• Detail of an inhabited initial 'L'(ocutusque), with foliate motifs and a dragon, at the beginning of Numbers., Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, with the Glossa ordinaria and interlinear glosses, imperfect at the end

pentateuc. E. vi. m'. (f. 1v); a similar inscription occurs in Royal 4 A VII, also from Rochester.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 514' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul holding a scroll inscribed with the title of his Epistle ‘Ad Corinthos’, at the beginning of Second Corinthians., 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?)

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul enthroned, with a scroll reading ‘Ad Galatias’., 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?)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul enthroned, with a scroll reading ‘Ad Galatias’., 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?)

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul enthroned, with a scroll., 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?)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul enthroned, with a scroll., 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?)

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul enthroned, with a scroll reading ‘Ad Corinthios’, at the beginning of First Corinthians., 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?)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul enthroned, with a scroll reading ‘Ad Corinthios’., 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?)

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul holding a scroll inscribed with the title of his Epistle ‘Ad Corinthos’, at the beginning of Second Corinthians., 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?)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul holding a scroll inscribed with the title of his Epistle ‘Ad Corinthos’, at the beginning of Second Corinthians., 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?)

• Text page., 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. Text page Peter Lombard France, N. France, Central or N.

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul holding a scroll with the inscription 'Ad Timotheu[m]', at the beginning of 1 Timothy., 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?)

• Detail of inscription at the bottom of the folio., 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).?

• Detail of a drawing of a hybrid with the head of a woman, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish, within two concentric circles, preceding Horace's Ars Poetica., Ars Poetica, Sermones, Epistulae, and a Life of Horace, with glosses

scholar, recorded in lists in Harley 6018, f. 159v, and Additional 35213, ff. 34-34v (see Colin 1992). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 2); inscribed 'Codex Bibliothecae Regiae Jacobi'; included

• Drawing of a hybrid with the head of a woman, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish, within two concentric circles, preceding Horace's Ars Poetica., Ars Poetica, Sermones, Epistulae, and a Life of Horace, with glosses

scholar, recorded in lists in Harley 6018, f. 159v, and Additional 35213, ff. 34-34v (see Colin 1992). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 2); inscribed 'Codex Bibliothecae Regiae Jacobi'; included

• Decorated initial 'H'(umano), at the beginning of Horace's Ars Poetica, with two ownership inscriptions of Sir Robert Cotton, reading 'Robertus Cotton' at top and 'Robertus Cotton Bruceus' at bottom., Ars Poetica, Sermones, Epistulae, and a Life of Horace, with glosses

scholar, recorded in lists in Harley 6018, f. 159v, and Additional 35213, ff. 34-34v (see Colin 1992). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 2); inscribed 'Codex Bibliothecae Regiae Jacobi'; included

• Decorated initial 'A'(pud) at the beginning of the Commentary on Psalms., Commentary on Psalms

St. Mary and St. Benedict, Ramsey: inscribed on a pasted piece of parchment, 'Liber monasterii Rameseye' (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1289' (f. 2), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Inhabited initial 'I'(n principio) with lions, at the beginning of Diatessaron., Diatessaron (or Unum ex quatuor), with glosses

Longland, bishop of Lincoln and confessor of Henry VIII, Royal Appendix 69, f. 6v (see Carley 2000). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 895' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'B'(eatus), at the beginning of Psalm 1, and two initials 'P'(rimus) and 'A'(biit) with penwork extensions, at the beginning of gloss divisions, and a drawing of a hand in the margin., Psalter, glossed, with 5 Canticles

/ ut Deus ignoscat, et parcat lampadis ori./', end of the 12th century (f. 137).Erased inscription (f. 137).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 695' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Inhabited initial 'P'(aulus) with white lions interlaced with a foliate scroll and an attached portrait of Peter Lombard writing the first words of his commentary, 'hunc epistola[m] / s/cribit / ap[osto]l[us]s roma/nos'., Pauline Epistles, with the commentary of Peter Lombard

the commentary of Peter Lombard Added two indexes to homilies on the Pauline Epistles, 14th century (f. 213r-v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 189' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the