• Historiated initial 'D'(omine) of a king kneeling before Christ., Fragment of a Psalter

the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.3 notes on f. [i]:'This fragment of an ancient Psalter was found at the back of a shelf among refuse Articles. From the handwriting of Humfrey Wanley at

• Decorated initial 'V'(erba) containing a bird amidst foliage. The series of marks like the letter 's' in the margins are placed to the right of biblical quotations. At the extreme lower edge is a guide to the rubricator, but the rubric was never supplied, perhaps because the artist did not leave sufficient space., Commentaries on Isaiah and Ezechiel

d. 1710), and came to Holt Wilson through intermarriage.George Holt Wilson, of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk: sale at Sotheby's, London, of 'Ancient Illuminated and other Manuscripts', 21 July 1910, lot 158, bought by Quaritch for £101.Bernard Quaritch, Ltd: its catalogue no.

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uintus) and a two-line rubric marking the end of Book 4 and the start of Book 5. 'Liber Quintus' (the fifth book) is written across the upper margins of the open pages, and sections of the text are numbered in leadpoint roman numerals in the upper and outer margins ('xxiii' and 'xxiiii'). The outer edge of the leaf also has guide-letters ('Q' and 'e') for the decorator., Commentaries on Isaiah and Ezechiel

d. 1710), and came to Holt Wilson through intermarriage.George Holt Wilson, of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk: sale at Sotheby's, London, of 'Ancient Illuminated and other Manuscripts', 21 July 1910, lot 158, bought by Quaritch for £101.Bernard Quaritch, Ltd: its catalogue no.

• Decorated initial 'F'(initis), at the beginning of the prologue to the second main text in the volume Unusually for the 12th century, there is an original foliation in the upper margin, which reads 'First leaf' in faint leadpoint., Commentaries on Isaiah and Ezechiel

d. 1710), and came to Holt Wilson through intermarriage.George Holt Wilson, of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk: sale at Sotheby's, London, of 'Ancient Illuminated and other Manuscripts', 21 July 1910, lot 158, bought by Quaritch for £101.Bernard Quaritch, Ltd: its catalogue no.

• Small coloured initials, and various forms of textual emendation. In the two-line rubric the roman numerals 'iii' and 'iiii' have been altered to 'ii' and 'iii'; the word 'liber' (book) has been changed to 'libri'; and the word 'Prologus' (prologue) has been inserted. In numerous other places corrections have been added between the lines of text., Commentaries on Isaiah and Ezechiel

d. 1710), and came to Holt Wilson through intermarriage.George Holt Wilson, of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk: sale at Sotheby's, London, of 'Ancient Illuminated and other Manuscripts', 21 July 1910, lot 158, bought by Quaritch for £101.Bernard Quaritch, Ltd: its catalogue no.

• At the end of the text, which ends with Book 6, a later Bury scribe (he refers to 'our bookcase of St. Edmund') has noted that there should be further texts: 'Here eight books of Jerome on Ezekiel are lacking, because he wrote 14 books on Ezekiel ...', Commentaries on Isaiah and Ezechiel

d. 1710), and came to Holt Wilson through intermarriage.George Holt Wilson, of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk: sale at Sotheby's, London, of 'Ancient Illuminated and other Manuscripts', 21 July 1910, lot 158, bought by Quaritch for £101.Bernard Quaritch, Ltd: its catalogue no.