• Coloured initials, and in the lower right corner a human-animal hybrid creature, perhaps intended to ornament the run-over word at the bottom of the column., Interpretaciones nominum Ebreorum (Interpretation of the Hebrew names)

list of 20 books bequeathed by Richard of Chester, canon of York (died 1347). [Possibly part I only].The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 and

• Initial with floral decoration. Coloured initials, line-fillers and paraphs. Added in the upper margin is the note 'Ex monasterio cestrie': From the monastery of Chester., Interpretaciones nominum Ebreorum (Interpretation of the Hebrew names)

list of 20 books bequeathed by Richard of Chester, canon of York (died 1347). [Possibly part I only].The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 and

• Detail of a miniature of the Greek and Trojan armies., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

and miniatures (35): 'en cest livre sont xii caiers et demy et xxxv histoirez', 15th century (f. 100v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): to be identified with 'La destruction de Troye' in the list of books at Richmond

• Detail of a miniature of the murder of Achilles., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

and miniatures (35): 'en cest livre sont xii caiers et demy et xxxv histoirez', 15th century (f. 100v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): to be identified with 'La destruction de Troye' in the list of books at Richmond

• Detail of a miniature of the theft of the Palladium., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

and miniatures (35): 'en cest livre sont xii caiers et demy et xxxv histoirez', 15th century (f. 100v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): to be identified with 'La destruction de Troye' in the list of books at Richmond

• List of the names of the bishops of the west Saxons, in both Latin and Old English, added as the last leaf of the manuscript., The Six Ages of the World (recto), and a list of the bishops of Winchester from Birinus to Walkelin (verso) 1070-1090

both Latin and OldEnglish, added as the last leaf of the manuscript. Unilluminated. The Six Ages of the World (recto), and a list of the bishops of Winchester from Birinus to Walkelin (verso) 1070-1090 ? The Old Minster, Winchester,

• Text page with coloured initials, Epistulae 1-123

Epistulae 1-123 The Benedictine Abbey of St Peter, Chertsey, Surrey: inscribed ' Constat mo[na]ste[ri]o de Certes[ia]' (f. 206v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1091'; included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71 (f.

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(ater) of Christ blessing and holding a book, at the beginning of the Pater Noster., Gospel of Matthew, with the Glossa ordinaria

with penwork decoration, in red or blue, throughout the gloss. Gospel of Matthew, with the Glossa ordinaria The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see [Edward Bernard],

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uatuor), at the beginning of Peter's the Chanter commentary., Diatessaron

brown (ff. 1, 2v, 3, 8v). Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Diatessaron The English Royal library: Westminster inventory number 'no. 1023' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory

• Decorated initial 'D'(e nativitate) at the beginning of the capitula to Romans, with added inscription in the upper margin; from left to right they are: a title and a press-mark characteristic of the Benedictine abbey of St. Werburgh, Chester; the ownership note 'Ex monasterio Cestrie' (i.e. from the monastery of Chester); the inventory number of the Old Royal library in the Upper Library at Westminster Palace ('No. 1098'); the present pressmark of the British Library ('4. E viij'), and below this the page number in the old catalogue ('p. 58'). ., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

the inventory number of the Old Royal library in the Upper Library at Westminster Palace ('No. 1098'); the present pressmark of the British Library ('4. E viij'), and below this the page number in the old catalogue ('p. 58'). .

• Zoomorphic initial 'I'(ncipit) with display script, at the beginning of the preface of the Prognosticon futuri saeculi of Julian of Toledo., Prognosticon futuri saeculi; Aenigmata

Prognosticon futuri saeculi, with interlinear Latin glosses and 1 OldEnglish gloss on f. 69 (ff. 1v-79v);Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne (c. 705-709), Aenigmata, with interlinear and marginal Latin and 75 OldEnglish glosses (ff. 79v-103v);Caelius Firmianus Symposius, 'Enigmata Simphosii' (ff.

• Zoomorphic initial 'I'(ndicii) with display script, at the beginning of book 3 of the Prognosticon futuri saeculi of Julian of Toledo., Prognosticon futuri saeculi; Aenigmata

Prognosticon futuri saeculi, with interlinear Latin glosses and 1 OldEnglish gloss on f. 69 (ff. 1v-79v);Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne (c. 705-709), Aenigmata, with interlinear and marginal Latin and 75 OldEnglish glosses (ff. 79v-103v);Caelius Firmianus Symposius, 'Enigmata Simphosii' (ff.

• Inhabited initials 'H'(ec sunt) with white lions, at the beginning of Deuteronomy., Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, with the Glossa Ordinaria and interlinear glosses

Maidestane (see Royal 5 B XIII, f. 2r).Added paper leaf containing accounts in Latin and English, late 15th century (f. 2r-2v).The Old Royal Library (The English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 515' (f. 1), included in the inventory of

• Historiated initial 'Q'(uoniam) of Gregory the Great writing, at the beginning of homily 1., Homiliae In Ezechielem, book 2, with Ezekiel 40: 1-47

no. 50 as 'Gregorii super Ezechielem in duobus voluminibus' (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996); and of 1202, no. 28 (see Royal 5 B XII, f. 2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 375' (f. 1),

• Text page of of the 'De Genesi ad litteram' of Augustine., De Genesi ad litteram

I, B VI, D V, 8 D XVI, Vide 5 B XII et IV', 16th-17th century (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 59' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Detail of an historiated initial 'M'(agnus) of Jacob's Dream?, with three angels., Enarrationes in Psalmos (Volume 3)

and in the catalogue of 1202, no. 6 as 'super psalterium in tribus magnis voluminibus' (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 81' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books

• Zoomorphic initial 'I'(ntenti) in the form of a dragon., Enarrationes in Psalmos (Volume 3)

and in the catalogue of 1202, no. 6 as 'super psalterium in tribus magnis voluminibus' (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 81' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books

• Detail of decorated initials 'C'(onqreute) and 'S'(iquis), with instructions for rubrics in the margin., Apparatus in quinque libros Decretalium

8 G I, which belonged to Michael de Mentmore, abbot of St. Albans (1335-1349), 14th century (f. 2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Innocentius super Decretales' on a slip of paper attached to f. 1v, Westminster

• Decorated initial 'D'(ici) at the beginning of the Enchiridion of Augustine., Enchiridion, De bono mortis, De corpore et sanguine Domini

no. 5, of the early 12th century, no 4, and of 1202, no. 9 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 516' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books

• Decorated initial 'E'(vangelium) with dragons and a human mask, at the beginning of sermons of Augustine., Sermones de verbis Domini et apostoli

sit liber iste, q[uod] W[ybarn]', c. 1467 (see a dated inscription in Royal 2 C I) (f. 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 809' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the