• Large initial 'I'(udei) with decoration in angular and foliate patterns., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

wrote two commentaries on celestial hierarchies, combining them into one around 1137.The scribe of this manuscript also wrote part of London, British Library Royal 3 D. ix, the other surviving manuscript from Kirkstead in the Royal collection. 1 large initial

• Initial 'H'(is) with decoration., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

wrote two commentaries on celestial hierarchies, combining them into one around 1137.The scribe of this manuscript also wrote part of London, British Library Royal 3 D. ix, the other surviving manuscript from Kirkstead in the Royal collection. 1 large initial

• Coloured initial 'L'., Miscellaneous theological texts

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 188). William Forrest, according to Ker, the vicar of Bledlow, near Thame, in 1556

• null, Epistolae ex Ponto

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 217, 321).Sir Roger Twysden, (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed (ff. 2,

• null, Epistolae ex Ponto

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 217, 321).Sir Roger Twysden, (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed (ff. 2,

• null, Epistolae ex Ponto

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 217, 321).Sir Roger Twysden, (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed (ff. 2,

• null, Carmen paschale, and related material, including the Epistola ad Macedonium, and Hymnus I, and a list of contents

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 188). William Forrest, according to Ker, the vicar of Bledlow, near Thame, in 1556

• Historiated initial with Peter and Paul., Bible, with prologues and the interpretations of Hebrew names

pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Bible, with prologues and the interpretations of Hebrew names W. Barrett, book-seller in London, 1607-1624: inscribed 'November 13, 1608. I sold this book and I will warrant it to be perfect [signed] W.

• Inhabited initial., Bible, with prologues and the interpretations of Hebrew names

pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Bible, with prologues and the interpretations of Hebrew names W. Barrett, book-seller in London, 1607-1624: inscribed 'November 13, 1608. I sold this book and I will warrant it to be perfect [signed] W.

• Zoomorphic initial 'G'(lorio) of a dragon., De Civitate Dei (index City of God), books 1-9

[Sce Marie](?) ...' (f. 155v, cf. f. 2). The title in Spanish occurs twice in 17th/18th?-century hands (f. 1).Thomas Thorpe, London bookseller: catalogue 1826, no. 4360; bought by Philipps.Sir Thomas Phillipps (b. 1792, d. 1872), baronet, collector of books and

• Inhabited puzzle initial including a reading figure., Liber de Apibus, etc.

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller (see below). Bought by the British Museum from Rodd on 13 August 1840 for 10s 6d, along with

• Drawing of a knight on horseback, with a lance, with an account of Macrobius and his work, and opposite, various ownership inscriptions and the book-plate of Dunn., Somnium Scipionis (ff. 3-7), with an 'Alfabetum Grecorum' (f. 1v), a diagram of consanguinity (f. 2)

Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead in 1899: his book-plate (f. iii) and pencil acuistion note (f. i); his sale, at Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1917, lot 3413, bought by the British Museum, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by

• Drawing of outline drawing of Scipio Africanus and Masinissa, under a colonnade., Somnium Scipionis (ff. 3-7), with an 'Alfabetum Grecorum' (f. 1v), a diagram of consanguinity (f. 2)

Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead in 1899: his book-plate (f. iii) and pencil acuistion note (f. i); his sale, at Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1917, lot 3413, bought by the British Museum, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by

• Puzzle initial., Miscellany, including a history of Susanna, 58 Aesopic fables (ff. 171-187), a liber 'de doctrina cordis' (ff. 5-141v); Alan of Lille's Parabolae (ff. 161-171); and Regulae theologicae (ff. 270-318v); Alan of Meaux's Metrical treatise on Susanna (ff. 1-4)

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller (see below). Bought from Rodd by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for 5s, along with 32

• Decorated initial 'E'(cclesiastica) with penwork decoration., In Lucam

Mainwaring of Over Peover, Philip's grandfather.Sir Henry Mainwaring (b. 1726, d. 1797), 4th baronet.: his book-plate (inside upper cover).Joseph Lilly, London bookseller: purchased by the British Museum at the Lilly sale, 27 January 1873, lot 1375 for £14 using the

• Decorated initial 'B'(eatus) with penwork decoration., In Lucam

Mainwaring of Over Peover, Philip's grandfather.Sir Henry Mainwaring (b. 1726, d. 1797), 4th baronet.: his book-plate (inside upper cover).Joseph Lilly, London bookseller: purchased by the British Museum at the Lilly sale, 27 January 1873, lot 1375 for £14 using the

• Title page decorated with a coloured drawing of an armorial tree with the arms of Lancashire noble families centred around those of the duchy of Lancaster., 'The Visitacion of Lancashire' (index Visitation of Lancashire) (unfinished)

of Lancashire) (unfinished) William Smith (b. c. 1550, d. 1618), herald, playwright and topographer, c. 1575 citizen and Haberdasher of London, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant in 1597: written by him in 1598 following a visitation in 1467 (f. 2*), notes probably

• Coloured drawing of the map of Lancashire dated and signed by William Smith., 'The Visitacion of Lancashire' (index Visitation of Lancashire) (unfinished)

of Lancashire) (unfinished) William Smith (b. c. 1550, d. 1618), herald, playwright and topographer, c. 1575 citizen and Haberdasher of London, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant in 1597: written by him in 1598 following a visitation in 1467 (f. 2*), notes probably

• Historiated initial (dating, like the text, from the 1st half of the 11th century) and added drawing illustrating a Psalm (2nd quarter of the 12th century)., Added drawings

text is not the Gallican version of it but the Roman (see Abbot Gasquet and Edmund Bishop, ~The Bosworth Psalter~ (London: Bell and Sons, 1908)).Coloured drawings have been added in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century (ff. 29-35). Added

• Detail of pen drawings illustrating Psalm 53, with a decorated letter 'D'(eus in nomine tuo)., Added drawings

text is not the Gallican version of it but the Roman (see Abbot Gasquet and Edmund Bishop, ~The Bosworth Psalter~ (London: Bell and Sons, 1908)).Coloured drawings have been added in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century (ff. 29-35). Added