• Detail of a miniature of Regnet slaying Bertoullet with a sword, while outside are the four sons of Bayard., Renaut de Montauban (or Les Quatre Fils Aimon)

red. Renaut de Montauban (or Les Quatre Fils Aimon) Inscribed 'Les IIII filz Aymont', 15th century (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 75; and in

• Detail of a miniature of the sons robbing travellers in the forest., Renaut de Montauban (or Les Quatre Fils Aimon)

red. Renaut de Montauban (or Les Quatre Fils Aimon) Inscribed 'Les IIII filz Aymont', 15th century (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 75; and in

• Text page with a rubric 'De la sepulture des corps humains', and illuminated initials., De civitate Dei, books 1-10, in French translation (La cite de Dieu)

cite de Dieu) Unidentified coat of arms, azure a lion rampant or, armed and langued gules (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 34; and in

• Text page with coloured initials, Epistulae 1-123

Epistulae 1-123 The Benedictine Abbey of St Peter, Chertsey, Surrey: inscribed ' Constat mo[na]ste[ri]o de Certes[ia]' (f. 206v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1091'; included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71 (f.

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(ater) of Christ blessing and holding a book, at the beginning of the Pater Noster., Gospel of Matthew, with the Glossa ordinaria

with penwork decoration, in red or blue, throughout the gloss. Gospel of Matthew, with the Glossa ordinaria The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see [Edward Bernard],

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uatuor), at the beginning of Peter's the Chanter commentary., Diatessaron

brown (ff. 1, 2v, 3, 8v). Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Diatessaron The English Royal library: Westminster inventory number 'no. 1023' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory

• Miniature of the English ships at Lisbon, and an audience of the English., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

1994). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 43.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. English ships

• Detail of a miniature of the English ships at Lisbon, and an audience of the English., Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre

1994). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 43.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. English ships

• Decorated initial 'D'(e nativitate) at the beginning of the capitula to Romans, with added inscription in the upper margin; from left to right they are: a title and a press-mark characteristic of the Benedictine abbey of St. Werburgh, Chester; the ownership note 'Ex monasterio Cestrie' (i.e. from the monastery of Chester); the inventory number of the Old Royal library in the Upper Library at Westminster Palace ('No. 1098'); the present pressmark of the British Library ('4. E viij'), and below this the page number in the old catalogue ('p. 58'). ., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

the inventory number of the Old Royal library in the Upper Library at Westminster Palace ('No. 1098'); the present pressmark of the British Library ('4. E viij'), and below this the page number in the old catalogue ('p. 58'). .

• Miniature of Lionnel du Glac and the old man of the Forest aux Merveilles, with a partial trompe l'oeil border, Perceforest (Anciennes croniques Dangleterre, faictz et gestes du roy Perceforest, et des chevaliers du Franc Palais)

Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 13.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Lionnel du Glac and the

• Miniature of the battle of English and French before Saint Denis, with a partial border and an illuminated initial 'L'(an)., Grandes Chroniques de France (Chronique de Charles VII)

17th century (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Battle at

• Miniature of the battle of English and French at Castillon-sur-Dordogne, with a partial border and a foliate initial 'O'(udict)., Grandes Chroniques de France (Chronique de Charles VII)

17th century (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 12v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Battle at

• Inhabited initials 'H'(ec sunt) with white lions, at the beginning of Deuteronomy., Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, with the Glossa Ordinaria and interlinear glosses

Maidestane (see Royal 5 B XIII, f. 2r).Added paper leaf containing accounts in Latin and English, late 15th century (f. 2r-2v).The Old Royal Library (The English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 515' (f. 1), included in the inventory of

• Text page of of the 'De Genesi ad litteram' of Augustine., De Genesi ad litteram

I, B VI, D V, 8 D XVI, Vide 5 B XII et IV', 16th-17th century (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 59' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Detail of decorated initials 'C'(onqreute) and 'S'(iquis), with instructions for rubrics in the margin., Apparatus in quinque libros Decretalium

8 G I, which belonged to Michael de Mentmore, abbot of St. Albans (1335-1349), 14th century (f. 2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Innocentius super Decretales' on a slip of paper attached to f. 1v, Westminster

• Decorated initial 'E'(vangelium) with dragons and a human mask, at the beginning of sermons of Augustine., Sermones de verbis Domini et apostoli

sit liber iste, q[uod] W[ybarn]', c. 1467 (see a dated inscription in Royal 2 C I) (f. 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 809' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'D'(olor), at the beginning of the De compunctione cordis., De compunctione cordis, De die iudicii et de resurrectione, De beatitudine animae, De paenitentia, De luctaminibus and De die iudicii; patristic excerpts

83-84v).Added notes in English 14th-century hand (f. 2v).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), (f. 3).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):

• Text page with initials and rubrics., Historia Scolastica (Acts of the Apostles)

and others, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 4 (London: The British Library,1996), B77.37, B79.35.)Parts 1 and 2:The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666 (f. 4?) and in the 1698 catalogue of the

• Drawing of a cleric imposing a penance on a man, in the margin of the chapter 'Hec penitencia est inponenda ei, qui matrem occiderit'., Abbreviatio Decreti Gratiani

Robert, prior of the Rochester cell at Walton St. Felix, or Felixstowe ('Waletune'), no. 236 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 262' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books

• Miniature of Innocent IV writing, with another pope kneeling before a cardinal and a scholar (Innocent IV?) dictating to a scribe, with a full border, at the beginning of book 1., Apparatus in quinque libros Decretalium

amen. amen' (f. 221v).Inscribed 'Radulphus', 14th century (f. 1).Added running titles for rubrics and marginal glosses, 14th-century English hand.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 422' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in