• Decorated initial 'S'(unt) at the beginning of the prologue to Augustine's De doctrina christiana., De doctrina christiana, De vera religione and Sermones de poenitentia (sermo 351); De poenitentibus (sermo 393)

(f. 167v).Reynold Goldston, inscribed with his name 'R. Goldston' (see Royal 5 B IV), 16th century (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 43' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Inhabited initial 'B'(eatissimo), with animals and grotesques, at the beginning of the Life of St. Gregory., Life of St Gregory

12th century (f. 1).Added marginal drawing of two human figures kissing (?), 12th century (f. 123). Added annotations in 14th-century English hand.The Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary, Worcester: included in Patrick Young's catalogue of the Worcester library, no. 36

• Foliate initial 'I'(n principio) at the beginning of Genesis., Historia scolastica, with glosses and the paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles; Liber exceptionum

'Huiusmodi fiebat una pars lapidis in quo plu[m]bum / inve[n]tum est et in plumbo v[er]sus p[re]dicti' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1335' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Text page with pen-flourished initials., Historia scolastica, with glosses and the paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles; Liber exceptionum

'Huiusmodi fiebat una pars lapidis in quo plu[m]bum / inve[n]tum est et in plumbo v[er]sus p[re]dicti' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1335' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Foliate initial 'T'(ertia) at the beginning of Leviticus., Historia scolastica, with glosses and the paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles; Liber exceptionum

'Huiusmodi fiebat una pars lapidis in quo plu[m]bum / inve[n]tum est et in plumbo v[er]sus p[re]dicti' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1335' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Text page with pen-flourished initials., Historia scolastica, with glosses and the paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles; Liber exceptionum

'Huiusmodi fiebat una pars lapidis in quo plu[m]bum / inve[n]tum est et in plumbo v[er]sus p[re]dicti' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1335' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Foliate initial 'I'(ncipit) at the beginning of 3 Kings., Historia scolastica, with glosses and the paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles; Liber exceptionum

'Huiusmodi fiebat una pars lapidis in quo plu[m]bum / inve[n]tum est et in plumbo v[er]sus p[re]dicti' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1335' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Foliate initial 'S'(equitur) at the beginning of Exodus., Historia scolastica, with glosses and the paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles; Liber exceptionum

'Huiusmodi fiebat una pars lapidis in quo plu[m]bum / inve[n]tum est et in plumbo v[er]sus p[re]dicti' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1335' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• 3 foliate initials 'R'(everentissimo), 'I'(meratorie) and 'I'(n principio), at the beginning of the Historia scolastica and the prologue to the Historia scolastica., Historia scolastica, with glosses and the paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles; Liber exceptionum

'Huiusmodi fiebat una pars lapidis in quo plu[m]bum / inve[n]tum est et in plumbo v[er]sus p[re]dicti' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1335' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• The first canon table with a zoomorphic decoration in the 'Trewhiddle Style'., Gospels, imperfect (the 'Royal Bible')

hand responsible for glossing the Vespasian Psalter, Cotton MS Vespasian A I, the oldest extant translation of Scripture into OldEnglish. 1 incipit page with miniature of an ox, the symbol of Luke, with God blessing, and an initial in

• Inhabited initial 'I'(gitur) with an animal mask., Historia scolastica, with glosses and the paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles; Liber exceptionum

'Huiusmodi fiebat una pars lapidis in quo plu[m]bum / inve[n]tum est et in plumbo v[er]sus p[re]dicti' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1335' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Puzzle initial 'P'(rimi) at the beginning of book 10 of the Liber exceptionum., Historia scolastica, with glosses and the paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles; Liber exceptionum

'Huiusmodi fiebat una pars lapidis in quo plu[m]bum / inve[n]tum est et in plumbo v[er]sus p[re]dicti' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1335' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Drawing of a diagram of the vision of Claudius Senator, and a drawing of a diagram of 'labarum Constantini.', Translation of Testamenta duodecim patriarcharum, and Suidas De probatione Virginitatis Beate Marie

'Huiusmodi fiebat una pars lapidis in quo plu[m]bum / inve[n]tum est et in plumbo v[er]sus p[re]dicti' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1335' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Text page at the beginning of Abbo of St-Germain's ~Bella Parisiacae urbis~, book 3, with red initial and highlights., Alcuin, De orthographia (ff.1-24v); Bede, De orthographia (ff. 24v-71); Bella Parisiacae urbis, book 3 (Ad clericos) (ff. 71v-84); unidentified smaller text with glossary material (ff. 84-86v); De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 4 (De arte dialectica) (f. 87-149); Glossaries to Greek and Latin grammar texts, including lists of grammatical and metrical terms and glosses to Juvenal (ff. 150-167v).

corrections and erasures between ff. 150-159. Folio 93v is blank. Marked change in parchment quality in quires xx-xxii. Two Latin-Old English glosses on f. 166. Bishop proposes that the scribe of Harley 3826 reappears in Lincoln, Cathedral Library MS. 182.

• Inscription recording the pledge of the book with three other manuscripts by John Kyrkby in the Guildford chest, Oxford, on 8 July 1468, for 30 shillings, reading 'Cau[ci]o m[agistr]i Joh. Kyrkby expo[si]ta i[n] cista de gilford An[n]o do[min]i m° cccc° lxviii° die m[en]sis julii / lib[er] Aug[ustin]i de t[r]initate 2° fo[lio] sine proemnis habent et h[abe]t 3 suppra 2°fo[lio] p[ro] d[om]i[n]o mune[r]e / 2° fo[lio] q[u]i malefac[er]e 2° fo[lio] 3 d[is]ti[n]ctio p[er] arti[cu]los et iacet p[ro] xxx s.'; and another inscription recording the plegde of the book on 11 February 1469, for 28 shillings, reading 'Cauci[o] Kyrkby ex[posi]ta a[nn]o d[omi]ni m° lxix ix die me[n]s[is] februarii et iacet p[ro] xxviii s.'; with an information added by the same hand, reading, 'in q[uod] p[ro] suppra[scrip]to s° folio distinct[i]o p[er] artic[u]los ... 2° fo[lio] et post pauca et d[omi]n[u]s W. Chycheley h[abe]t.', De Trinitate

post pauca et d[omi]n[u]s W. Chycheley h[abe]t' (f. 182v).Reynold Goldston, inscribed with his name, 16th century (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 82' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Puzzle initial 'I'(n principio) at the beginning of the text., 'Breviarium Bartholomei', with glosses and recipes by John Dee

of eye-sight, added in his hand, dated 1590 (ff. 302v-303). Added Latin medical terms translated into English: later hand (f. 303v).Possible traces of old ownership notes: under a parchment fragment with Latin text pasted onto the lower margin (f. 3)

• Inscription about the manuscript’s Canterbury provenance, with an Old Royal Library seal of a ship in the bottom right corner., Etymologiae

Canterbury provenance, with an Old Royal Library seal of a ship in the bottom right corner. Preceded by letters between Isidore and Braulio, bishop of Saragossa (ff. 2-3v). Initials in red, green, purple, or yellow, some with arabesque decoration (ff.

• Detail of the figures highlighted in green, in the chapter 'De figuris'., Etymologiae

(see [Edward Bernard], ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8603).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Figures Written probably by three scribes Isidore England

• Text page., Etymologiae

[Edward Bernard], ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8603).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page Written probably by three scribes Isidore England

• Text page with erasures and corrections in a different hand., Etymologiae

[Edward Bernard], ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8603).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page Written probably by three scribes Isidore England