• Puzzle initial 'I'(n mense) with a foliate decoration, at the beginning of Zechariah., Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss

blue. Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss The Benedictine cathedral priory of St. Mary, Worcester: inscribed by William Thornhill of York, c. 1528 (see a dated inscription by him in Royal 2 D. XXVI), 'Liber ecclesiae beatae Mariae Wigorne[nsis] /

• Puzzle initial 'V'(erbum) with a foliate decoration, at the beginning of Joel, and two puzzle initials 'S'(anctus) and 'J'(oel) at the beginning of the prologues to Joel., Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss

blue. Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss The Benedictine cathedral priory of St. Mary, Worcester: inscribed by William Thornhill of York, c. 1528 (see a dated inscription by him in Royal 2 D. XXVI), 'Liber ecclesiae beatae Mariae Wigorne[nsis] /

• Zoomorphic initial 'A'(nno) at the beginning of Daniel., Jeremiah and Daniel with the Glossa Ordinaria

Clericalis of Petrus Alphonsi, 14th century (f. 1).The Benedictine cathedral priory of St. Mary, Worcester: inscribed by William Thornhill of York, c. 1528 (see a dated inscription by him in Royal 2 D XXVI): inscribed 'Liber Ecclesiae beatae Mariae Wigorne[nsis]

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

ei abstulerit aut titulum delev[er]it anathema sit. Am[en]' (f. 2). Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• 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

ei abstulerit aut titulum delev[er]it anathema sit. Am[en]' (f. 2). Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

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

ei abstulerit aut titulum delev[er]it anathema sit. Am[en]' (f. 2). Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

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

ei abstulerit aut titulum delev[er]it anathema sit. Am[en]' (f. 2). Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

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

ei abstulerit aut titulum delev[er]it anathema sit. Am[en]' (f. 2). Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Plain red initial 'E'(cclesiastica) at the beginning of the first theological tract, with the ownership inscription of the Augustinian Priory of Merton, Surrey, in the upper margin, and the monogram of Thomas Wolsey in the lower margin., Various theological tracts, beginning, 'Ecclesiastica corectio que fit per excomunionem', Sentences analogous to the work of Peter Lombard, various brief texts on religious topics (De excomunicatione etc.), Isidore of Seville's exposition on Genesis and Exodus, extracts from Jerome's Epistolas taken from the Florilegium Angelicum, Sic et Non, imperfect at the beginning and the end, Dialogus inter philosophum, Iudaeum et Christianum, imperfect at the beginning and the end, excerpts attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux

and dissolved in 1538: inscribed, 'L[i]b[er] s[anc]te Mar[ie] Merton' (f. 1).Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (f. 1) (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii).The Old Royal Library (the

• Detail of a miniature of a centaur holding a snake., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

snake. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two East Anglian Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504~, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London:

• Detail of a miniature of goats on their hind legs., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

legs. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two East Anglian Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504~, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London:

• Detail of a miniature of a wolf approaching a sheepfold., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

sheepfold. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two East Anglian Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504~, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London:

• Miniature of mice and worms., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two East Anglian Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504~, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh

• Zoomorphic initial 'F'(ecit) at the beginning of the prologue to the Gospels., Glossed Matthew and Mark

one with an animal head (f. 44). Paraphs in brown. Glossed Matthew and Mark The cathedral church of St Peter, York: 13th-century ? inscription 'Liber sanct[ ] ebor' (f. 3); inscribed, 14th-century, with a title and 'de Thesauraria Ebor ecclesie

• Illuminated initial 'M('atheus) at the beginning of the prologue to Matthew., Glossed Matthew and Mark

one with an animal head (f. 44). Paraphs in brown. Glossed Matthew and Mark The cathedral church of St Peter, York: 13th-century ? inscription 'Liber sanct[ ] ebor' (f. 3); inscribed, 14th-century, with a title and 'de Thesauraria Ebor ecclesie

• Illuminated initial 'L'(iber) at the beginning of Matthew, with acanthus leaf decoration., Glossed Matthew and Mark

one with an animal head (f. 44). Paraphs in brown. Glossed Matthew and Mark The cathedral church of St Peter, York: 13th-century ? inscription 'Liber sanct[ ] ebor' (f. 3); inscribed, 14th-century, with a title and 'de Thesauraria Ebor ecclesie

• Illuminated initial 'M'(arcus) at the beginning of the prologue to Mark, with foliate decoration., Glossed Matthew and Mark

one with an animal head (f. 44). Paraphs in brown. Glossed Matthew and Mark The cathedral church of St Peter, York: 13th-century ? inscription 'Liber sanct[ ] ebor' (f. 3); inscribed, 14th-century, with a title and 'de Thesauraria Ebor ecclesie

• Illuminated initial 'I'(nitium) at the beginning of Mark, with acanthus leaf decoration., Glossed Matthew and Mark

one with an animal head (f. 44). Paraphs in brown. Glossed Matthew and Mark The cathedral church of St Peter, York: 13th-century ? inscription 'Liber sanct[ ] ebor' (f. 3); inscribed, 14th-century, with a title and 'de Thesauraria Ebor ecclesie

• 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

of St. Augustine, Canterbury (see Ker 1964).Perhaps commissioned by Aelfric, archbishop of Canterbury: he bequeathed it to Wulfstan, archbishop of York in 1003 or 1004 (see discussion Le Grand Atelier 2007).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d.

• Detail of pen drawings illustrating Psalm 53, with a decorated letter 'D'(eus in nomine tuo)., Added drawings

of St. Augustine, Canterbury (see Ker 1964).Perhaps commissioned by Aelfric, archbishop of Canterbury: he bequeathed it to Wulfstan, archbishop of York in 1003 or 1004 (see discussion Le Grand Atelier 2007).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d.