• Interlace initial 'P'(rincipium) with animal heads at the beginning of Bede's prose life of Cuthbert., Lives of Cuthbert in prose (ff. 2-42v) and verse (ff. 45-62v), with services for Cuthbert, Benedict and Guthlac with musical notation (ff. 43-44; 63-66)

acanthus foliage.Musical notation: Breton neumes, England (Christ Church – Canterbury ?), 11th century (ff. 43-44; 63-66v).St Cuthbert was a seventh-century, English Christian leader, renowned for his ascetic practices and the miracles attributed to him during his lifetime and posthumously. Born

• Interlace initials 'D'([omi]no' and 'M'(ulta) at the beginning of Bede's prologue to his verse Life of Cuthbert, addressing a priest named John, who was setting out on a pilgrimage to Rome., Lives of Cuthbert in prose (ff. 2-42v) and verse (ff. 45-62v), with services for Cuthbert, Benedict and Guthlac with musical notation (ff. 43-44; 63-66)

acanthus foliage.Musical notation: Breton neumes, England (Christ Church – Canterbury ?), 11th century (ff. 43-44; 63-66v).St Cuthbert was a seventh-century, English Christian leader, renowned for his ascetic practices and the miracles attributed to him during his lifetime and posthumously. Born

• Title page and interlace initial 'P'(rincipium) with animal heads and mask., Lives of Cuthbert in prose (ff. 2-42v) and verse (ff. 45-62v), with services for Cuthbert, Benedict and Guthlac with musical notation (ff. 43-44; 63-66)

acanthus foliage.Musical notation: Breton neumes, England (Christ Church – Canterbury ?), 11th century (ff. 43-44; 63-66v).St Cuthbert was a seventh-century, English Christian leader, renowned for his ascetic practices and the miracles attributed to him during his lifetime and posthumously. Born

• Coloured initials., Lives of Cuthbert in prose (ff. 2-42v) and verse (ff. 45-62v), with services for Cuthbert, Benedict and Guthlac with musical notation (ff. 43-44; 63-66)

neumes, England (Christ Church – Canterbury ?), 11th century (ff. 43-44; 63-66v).St Cuthbert was a seventh-century, English Christian leader, renowned for his ascetic practices and the miracles attributed to him during his lifetime and posthumously. Born in Northumbria around 635,

• Coloured and decorated initials., Lives of Cuthbert in prose (ff. 2-42v) and verse (ff. 45-62v), with services for Cuthbert, Benedict and Guthlac with musical notation (ff. 43-44; 63-66)

Breton neumes, England (Christ Church – Canterbury ?), 11th century (ff. 43-44; 63-66v).St Cuthbert was a seventh-century, English Christian leader, renowned for his ascetic practices and the miracles attributed to him during his lifetime and posthumously. Born in Northumbria around

• Diagram., Lives of Cuthbert in prose (ff. 2-42v) and verse (ff. 45-62v), with services for Cuthbert, Benedict and Guthlac with musical notation (ff. 43-44; 63-66)

neumes, England (Christ Church – Canterbury ?), 11th century (ff. 43-44; 63-66v).St Cuthbert was a seventh-century, English Christian leader, renowned for his ascetic practices and the miracles attributed to him during his lifetime and posthumously. Born in Northumbria around 635,

• Coloured initials with the hymns for vespers on the day for the commemoration of the birth of Cuthbert. The words of the songs are written in black, while the terms identifying them (such as 'a' for 'antiphon', 'pt' for 'psalm' or 'responsory') are written in red. Above each line, the music is written in Breton neumes., Lives of Cuthbert in prose (ff. 2-42v) and verse (ff. 45-62v), with services for Cuthbert, Benedict and Guthlac with musical notation (ff. 43-44; 63-66)

acanthus foliage.Musical notation: Breton neumes, England (Christ Church – Canterbury ?), 11th century (ff. 43-44; 63-66v).St Cuthbert was a seventh-century, English Christian leader, renowned for his ascetic practices and the miracles attributed to him during his lifetime and posthumously. Born

• Coloured initial 'I' in the will of King Alfred the Great in Anglo-Saxon, which contains material relating to the foundations of Winchester, and is the earliest English royal will (See ~The Making of England~ 1991)., Liber Vitae of Newminster and Hyde, with register, charters, customs, the will of Alfred the Great, benedictions and order of Mass, etc.

which contains material relating to the foundations of Winchester, and is the earliest English royal will (See ~The Making of England~ 1991). According to Wormald 1963, the manuscript was almost certainly kept on the high altar.This manuscript was formerly Stowe

