• Historiated initial 'T'(uit) of the martyrdom of Vincent on a spiked wheel., Lives of the Saints

brown ink (Carley's 'Old Large Number') '63', (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the Catalogue of 1666, f. 14.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.

• Detail of an historiated initial 'M' of Christopher preaching to black men in a castle., Lives of the Saints

brown ink (Carley's 'Old Large Number') '63', (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the Catalogue of 1666, f. 14.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.

• Historiated initial 'A'(u) of Agatha being tortured with pincers., Lives of the Saints

brown ink (Carley's 'Old Large Number') '63', (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the Catalogue of 1666, f. 14.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.

• Detail of an historiated initial 'A' of Lucy in a fire being pierced by a spear., Lives of the Saints

brown ink (Carley's 'Old Large Number') '63', (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the Catalogue of 1666, f. 14.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.

• Miniature in four compartments, with portraits of English kings: William I and William Rufus, in the upper register, and Henry I and Stephen, in the lower register., Historia Anglorum, Chronica majora, Part III; Continuation of Chronica maiora

of 1534; notes in his hand (ff. 10-100).Added leaves replacing the original folios, 16th century (ff. 34-35v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1041' (f. 1), included in the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Miniature in four compartments, with portraits of English kings: Henry II and Richard I, in the upper register, and John and Henry III, in the lower register., Historia Anglorum, Chronica majora, Part III; Continuation of Chronica maiora

of 1534; notes in his hand (ff. 10-100).Added leaves replacing the original folios, 16th century (ff. 34-35v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1041' (f. 1), included in the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'S'(i) with two lions, at the beginning of the Policraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

39 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).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), 16th century (f. 2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Illuminated initial 'I'(nter) at the beginning of book 1 of the Polycraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

39 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).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), 16th century (f. 2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Inscription recording that Richard of Reading had the book bound in Oxford, and that it belonged to the Benedictine abbey of St. Mary, Reading: 'Istu[m] libru[m] oxon[ie] fecit Ricardus de Redyngi[e] ligari que[m] qui alienaverit / a monasterio Redyngie fu[n]dato i[n] honore[m] gloriose virginis Marie et / beato[rum] ap[osto]lo[rum] petri et pauli Iohannis atque Iacobi vel in eo fraude[m] / fec[er]it anathema sit.', Digestum Vetus, with pre-Accursian glosses

Appulford e[st] bon[us] puer', 14th century (f. 249).Added list of contents referred to running titles, 14th-century English hand (f. 250v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 9v; and in

• Decorated initial 'N'(on) at the beginning of book 5 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

39 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).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), 16th century (f. 2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Decorated initial 'A'(dversus), at the beginning of book 1 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

39 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).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), 16th century (f. 2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Illuminated initial 'D'(ogmate), at the beginning of the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

39 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).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), 16th century (f. 2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Decorated initial 'N'(otum) at the beginning of book 6 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

39 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).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), 16th century (f. 2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Inhabited initial 'S'(i) with two lions, at the beginning of the Policraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

39 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).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), 16th century (f. 2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Two fifteenth-century inscriptions identifying the contents of the manuscript and recording (in verse) the gift of the book from John Whethamstede to the Benedictines at Oxford. John Lumley's ownership inscription underneath., Doctrinale fidei ecclesiae, Books 1 and 2

Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71 (f. 5v) and in the 1698

• Puzzle initial 'I'(nsistit) with pen-flourishing., Doctrinale fidei ecclesiae, Books 1 and 2

Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71 (f. 5v) and in the 1698

• Puzzle initial 'M'(ea) with pen-flourishing and a partial border with medallions containing the Lamb of God (the symbol of John the Baptist) and the eagle symbol of John the Evangelist., Doctrinale fidei ecclesiae, Books 1 and 2

Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71 (f. 5v) and in the 1698

• Puzzle initial 'B'(eatissimi) with pen-flourishing and a partial border at the beginning of Book 2., Doctrinale fidei ecclesiae, Books 1 and 2

Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71 (f. 5v) and in the 1698

• 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

foliated and interlace decoration, and animal heads and an animal mask at the beginning of Psalm 1, with the OldEnglish gloss erased and corrected, visible in darker ink. Added marginal notated incipits of Psalms.Musical notation: late Anglo-Saxon neumes on

• Miniature from the prefatory cycle of the Holy Women at the Tomb, in the upper register, and the Descent to Hell, in the lower register., Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

(ff. 137-139). The calendar includes the erased name of Thomas of Canterbury in gold display script and a number of English saints: Judoc, Edburga, Oswald, Cuthbert, Guthlac, Dunstan, Andelm, Alban, Etheldreda, Swithun, Grimbald, Kenelm, Frideswide, Edmund, Birinus, etc. The translation