• Illuminated initial 'D'(ilexi) with border., Book of Hours, Use of the Collegiate Church of Sint Hermeskerk, Ronse

blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Capital letters highlighted in red. Book of Hours, Use of the Collegiate Church of Sint Hermeskerk, Ronse The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford

• White vine initial 'P'(ost) at the beginning of book 16 of Augustine's De Civitate Dei., De Civitate Dei (index City of God)

border including the coats of arms of Janos Vitez and Petrus Garazda, medallions with saints (probably the Fathers of the Church: three of them are bishops and the fourth one is probably Peter), a wolf and hen, winged putti, a

• Miniature of a procession into church., Book of Hours, Use of Paris

a procession into church. Several prayers added in the 17th century on originally blank parchment (ff. 13-16v, 23v-24v, 33r-v, 93v-95v, 119r-v, 163v-165v). 26 full-page miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders, some probably originally left unfinished, in colours

• Miniature of a procession into church., Book of Hours, Use of Paris

a procession into church. Several prayers added in the 17th century on originally blank parchment (ff. 13-16v, 23v-24v, 33r-v, 93v-95v, 119r-v, 163v-165v). 26 full-page miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders, some probably originally left unfinished, in colours

• Text page., History of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow, Life of Ceolfrid, Lives of Pope Calixtus I and other martyrs, the legend of Theophilus

Jarrow, Life of Ceolfrid, Lives of Pope Calixtus I and other martyrs, the legend of Theophilus Perhaps written at Christ Church, Canterbury: see discussion Bishop 1963.Eleventh-century additons of music, including a sheet from a discarded Troper (f. 35): see discussion

• White vine initial 'C'(ivitatem) at the beginning of book 11 of Augustine's De Civitate Dei., De Civitate Dei (index City of God)

border including the coats of arms of Janos Vitez and Petrus Garazda, medallions with saints (probably the Fathers of the Church: three of them are bishops and the fourth one is probably Peter), a wolf and hen, winged putti, a

• Historiated initial 'I'(n) with standing male and female figures in front of a building and full foliate bar border., The Knight of the Tower, imperfect

Kellie: inscribed, early 17th century 'David Kellie' (ff. 2, 16, 49v).George Hickes (b. 1642, d. 1715), bishop of the nonjuring Church of England and antiquary: inscribed, 'Given by Mr. Hickes' (f. 1*). The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b.

• Decorated initial 'C'(apitula)., Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England; Statuta Angliae, Statute book), for Edward III and Richard II

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Coloured initial 'D'(uas [enim] creaturas rationales condidit creator) at the prologue of the third book of Alcuin's De fide sanctae et individuae Trinitatis'., Alcuin's De Trinitate and other works, and Latin verses and a letter addressed to Eulalia (i.e. Gundrada, cousin of Charlemagne), imperfect at the end

and Latin verses and a letter addressed to Eulalia (i.e. Gundrada, cousin of Charlemagne), imperfect at the end The cathedral church of St Nazaire, Carcassone: its ownership inscription, 'Iste liber est ecclesie sancti Nazarii Carcassonnensis. Quicunque eum furatus fuerit vel

• Puzzle initial 'C'(ogitatio) with pen-flourishing., Historia ecclesiastica; Vita s. Guillelmi Gellonensis (index Guillaume of Aquitaine) (ff. 181-191v)

quire marks decorated with brown pen-flourishing. Historia ecclesiastica; Vita s. Guillelmi Gellonensis (index Guillaume of Aquitaine) (ff. 181-191v) The cathedral church of St-Nazaire, Carcassonne (Aude, France), 14th century: inscribed 'Iste liber est eccl[es]ie sedis s[an]c[t]I Nazarii Carcassone' (f. 1).The Harley

• Puzzle initials with penwork decoration, and bookstamp of the Franciscan monastery of Sancta Maria Annunciata, Varese, in the lower border., Sermonarium de commendatione virtutum et reprobatione vitiorum

Annunciata Varisii (ff. 1, 203v; see Watson 1973).With marginal notes in a 15th-century cursive hand.Conyers Middleton (b. 1683, d. 1750), Church of England clergyman and author, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1706, head librarian of the University Library at

• Initial with penwork decoration 'P'(retor)., Speculum monachorum

17th centuries: his name occurs in an English prayer on a stub (between ff. 70-71).John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John

• Marginal sketch of the city of Jerusalem., Speculum monachorum

17th centuries: his name occurs in an English prayer on a stub (between ff. 70-71).John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John

• Title in display capitals and decorated initial 'P'., Psalter, including Odes (ff. 245-265v) and the fragment of a Euchologion (ff. 266-282)

red. Psalter, including Odes (ff. 245-265v) and the fragment of a Euchologion (ff. 266-282) Conyers Middleton (b. 1683, d. 1750), Church of England clergyman and author, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1706, head librarian of the University Library at

• Miniature of the Deposition and foliate borders, at the beginning of Vespers in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of the Collegiate Church of Sint Hermeskerk, Ronse

blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Capital letters highlighted in red. Book of Hours, Use of the Collegiate Church of Sint Hermeskerk, Ronse The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford

• null, Epitome bellorum omnium annorum DCC

1 large foliate initial in colours on a burnished punched gold ground (f. 1, perhaps 19th-century ?), with a three-sided border incorporating heraldic arms. Small initials alternately plain red or blue, often in unusual angular forms. Epitome bellorum omnium

• null, Epitome bellorum omnium annorum DCC

1 large foliate initial in colours on a burnished punched gold ground (f. 1, perhaps 19th-century ?), with a three-sided border incorporating heraldic arms. Small initials alternately plain red or blue, often in unusual angular forms. Epitome bellorum omnium

• Miniature of an eminent envoy sent by the head of the church being brought before the Grand Duke Dmitri., Skazanie o Mamaevom Poboishche (the Tale of the Rout of Mamai)

sent by the head of the church being brought before the Grand Duke Dmitri. The Skazanie is a romance, composed in the 15th century, relating the struggle of the Muscovian Grand Prince, Dmitri Donskoj, against his Tartar opponent, Mamai. The

• Decorated initial 'X' with an abbreviated form of Christ's name, 'Xpi' at the beginning of Matthew 1.18., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

St Petroc, Bodmin by the end of the 10th century: records of public manumissions at the high altar of the church were added in Anglo-Saxon minuscule in the 2nd half of the 10th and the 11th centuries. They include the

• A frame with five roundels and interlace panels (probably intended for a 'Christ in Majesty' miniature)., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

St Petroc, Bodmin by the end of the 10th century: records of public manumissions at the high altar of the church were added in Anglo-Saxon minuscule in the 2nd half of the 10th and the 11th centuries. They include the