• Text page with initials and ownership inscription., Alexandreis

Andrew G. Watson, ~The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke~ (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969), p. 52 no. 184).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 4) and in the 1698 catalogue of

• Initial 'G'(esta) at the beginning of the Alexandreis., Alexandreis

Andrew G. Watson, ~The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke~ (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969), p. 52 no. 184).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 4) and in the 1698 catalogue of

• Decorated initials 'Q'(uintus) and 'C'(um) at the beginning of Cicero's 'Ad atticum'., Alexandreis

Andrew G. Watson, ~The Manuscripts of Henry Savile of Banke~ (London: Bibliographical Society, 1969), p. 52 no. 184).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 4) and in the 1698 catalogue of

• Framed initial 'A'(spiciebam) from Daniel 7:2 with zoomorphic, foliate and spiral decoration and extension., Sermons

St Andrew, Rochester (1262-1283), perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Liber de Claustro Roffens[is] per I. priorem' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 813' (f. 1); included in the inventory of books in the

• Initial 'H'(abemus) with penwork decoration., Sermons

St Andrew, Rochester (1262-1283), perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Liber de Claustro Roffens[is] per I. priorem' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 813' (f. 1); included in the inventory of books in the

• Puzzle initial 'V'(idi) with pen-flourishing in foliate patterns., Sermons

St Andrew, Rochester (1262-1283), perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Liber de Claustro Roffens[is] per I. priorem' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 813' (f. 1); included in the inventory of books in the

• Text page., Epistolae and religious tracts

abstul[er]it aut illi sup[er] eo fraude[m] fec[er]it, n[isi] eidem eccl[es]ie plene satisfec[er]it, anathema sit maranatha. Fiat. Fiat. Ame[n].'The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 325' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Initial 'H'(enrico) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the ~Compendium in Iob~ of Peter of Blois., Epistolae and religious tracts

abstul[er]it aut illi sup[er] eo fraude[m] fec[er]it, n[isi] eidem eccl[es]ie plene satisfec[er]it, anathema sit maranatha. Fiat. Fiat. Ame[n].'The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 325' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Initial 'H'(enrico) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the prefatory epistle to Henry II in Peter of Blois' ~Epistolae~., Epistolae and religious tracts

abstul[er]it aut illi sup[er] eo fraude[m] fec[er]it, n[isi] eidem eccl[es]ie plene satisfec[er]it, anathema sit maranatha. Fiat. Fiat. Ame[n].'The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 325' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Initial 'D'(um) decorated with a bird at the beginning of the ~Exhortationes~ of Peter of Blois., Epistolae and religious tracts

abstul[er]it aut illi sup[er] eo fraude[m] fec[er]it, n[isi] eidem eccl[es]ie plene satisfec[er]it, anathema sit maranatha. Fiat. Fiat. Ame[n].'The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 325' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial, with addorsed animals., Policraticus

beginning, 'Syn fortune hath forbarryt your presence | I can not oper wyse myn herte vnclose' (f. 114).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 697' (f. [ii]); included in the inventory of books in the

• Initial 'I'(nter) with foliate decoration., Policraticus

beginning, 'Syn fortune hath forbarryt your presence | I can not oper wyse myn herte vnclose' (f. 114).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 697' (f. [ii]); included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initials., Policraticus

beginning, 'Syn fortune hath forbarryt your presence | I can not oper wyse myn herte vnclose' (f. 114).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 697' (f. [ii]); included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initials., Policraticus

beginning, 'Syn fortune hath forbarryt your presence | I can not oper wyse myn herte vnclose' (f. 114).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 697' (f. [ii]); included in the inventory of books in the

• Marginal drawing of a scribe at work, in the upper left margin., Policraticus

beginning, 'Syn fortune hath forbarryt your presence | I can not oper wyse myn herte vnclose' (f. 114).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 697' (f. [ii]); included in the inventory of books in the

• Marginal drawing of a woman., Policraticus

beginning, 'Syn fortune hath forbarryt your presence | I can not oper wyse myn herte vnclose' (f. 114).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 697' (f. [ii]); included in the inventory of books in the

• 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

archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (f. 1) (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1080' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Illuminated initial 'E'(piscopus), at the beginning of causa 24., Decretum

Decretum The Benedictine abbey of St Mary, Reading: 'Hic est liber monacho[rum] claustraliu[m] Radingie', 15th century (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 9, 9v, or 10;

• Diagram of the Tree of Consanguinity., Decretum

Decretum The Benedictine abbey of St Mary, Reading: 'Hic est liber monacho[rum] claustraliu[m] Radingie', 15th century (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, ff. 9, 9v, or 10;

• Text page with lettering in black and red., Pauline Epistles, in the new Latin translation of Jacques Lefèvre

adiecta intelligentia ex graeco cum commentariis~, printed in Paris in 1512 (see Trapp 1976, p. 209 n. 4).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1264' (f. 1*, flyleaf of each of the original five volumes),