• Historiated initial with the Adoration of the Magi at Sext in the Hours of the Virgin, with a hybrid creature in the lower margin., Psalter-Hours

228v). Line-fillers in gold, blue and red ink (some with fish or snake). Sketched peacock in margin (f. 249). Psalter-Hours Quires have been numbered in a post-medieval hand.The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• Decorated initial 'S'(e) with grotesques and foliate motif at the beginning of Cicero's 'De inventione'; next to it the St Alban's press-mark 'D.II.5.l'., De inventione (index Rhetorica)(ff. 1-47v); Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)(ff. 47v-85)

5th leaf of quires;quires frequently consist of 8 leaves). Quire marks ('iij' on f. 18v, 'c'-'e' on ff. 26v, 34v, 42v, "vii" and 'viij' on f. 58v, 'ix'-'x' on ff. 66v, 74v); in addition, several quires are also marked

• 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.

and B. 3.9 (see Marsden 1994 and Webber 1995). Parts of the Bible are completed in later hands on added quires: Genesis 1-29 (ff. 15th century, see part 3) and Obadiah 19-21, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi,

• 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.

and B. 3.9 (see Marsden 1994 and Webber 1995). Parts of the Bible are completed in later hands on added quires: Genesis 1-29 (ff. 15th century, see part 3) and Obadiah 19-21, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi,

• 6 decorated initials of Anglo-Saxon letter 'wynn'., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

Quire signatures in the lower margin for quires 1-8.There are 3 collections of medical recipes, each preceded by a contents list with numbered chapters:ff. 1- 6v: 88 numbered chaptersff. 58v-108: 67 numbered chapters, ff. 109-127: 76 numbered chapters in the

• 2 decorated initials of Anglo-Saxon letter 'wynn'., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

Quire signatures in the lower margin for quires 1-8.There are 3 collections of medical recipes, each preceded by a contents list with numbered chapters:ff. 1- 6v: 88 numbered chaptersff. 58v-108: 67 numbered chapters, ff. 109-127: 76 numbered chapters in the

• Text page with display script highlighted in colour., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

colour. Quire signatures in the lower margin for quires 1-8.There are 3 collections of medical recipes, each preceded by a contents list with numbered chapters:ff. 1- 6v: 88 numbered chaptersff. 58v-108: 67 numbered chapters, ff. 109-127: 76 numbered chapters in

• 2 decorated initials of Anglo-Saxon letters 'thorn' and wynn., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

wynn. Quire signatures in the lower margin for quires 1-8.There are 3 collections of medical recipes, each preceded by a contents list with numbered chapters:ff. 1- 6v: 88 numbered chaptersff. 58v-108: 67 numbered chapters, ff. 109-127: 76 numbered chapters in

• Decorated initial 'B'(eatus) with interlace and interwoven dogs., Commentary on the Psalms

brown. Commentary on the Psalms Several erased ownership ? inscriptions on the flyleaves, and a note of the number of quires 'iii quarterniones sunt in hoc volumine' (f. 423).ff. i-ii and iv-v (at the end) are fragments of a 14th-

• Illuminated initial 'D'(ominus) at the beginning of Psalm 26., Commentary on the Psalms

brown. Commentary on the Psalms Several erased ownership ? inscriptions on the flyleaves, and a note of the number of quires 'iii quarterniones sunt in hoc volumine' (f. 423).ff. i-ii and iv-v (at the end) are fragments of a 14th-

• Illuminated initial 'E'(xultate) at the beginning of Psalm 80 with interwoven white dogs (?)., Commentary on the Psalms

brown. Commentary on the Psalms Several erased ownership ? inscriptions on the flyleaves, and a note of the number of quires 'iii quarterniones sunt in hoc volumine' (f. 423).ff. i-ii and iv-v (at the end) are fragments of a 14th-

• Text page., De oratore

Text page. ff. 17-24 are bound in the wrong order. Catchwords written horizontally. Quire marks (Roman numerals in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires).A description of this manuscript written

• Text page with a table, diagrams and two initials 'E'(t) and 'I'(llud) in Boethius's 'De arithmetica', book 2, chapter 33., De institutione arithmetica (imperfect)

before f. 1.Quire signatures (in the centre of the lower margin of the recto of the first leaf of the quires, beginning with 'iii' on f. 7); uncrossed tironian ets. Numerous tables and diagrams in red. Initials in red or

• Display script with penwork decoration and reserved lines., Epistolae

secunda pars epistolarum aurelii augustini yponiensis episcopi'. Quire marks. Catchwords (added by later medieval hand). Text block on ff. 64-79 (quires 9-10) measures 270 x 175. Large initials in red, blue or green, frequently with reserved lines and with penwork

• Dedtail of display script with penwork decoration and reserved lines., Epistolae

secunda pars epistolarum aurelii augustini yponiensis episcopi'. Quire marks. Catchwords (added by later medieval hand). Text block on ff. 64-79 (quires 9-10) measures 270 x 175. Large initials in red, blue or green, frequently with reserved lines and with penwork

• Detail of decorated initial 'H'(abens) with reserved lines, arabesque and foliate motifs., Epistolae

secunda pars epistolarum aurelii augustini yponiensis episcopi'. Quire marks. Catchwords (added by later medieval hand). Text block on ff. 64-79 (quires 9-10) measures 270 x 175. Large initials in red, blue or green, frequently with reserved lines and with penwork

• Detail of decorated initial 'A'(ugustinus) with reserved lines, arabesque and foliate motifs., Epistolae

secunda pars epistolarum aurelii augustini yponiensis episcopi'. Quire marks. Catchwords (added by later medieval hand). Text block on ff. 64-79 (quires 9-10) measures 270 x 175. Large initials in red, blue or green, frequently with reserved lines and with penwork

• Detail of display script with reserved lines., Epistolae

secunda pars epistolarum aurelii augustini yponiensis episcopi'. Quire marks. Catchwords (added by later medieval hand). Text block on ff. 64-79 (quires 9-10) measures 270 x 175. Large initials in red, blue or green, frequently with reserved lines and with penwork

• Initial 'A'(mici) with pen-flourishing (added in the ?16th/17th century) forming a partial foliate border including a bird., Epistulae and other works

63); 'q xviiij' (f. 68v); '.a.' (f. 76v), '.B.' (f. 84v). Some marks indicating pages which face each other within quires: 'a' (ff. 23v, 24; 34v, 35), 'b' (ff. 25v, 26; 36v, 37), 'c' (ff. 27v, 28). Numerous initials in

• Initial 'P'(ater) with penwork decoration., Theological works (imperfect), including Soliloquia, De immortalitate animae, De XII abusivis saeculi, De gratia et libero arbitrio and Sermons

of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires); catchwords; ae caudatas. Leaves missing before f. 1 and after f. 207. Full list of contents in Sharpe 1996, pp. 60-61. Numerous large and small initials