• Decorated initials 'P' and 'B'. In the left margin next to the initial 'P' is a faint letter 'R', for 'red', or 'rouge', in French, and next to the green initial 'B' is a letter that could either be a 'G', for green, or a 'V', for 'vert', in French., 'Scutum Bede', a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum (ff. 155v-165)

1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham.Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham. Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham

• Decorated initial 'O', and in the lower half of this page, a list of names of animals with some English equivalents next to the Latin written in smaller script. For example, above 'Agna' is 'ewelomb' (ewe lamb); next to 'Porcus' is 'Swin' (Swine) and 'Porc'; below 'Sus' is 'bor' (boar); and on the bottom line next to 'Capra' is 'got' (goat)., 'Scutum Bede', a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum (ff. 155v-165)

1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham.Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham. Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham

• Decorated headpiece with animals and foliate forms, and decorated foliate initial, at the beginning of the 8th book., History of the Peloponnesian war

foliate or braided decoration at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 31v, 56, 81v, 111v, 133v, 157, 179v). 8 large initials in brown with penwork decoration, including of heads at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 31v, 56, 81v, 111v,

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'S'(osius) with foliate decoration and two lions., Antiquitates iudaicae (books XV-XX), De bello iudaico

(f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7b; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'A'(ntipatro) with foliate decoration, a lion, and a bird, at the beginning of book 17., Antiquitates iudaicae (books XV-XX), De bello iudaico

(f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7b; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward

• Text page., Antiquitates iudaicae (books XV-XX), De bello iudaico

(f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7b; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward

• Detail of a decorated initial 'T'., Antiquitates iudaicae (books XV-XX), De bello iudaico

(f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 7b; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see [Edward

• Beginning of the table of contents with decorated and coloured initials., De universo seu De rerum naturis

'Etymologies' of Isidore, of Rabanus Maurus (b. c. 776, d. 856), abbot of Fulda and later archbishop of Mainz (ff. 6-282v), preceded by the letters to Louis the Germanic, king of Germany (843-876) (ff. 1-2), and to Haymo, bishop of

• Inhabited initial 'P'(rimum) with human figures and animals, at the beginning of Book 1., De universo seu De rerum naturis

'Etymologies' of Isidore, of Rabanus Maurus (b. c. 776, d. 856), abbot of Fulda and later archbishop of Mainz (ff. 6-282v), preceded by the letters to Louis the Germanic, king of Germany (843-876) (ff. 1-2), and to Haymo, bishop of

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'P'(rimum) with human figures and animals, at the beginning of Book 1., De universo seu De rerum naturis

'Etymologies' of Isidore, of Rabanus Maurus (b. c. 776, d. 856), abbot of Fulda and later archbishop of Mainz (ff. 6-282v), preceded by the letters to Louis the Germanic, king of Germany (843-876) (ff. 1-2), and to Haymo, bishop of

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'P'(rimum) with human figures and animals, at the beginning of Book 1., De universo seu De rerum naturis

'Etymologies' of Isidore, of Rabanus Maurus (b. c. 776, d. 856), abbot of Fulda and later archbishop of Mainz (ff. 6-282v), preceded by the letters to Louis the Germanic, king of Germany (843-876) (ff. 1-2), and to Haymo, bishop of

• Text page with a drawing of a hand pointing to text from the margin., De universo seu De rerum naturis

'Etymologies' of Isidore, of Rabanus Maurus (b. c. 776, d. 856), abbot of Fulda and later archbishop of Mainz (ff. 6-282v), preceded by the letters to Louis the Germanic, king of Germany (843-876) (ff. 1-2), and to Haymo, bishop of

• Decorated and coloured initials 'N'(atura) and 'H'(omo)., De universo seu De rerum naturis

'Etymologies' of Isidore, of Rabanus Maurus (b. c. 776, d. 856), abbot of Fulda and later archbishop of Mainz (ff. 6-282v), preceded by the letters to Louis the Germanic, king of Germany (843-876) (ff. 1-2), and to Haymo, bishop of

• Text page in the table of contents., De universo seu De rerum naturis

'Etymologies' of Isidore, of Rabanus Maurus (b. c. 776, d. 856), abbot of Fulda and later archbishop of Mainz (ff. 6-282v), preceded by the letters to Louis the Germanic, king of Germany (843-876) (ff. 1-2), and to Haymo, bishop of

• Coloured initial 'P'(rima)., Computistica, De temporibus

by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; Included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 20; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see [Edward Bernard], ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum

• Coloured initial 'C'(um) at the beginning of the text, with an ownership inscription of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans, reading 'H[ic] est liber s[an]c[t]i Albani q[ue]m q[u]i ei abstulerit aut titulum delev[er]it anathema sit. Am[en]', and the monogram of cardinal Thomas Wolsey., Computistica, De temporibus

at the beginning of the text, with an ownership inscription of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans, reading 'H[ic] est liber s[an]c[t]i Albani q[ue]m q[u]i ei abstulerit aut titulum delev[er]it anathema sit. Am[en]', and the monogram of cardinal Thomas Wolsey.

• Coloured initial 'A'(nnus) at the beginning of book 1., Computistica, De temporibus

by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; Included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 20; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see [Edward Bernard], ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum

• Decorated initial 'D'(e), at the beginning of the prologue of Bede's treatise 'De temporibus'., Computistica, De temporibus

by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; Included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 20; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see [Edward Bernard], ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum

• Coloured initial 'T'(empora) and letters in Greek., Computistica, De temporibus

by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; Included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 20; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see [Edward Bernard], ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum

• Historiated initial (dating, like the text, from the 1st half of the 11th century) and added drawing illustrating a Psalm (2nd quarter of the 12th century)., Added drawings

Christ Church Canterbury: evidence of an initial with an archbishop wearing a pallium (f. 2); and by the script of one of the scribes (ff. 28-49v), identified by T. A. M. Bishop as being that of Eadui Basan, a Christ