• Illuminated initial 'D'(ogmate), at the beginning of the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

39 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii), 16th century (f. 2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Decorated initial 'N'(otum) at the beginning of book 6 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

39 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii), 16th century (f. 2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Inhabited initial 'S'(i) with two lions, at the beginning of the Policraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

39 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii), 16th century (f. 2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Puzzle initial 'B'(eatissimi) with pen-flourishing and a partial border at the beginning of Book 2., Doctrinale fidei ecclesiae, Books 1 and 2

Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71 (f. 5v) and in the 1698

• Detail of a decorated initial 'B'(eatus) with foliated and interlace decoration, and animal heads and an animal mask at the beginning of Psalm 1, with the Old English gloss erased and corrected, visible in darker ink., Psalter, in the Gallican version, and canticles (ff. 168v-180v) with continuous English glosses, imperfect

foliated and interlace decoration, and animal heads and an animal mask at the beginning of Psalm 1, with the OldEnglish gloss erased and corrected, visible in darker ink. Added marginal notated incipits of Psalms.Musical notation: late Anglo-Saxon neumes on

• Text page with coloured initials., Gemma animae sive De divinis officis

with an inscription reading 'Indentura Joh[an]is Bacher[i] firmar[i] de Strode in / obligac[i]one ad ...' (f. i verso).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 359' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a hair-covered Mary of Egypt feeding a lion, a bear and a stag., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a blue-faced grotesque, hunched, with a man standing on his shoulders, from Book 1 of the Decretals., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Coloured initials., Gemma animae sive De divinis officis

with an inscription reading 'Indentura Joh[an]is Bacher[i] firmar[i] de Strode in / obligac[i]one ad ...' (f. i verso).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 359' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Text page with coloured initials, with a partially erased inscription, reading 'Hic est liber [erased] et q[u]icu[m]q[ue] furat[us] fuerit hunc libru[m] / anatematizat[us] est et cu[m] daton et Abiron co[m]mendat[us] est. Fiat, Fiat, Amen,' in the lower margin.', Gemma animae sive De divinis officis

with an inscription reading 'Indentura Joh[an]is Bacher[i] firmar[i] de Strode in / obligac[i]one ad ...' (f. i verso).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 359' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Zoomorphic initial 'A'(eterni) formed of two dragons interlaced with two other animals, at the beginning of the text; with an ownership inscription of he cathedral priory of St. Andrew, Rochester, reading 'Liber de claust[r]o Roffens[i] H.mo[nachi]', in the lower margin., Gemma animae sive De divinis officis

with an inscription reading 'Indentura Joh[an]is Bacher[i] firmar[i] de Strode in / obligac[i]one ad ...' (f. i verso).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 359' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Flyleaf with ownership inscription of the Augustinian monastery of Bristol and contents list., De vita contemplativa (f. 3); Sermones (f. 58); Tractatus de obedientia (f. 59); Sermones (f. 61); Homiliae (f. 66v); De tribus habitaculis animae (f. 81v); Anonymous commentary on the Psalms (f. 86v)

Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71 (f. 4) and in the 1698

• Text page with initial 'D'(iu) and rubric at the beginning of the prologue., De vita contemplativa (f. 3); Sermones (f. 58); Tractatus de obedientia (f. 59); Sermones (f. 61); Homiliae (f. 66v); De tribus habitaculis animae (f. 81v); Anonymous commentary on the Psalms (f. 86v)

Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71 (f. 4) and in the 1698

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul holding a scroll with the inscription 'Ad Timotheu[m]', at the beginning of 1Timothy, and an illuminated initial 'P'(aulus) at the beginning of the gloss., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

pen-flourishing in blue. Gloss on the Pauline Epistles Added chapter numbers, 14th-century English hand.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard France, N. France, Central or N. (Paris?)

• Decorated initial 'F'., Theological treatises

Librarian to King James I~, ed. by J. Atkins and N. R. Ker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944).Corrections in an English hand of the 10th century (e.g., f. 80v).Press-mark R/cxcii altered to R/xxvii in a 14th-century hand (f. 100v). John

• Flyleaf with pressmarks and contents list., Theological treatises

Librarian to King James I~, ed. by J. Atkins and N. R. Ker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944).Corrections in an English hand of the 10th century (e.g., f. 80v).Press-mark R/cxcii altered to R/xxvii in a 14th-century hand (f. 100v). John

• Text page with rubric., Theological treatises

Librarian to King James I~, ed. by J. Atkins and N. R. Ker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944).Corrections in an English hand of the 10th century (e.g., f. 80v).Press-mark R/cxcii altered to R/xxvii in a 14th-century hand (f. 100v). John

• Decorated initial 'E' and display capitals., Theological treatises

Librarian to King James I~, ed. by J. Atkins and N. R. Ker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944).Corrections in an English hand of the 10th century (e.g., f. 80v).Press-mark R/cxcii altered to R/xxvii in a 14th-century hand (f. 100v). John

• Initial 'F' with spiral and interlace decoration., Theological treatises

Librarian to King James I~, ed. by J. Atkins and N. R. Ker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944).Corrections in an English hand of the 10th century (e.g., f. 80v).Press-mark R/cxcii altered to R/xxvii in a 14th-century hand (f. 100v). John

• Detail of a decorated initial 'D'(ixim)., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

press mark 'D VII' and title (f. 2); included in the 1389 catalogue.John Joscelin [Joscelyn] (b. 1529, d. 1603), OldEnglish scholar and Church of England clergyman, Archbishop Parker's secretary (with his annotations and supplements; see Tite, 1992, p. 117).?