• Coloured initial 'I' in the will of King Alfred the Great in Anglo-Saxon, which contains material relating to the foundations of Winchester, and is the earliest English royal will (See ~The Making of England~ 1991)., Liber Vitae of Newminster and Hyde, with register, charters, customs, the will of Alfred the Great, benedictions and order of Mass, etc.

which contains material relating to the foundations of Winchester, and is the earliest English royal will (See ~The Making of England~ 1991). According to Wormald 1963, the manuscript was almost certainly kept on the high altar.This manuscript was formerly Stowe

• Drawing of God over the circle of the world with two long trumpets issuing from his mouth (the breath of God), holding a scale, and the Holy Spirit over the waters, enclosed within a hemisphere, at the beginning of Genesis.

library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no . 7723).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Creation Canterbury England (Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Initial 'L'(iber) with interlace decoration and display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, and four medallions with saints holding books and a cross (Evangelists?), at the beginning of Matthew. The name of the manuscript's owner, Lord Lumley, is inscribed in the lower margin., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

collection became part of the Royal Library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Incipit page Eadwig [Eadui] Basan (fl. c.1020) (added confirmation of privileges) Eadui Basan Canterbury, Christ Church England,

• A charter of Cnut, in Anglo-Saxon (promulgated probably c. 1017, when Cnut became king of all England), addressed to Archbishop Lyfing (1013-1020), Godwin, bishop of Rochester, Ælmær, abbot of St Augustine's, Canterbury (1006-1022), and others, confirming the privileges of the church., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

collection became part of the Royal Library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Charter of Cnut Eadwig [Eadui] Basan (fl. c.1020) (added confirmation of privileges) Eadui Basan Canterbury, Christ Church

• Historiated initial 'T'(his) of Henry VII giving the manuscript to a group of monks, with full bar border with the arms of England., Quadripartite Indenture for Henry VII's Chapel

the Westminster palace after the dissolution of the monastery in 1540. Stored in the little study next to the king's old bed chamber: listed as 'Item a booke of Kynge Henry the viith his foundacion of his chappell at Westminster'

• Detail of an historiated initial 'T'(his) of Henry VII giving the manuscript to a group of monks, with full bar border with the arms of England., Quadripartite Indenture for Henry VII's Chapel

the Westminster palace after the dissolution of the monastery in 1540. Stored in the little study next to the king's old bed chamber: listed as 'Item a booke of Kynge Henry the viith his foundacion of his chappell at Westminster'

• Detail of a drawing of God over the circle of the world with two long trumpets issuing from his mouth (the breath of God), holding a scale, and the Holy Spirit over the waters, enclosed within a hemisphere, at the beginning of Genesis.

library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no . 7723).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Creation Canterbury England (Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Coloured initials 'I'(ncipit) and 'S' (acre) in an account of the building of the old abbey in Winchester from its intended establishment by Alfred the Great to its consecration by Dunstan., Liber Vitae of Newminster and Hyde, with register, charters, customs, the will of Alfred the Great, benedictions and order of Mass, etc.

an account of the building of the old abbey in Winchester from its intended establishment by Alfred the Great to its consecration by Dunstan. According to Wormald 1963, the manuscript was almost certainly kept on the high altar.This manuscript was

• Decorated initials 'Q'(uattuor) and 'B'(ello) at the beginning of the text., Antiquitates iudaicae

initials in red and one in blue (ff. 49, 53, 64, 66). Rubrics in red. Antiquitates iudaicae The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): probably entered the collection during the reign of Henry VIII and was stored at Hampton

• Text page with initials and rubrics., De unitate sanctae trinitatis (f.1); De differentiis, Etymologiae (incomplete), De miraculis Christi

be identified with no. 23 in Patrick Young's 1622 catalogue of the cathedral library, Salisbury (see Ker 1964).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): in the catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae

• Text page with intials 'A' and 'P' and rubric in red., Epistolae, De obitu Theodosii, De Nabuthae

(some oxidised). Epistolae, De obitu Theodosii, De Nabuthae The cathedral church of St Mary, Salisbury: (see Ker 1987).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): in the catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae

• Coloured initial 'R'(everentissimis)., De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses

Coloured initial 'R'(everentissimis). OldEnglish and Latin glosses in the same hand as the text. The same scribe may have copied Trinity College 1475 (see Bishop 1963).All but 43 of the glosses occur also in Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale 1650 (see