• Coloured initial 'A'(postolica) at the beginning of Pseudo-Ambrose's De conflictu vitiorum atque virtutum., De conflictu vitiorum atque virtutum, Excerpta from Augustine and Ambrose

Joscelyn, (b. 1529, d.1603), OldEnglish scholar and Latin secretary to archbishop Matthew Parker, a note in his hand concerning Crusades extracted from Simeon of Durham and Henry of Huntingdon (f. 134).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): red

• Coloured initial 'M'(ulti) at the beginning of John Chrysostom's De muliere Chananaea., De muliere Chananaea, Miracula S. Letardi

Joscelyn, (b. 1529, d.1603), OldEnglish scholar and Latin secretary to archbishop Matthew Parker, a note in his hand concerning Crusades extracted from Simeon of Durham and Henry of Huntingdon (f. 134).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): red

• Detail of an historiated initial representing Ban falling from his horse, and the Lady of the Lake holding Lancelot as a baby., Lancelot-Grail

an English hand of the early 14th century. Notes in Latin and numerals in the same 14th-century hand, possibly relating to the collation of the manuscript, have been added on the last page (f. 367).The Old Royal Library (the English

• Detail of a miniature of the emperor Justinian, with a group of soldiers and scholars, one of whom holding a scroll with an inscription reading 'Bonus studens facit doctorem'; and a foliate initial 'I'(mperatoriam), at the beginning of book 1 of the Institutiones., Volumen parvum, with the glossa ordinaria

293v, 294).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Instituta cum li. Nouel' (f. 1).Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: notes in his hand (ff. 201v, 227v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Detail of a miniature of the emperor Justinian, and two plaintiffs holding money, with children, and a foliate initial 'S'(uperiori), at the beginning of book 2 of the Institutiones., Volumen parvum, with the glossa ordinaria

293v, 294).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Instituta cum li. Nouel' (f. 1).Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: notes in his hand (ff. 201v, 227v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Detail of a miniature of the emperor Justinian and two lawyers, one of whom pointing at a women with a child illustrating the hereditary law, with a foliate initial 'I'(ntestatus), at the beginning of book 3 of the Institutiones., Volumen parvum, with the glossa ordinaria

293v, 294).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Instituta cum li. Nouel' (f. 1).Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: notes in his hand (ff. 201v, 227v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Detail of a miniature of the emperor Justinian, a soldier, and a hanged man, with a foliate initial 'C'(um), at the beginning of book 4 of the Institutiones., Volumen parvum, with the glossa ordinaria

293v, 294).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Instituta cum li. Nouel' (f. 1).Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: notes in his hand (ff. 201v, 227v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Detail of a miniature of the emperor Justinian with two lawyers and a child holding a scroll with an inscription reading 'Iustitiam peto', and a foliate initial 'O'(cupatis), at the beginning of the Authenticum., Volumen parvum, with the glossa ordinaria

293v, 294).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Instituta cum li. Nouel' (f. 1).Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: notes in his hand (ff. 201v, 227v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Detail of a miniature of a king receiving homage, and two lawyers, with a foliate initial 'Q'(uia), at the beginning of the Libri feudorum., Volumen parvum, with the glossa ordinaria

293v, 294).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Instituta cum li. Nouel' (f. 1).Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: notes in his hand (ff. 201v, 227v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Detail of a miniature of the emperor Justinian and a kneeling man with a purse before him, with a lawyer and a soldier; and a foliate initial 'S'(i prius), at the beginning of book 10 of the Codex 'De iure fisci'., Volumen parvum, with the glossa ordinaria

293v, 294).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Instituta cum li. Nouel' (f. 1).Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: notes in his hand (ff. 201v, 227v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Detail of a miniature of the emperor Justinian receiving gold from a kneeling man, with two soldiers, and a lawyer standing before him; with a foliate initial 'N'(ullam), at the beginning of book 11 of the Codex, 'De tollenda lustralis auri collatione'., Volumen parvum, with the glossa ordinaria

293v, 294).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Instituta cum li. Nouel' (f. 1).Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: notes in his hand (ff. 201v, 227v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Detail of a miniature of the emperor Justinian with a group of lawyers before him, at the beginning of book 12 of the Codex, 'De dignitatibus'., Volumen parvum, with the glossa ordinaria

293v, 294).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Instituta cum li. Nouel' (f. 1).Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: notes in his hand (ff. 201v, 227v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Text page., Part of a lectionary

Text page. The flyleaves are part of a Latin lectionary in 10th-century English caroline minuscule (ff. 2, 3, 163-166).The contents include Latin word lists with English equivalents (ff. 4-66). Initials in red (oxidised) Part of a lectionary Samuell Compton and

• Flourished initial., Psalter, a metrical version (the Surtees Psalter version)

1843-1847. According to Muir, the author referred to an early Middle English interlinear gloss on the Vulgate, probably Northern, which was itself a modernised version of an OldEnglish glossed Psalter. One of six known manuscript copies. Full border in

• Puzzle intial 'D'(ixit) at the beginning of Psalm 52., Psalter, a metrical version (the Surtees Psalter version)

1843-1847. According to Muir, the author referred to an early Middle English interlinear gloss on the Vulgate, probably Northern, which was itself a modernised version of an OldEnglish glossed Psalter. One of six known manuscript copies. Full border in

• Puzzle initial 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of a metrical version of the Psalms in Middle English., The Psalms in English verse (the Surtees Society version), with parallel Latin, and Latin prayers

1843-1847. According to Muir, the author referred to an early Middle English interlinear gloss on the Vulgate, probably Northern, which was itself a modernised version of an OldEnglish glossed Psalter. One of six known manuscript copies. Large puzzle initials

• Pen-flourished initials 'N'(emo) and 'V'(isio), at the beginning of the prologue to Isaiah and of Isaiah., Bible

d[omi]ni / Millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo q[ui]nquqge/simo p[ri]mo. In profesto b[ea]ti Bernardi ab/batis. In domo clerico[rum] Zwollis' (f. 269). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'No. 978' (f. 1): acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Detail of the left-hand column with pen-flourished initials 'N'(on) and 'V'(erbum), at the beginning of the prologue to Minor Prophets and of Hosea., Bible

d[omi]ni / Millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo q[ui]nquqge/simo p[ri]mo. In profesto b[ea]ti Bernardi ab/batis. In domo clerico[rum] Zwollis' (f. 269). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'No. 978' (f. 1): acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Pen-flourished initial 'P'(aulus), at the beginning of Romans., Bible

d[omi]ni / Millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo q[ui]nquqge/simo p[ri]mo. In profesto b[ea]ti Bernardi ab/batis. In domo clerico[rum] Zwollis' (f. 269). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'No. 978' (f. 1): acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Illuminated initial 'F'(ive) with a full border with flowers, acanthus leaves branches, the royal arms of England and a gold portcullis with chains, the heraldic badge of the Beauforts., Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (imperfect)

with his mother's, Margaret Beaufort's (b. 1443, d.1509) heraldic badge, a portcullis with chains, which became his device.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number partially erased: 'no...'; included in the list of book at the Richmond