• Religious Prose and Pastoral Texts

fols 4-51 were 6 quires, each with 8 leaves. These are not visible on the digitised images (Kiernan, Electronic Beowulf). Fol. 60 apparently has the signature VIII in the same series. Fols 78-93 were probably 2 quires of 8 leaves,

• Homilies; Poema Morale

am nu elder ~x00fe~an ich was a wintre ˥ a lore' Quire 1, as noted below, is different from subsequent quires, both in terms of layout and in terms of its codicology more generally. The page measures 136mm x 113mm;

• Annotations to Orosius, Chronicle

Prick marks are no longer visible, as the manuscript has been trimmed. The first seven quires are arranged HFHF, quires 7-13 are arranged HHHH, quires 15-21 are 'arranged so that hair meets hair and flesh meets flesh' ( O'Brien O'Keeffe

• Continuous gloss, etc., to Arundel Psalter

paraphrase of psalm 50 (fols 46v-52r) Canticles (fols 119/18-30r/18) Litany (fols 130r/19-132v) Litany and Latin prayers (fols 133-42. These two quires were added in s. xii 2 . This litany is a continuation of the previous item, which lost its

• Ecclesiastical institutes, &c.

p. 71) of s. xi med , containing mainly letters of ~x00e6~lfric to Wulfstan and two penitentials, to which some quires were added s. xi 2 . The originally blank recto of the first leaf of Quire 6 and the

• Homilies

55-58). Quire signatures in pencil are seen at the openings of Quires 3, 6 and 8 on the lower right margin of the first recto. The first two quires were misbound until the correct order was restored in June 1937.

• St Wulfstan's Homiliary, part 1

are singletons, fols 137-144. Franzen 1998 reports that 'Quire signatures are marked in bottom margin of the first recto of Quires 3-16: p (fol. 9), q (fol. 17), r (fol. 25), s (fol. 33), t (fol. 41), u (fol. 49),

• Rule of St. Benedict

foliation, in a different hand to the others. The bottom and top pencil foliations correspond throughout the manuscript. iii flyleaves, quires 1 2 , fols 1-2 (a bifolia); 2 7 (wants 1), fols 3-9; 3-6 8 , fols 10-41; 7

• Bede's Death Song

of descenders turn to the left. There is an inscription by Thomas Allen in a flyleaf. Modern brown binding. The quires are mounted in guards. Symeon of Durham's Liber , which includes Bede's Death Song , was originally written at

• Dialogue of Adrian and Ritheus ; Distichs of Cato , &c.

red, purple, yellow, green and/or blue large capitals, and elaborated line fillers in red. A probably later hand signed the quires in the centre of the foot of the folio: G at the foot of fol. 24r, M at the

• ~x00e6~lfric's Grammar

blank, 2-8 8 , 9 2 two singletons, 10 2 . The last bifolium was added to finish the text. Quires 2-4 are signed respectively: .i., .ii., .iiii., .iiii. at the centre of the foot of the first recto of

• Gloss to Regius Psalter

to see the quire structure. Medieval quire signatures can be seen in the bottom margins, on the last page of quires: i (fol. 15v), ii (fol. 23v), v (fol. 47v, erased but visible), vi (fol. 55v), vii (fol. 63v), viii

• Will of King Alfred; Resting-places of Saints, &c.

1-126. According to Ker (1957) , collation is uncertain. There are many half-sheets, fols 30-37 and fols 42-49 are regular quires of eight leaves, fols 25-26 are a bifolium, fol. 41 should follow fol. 49. Fols 23, 24, 40, 58

• Gregory's Dialogues

142, 19 8 , 20 8 wants 7, 8, probably blank, after fol. 157 ( Ker 1957 , p. 107). Quires are now marked in modern pencil The flyleaves are paper of the date of binding (fols i, ii, 160-1)

• ~x00e6~lfric's Grammar and Glossary

foliation numbers and the 17th-century annotations have suffered. fols 1-93 154-58 103-11 Ruled in dry point for 26 (quires 7-12) or 27 (quires 1-6) long lines. See a typical layout of a page with 27 lines: LO11_a . Double horizontal

• Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiæ

on the recto and the verso. However, the ruling technique is the same as the one used for the other quires; that is, ruling in dry point consistently done on the flesh side of the parchment. Double bounding lines on

• Homilies

is numbered 120 . According to Wilcox (2000) , the collation as follows is tentative for all but the centre quires, as the manuscript is bound very tightly (p. 49): 1-4 8 , fols 1-32, 5 3 , fols 33-34,34*,

• Penitential, &c.

24-31, 5 4 + 1 leaf after 3, fol. 32, fols 32-36, 6-9 8 fols 37-68. 3 and 6 in quires 1-3, 6 and 7 are singletons. Leaves are arranged FFHH. Written in 24 long lines, but often without following

• Glossary

folios; Quire 6: a medieval 6 in ink; Quire 7: a medieval 7 ; Quire signatures stop at fol. 51; Quires 3, 4, 5 and 6 have signs on the verso of the last folio. Fol. 1 is ruled for

• Gospels , etc.

seal attached on the recto side, which was originally verso. Quires 2-26 (fols 2-199): 2-11 8 (fols 2-81), 12 6 (fols 82-87), 13-26 8 (fols 88-199); 3 and 6 in Quires 19 (fols 138-141) are a pair of half-sheets. Quire