• Coloured initials., Cartulary of Reading abbey, with lists of the libraries at Reading and its cell at Leominster, and of relics and vestments at Reading

ofRichard 1 (1190-1199), although the booklist may have been copied between c. 1180 and c. 1191, based on the names of the owners and donors of manuscripts: see Coates. The latest episcopal charters are of Hubert Walter, bishop

• Coloured initials., Cartulary of Reading abbey, with lists of the libraries at Reading and its cell at Leominster, and of relics and vestments at Reading

ofRichard 1 (1190-1199), although the booklist may have been copied between c. 1180 and c. 1191, based on the names of the owners and donors of manuscripts: see Coates. The latest episcopal charters are of Hubert Walter, bishop

• Text page., Cartulary of Reading abbey, with lists of the libraries at Reading and its cell at Leominster, and of relics and vestments at Reading

ofRichard 1 (1190-1199), although the booklist may have been copied between c. 1180 and c. 1191, based on the names of the owners and donors of manuscripts: see Coates. The latest episcopal charters are of Hubert Walter, bishop

• Marginal drawing of a dragon., Proposiciones; Errores in grammatica, letter to the Archbishop of Corinth; philosophical, scientific and mathematical treatises.

Marginal drawing of a dragon. Includes the condemned propositions of Tempier, Bishop of Paris (1270) and Robertus Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury (1270-1277) (f. 2). Initials in blue or red with pen-flourishing in the other colour at the beginning of each

• Marginal geometrical drawings., Proposiciones; Errores in grammatica, letter to the Archbishop of Corinth; philosophical, scientific and mathematical treatises.

'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 (f. 33), in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, (f. 20v) and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see

• Diagram, Proposiciones; Errores in grammatica, letter to the Archbishop of Corinth; philosophical, scientific and mathematical treatises.

'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 (f. 33), in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, (f. 20v) and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see

• Marginal drawings of a pointing hand and a human head., Proposiciones; Errores in grammatica, letter to the Archbishop of Corinth; philosophical, scientific and mathematical treatises.

'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 (f. 33), in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, (f. 20v) and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see

• Marginal drawing of a hybrid., Proposiciones; Errores in grammatica, letter to the Archbishop of Corinth; philosophical, scientific and mathematical treatises.

Marginal drawing of a hybrid. Includes the condemned propositions of Tempier, Bishop of Paris (1270) and Robertus Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury (1270-1277) (f. 2). Initials in blue or red with pen-flourishing in the other colour at the beginning of each

• Marginal drawings of human bust pointing the text, a hybrid, a pointing hand, and an animal head., Proposiciones; Errores in grammatica, letter to the Archbishop of Corinth; philosophical, scientific and mathematical treatises.

'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542 (f. 33), in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, (f. 20v) and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see

• Marginal drawings of a dragon and of heads of a man and a woman., Proposiciones; Errores in grammatica, letter to the Archbishop of Corinth; philosophical, scientific and mathematical treatises.

Marginal drawings of a dragon and of heads of a man and a woman. Includes the condemned propositions of Tempier, Bishop of Paris (1270) and Robertus Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury (1270-1277) (f. 2). Initials in blue or red with pen-flourishing

• Detail of a decorated initial 'B'(eatus) with foliated and interlace decoration, and animal heads and an animal mask at the beginning of Psalm 1, with the Old English gloss erased and corrected, visible in darker ink., Psalter, in the Gallican version, and canticles (ff. 168v-180v) with continuous English glosses, imperfect

collector of books and manuscripts (the facsimile of f. 1 inscribed: 'Ex Bibliotheca Thomae Astlei Arm.' (Stowe 1061, f. 60); and that of f. 111v: 'Thomae Astlei, Arm.' (Stowe 1061 f. 61).Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of

• Detail of a decorated initial 'D' with interlace and animal heads, at the beginning of Psalm 101., Psalter, in the Gallican version, and canticles (ff. 168v-180v) with continuous English glosses, imperfect

collector of books and manuscripts (the facsimile of f. 1 inscribed: 'Ex Bibliotheca Thomae Astlei Arm.' (Stowe 1061, f. 60); and that of f. 111v: 'Thomae Astlei, Arm.' (Stowe 1061 f. 61).Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of

• Detail of a decorated initial 'Q'(uid) with a dragon and animal head, at the beginning of Psalm 51., Psalter, in the Gallican version, and canticles (ff. 168v-180v) with continuous English glosses, imperfect

collector of books and manuscripts (the facsimile of f. 1 inscribed: 'Ex Bibliotheca Thomae Astlei Arm.' (Stowe 1061, f. 60); and that of f. 111v: 'Thomae Astlei, Arm.' (Stowe 1061 f. 61).Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of

• Decorated initial 'B'(eatus) combined with a full foliate bar border including interlace at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter, imperfect

1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Beatus initial Winchester England,

• Decorated initial 'D'(ixit) combined with a full foliate bar border including interlace at the beginning of Psalm 38., Psalter, imperfect

1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initial Winchester England,

• null, Legenda aurea (index Legendae sanctorum; Legends of the saints; Golden Legend)

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 Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the

• null, Legenda aurea (index Legendae sanctorum; Legends of the saints; Golden Legend)

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 Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the

• Marginal drawing of travellers, speaking In English, in the margin of Jacobus de Voragine's life of Cecila., Legenda aurea (index Legendae sanctorum; Legends of the saints; Golden Legend)

Marginal drawing of travellers, speaking In English, in the margin of Jacobus de Voragine's life of Cecila. Rust-stains from a chain-staple (?) at the lower edge of the front flyleaves (ff. [iii-]iv]). 4 large puzzle initials in red and blue

• Decorated initials 'D'(ilecto) and 'G'(loriosi) in Aelred of Rievaulx's Vita sancti Edwardi regis Anglorum., Epistola Cuthberti, Ecclesiastica historia; Aelred's Vita sancti Edwardi regis Anglorum (ff. 118-149), and other theological works

Ripon. Cuthbert subsequently became prior of Melrose, then prior of Lindisfarne, and went on to live as a hermit on the island of Inner Farne, off the coast of Northumberland. He was consecrated as bishop of Lindisfarne in 685 but

• Decorated initials 'U'(t) and 'S'(uccessit) at the beginning of book 5 of Bede's Ecclesiastica historia., Epistola Cuthberti, Ecclesiastica historia; Aelred's Vita sancti Edwardi regis Anglorum (ff. 118-149), and other theological works

Ripon. Cuthbert subsequently became prior of Melrose, then prior of Lindisfarne, and went on to live as a hermit on the island of Inner Farne, off the coast of Northumberland. He was consecrated as bishop of Lindisfarne in 685 but