evangelium Iohannis

upper margins of each folio, 14th century (f. 1).Red seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 1). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 50' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Foliate initial 'P'(aulus) with dragons, and display script, at the of the Commentary on the Pauline Epistles of Florus of Lyon, and in the lower margin, the typical (but partially erased) Rochester ownership inscription, naming Baldwin, archbishop of Canterbury from 1184 to 1190., Commentary on the Pauline Epistles

the catalogue of the Rochester library of 1202, no. 13 (see Royal 5 B XII, f. 2). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 61' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Detail of a foliate initial 'V'(ir), at the beginning of Job., Job, and the Moralia in Job

'Moralia eiusdem in duobus voluminibus' in the Rochester catalogue of 1202 (see Royal 5 B XIII, f. 2r).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 352' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Detail of a zoomorphic initial 'I'(nter) formed of dragons and interlaced foliate pattern, at the beginning of part 1 of the Moralia in Job., Job, and the Moralia in Job

'Moralia eiusdem in duobus voluminibus' in the Rochester catalogue of 1202 (see Royal 5 B XIII, f. 2r).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 352' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Detail of a zoomorphic initial 'S'(ervata) formed of a dog, with an interlaced decoration, at the beginning of part 2 of the Moralia in Job., Job, and the Moralia in Job

'Moralia eiusdem in duobus voluminibus' in the Rochester catalogue of 1202 (see Royal 5 B XIII, f. 2r).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 352' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'V'(eteris) and rubric., De institutis coenobiorum

91). Silvester, prior of St Andrew, Rochester (c. 1177): inscribed 'Liber de Claustro Roffens[i] Silvestri prioris' (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 749'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• Decorated initial 'D'(uplici) and coloured initials., De institutis coenobiorum

91). Silvester, prior of St Andrew, Rochester (c. 1177): inscribed 'Liber de Claustro Roffens[i] Silvestri prioris' (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 749'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• Text pages with large and small coloured initials and numbers., Poeticon astronomicon, Description of the constellations; In Somnium Scipionis

of 1122/3 (p. 127) and 1202 (no. 92). Inscribed 'Liber de Claustro Roffens[i] per G. cellerarium' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 410'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• Historiated initial 'I'(n principio) of the days of Creation, at the beginning of book 1., Antiquitates iudaicae

'Hic est lib[er] s[an]c[t]I Alb[a]ni que[m] q[ui] abstulerit aut titulu[m] delev[er]it anathema sit. Am[en]', 12th-13th century (f.1). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1158' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'S'(osius) with foliate decoration and two lions., Antiquitates iudaicae (books XV-XX), De bello iudaico

York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii), 16th century (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 394' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Detail of an historiated initial 'I'(n principio) of the days of Creation, at the beginning of book 1., Antiquitates iudaicae

'Hic est lib[er] s[an]c[t]I Alb[a]ni que[m] q[ui] abstulerit aut titulu[m] delev[er]it anathema sit. Am[en]', 12th-13th century (f.1). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1158' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after