• Text page with inventory of relics at Exeter: 'These are the names of the holy saints, which are in the monastery of St Peter and St Mary, Exeter . . .'. The list begins with relics of Christ's blood, his cross, tomb, and clothing. The list also enumerates a part of St Peter's beard and St Andrew's walking-stick., De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses

creature enmeshed in foliage (f. 4). Large initial in red (now oxided) with a blue wash and foliate decoration (f. 1). Large initial in green (f. 3v). Title, prologue, incipit and explicit in red or green capitals (ff. 1-4, 53).

• Initial with foliate decoration., De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses

creature enmeshed in foliage (f. 4). Large initial in red (now oxided) with a blue wash and foliate decoration (f. 1). Large initial in green (f. 3v). Title, prologue, incipit and explicit in red or green capitals (ff. 1-4, 53).

• Initial 'I'(am) with man and a dragon enmeshed in foliage., De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses

creature enmeshed in foliage (f. 4). Large initial in red (now oxided) with a blue wash and foliate decoration (f. 1). Large initial in green (f. 3v). Title, prologue, incipit and explicit in red or green capitals (ff. 1-4, 53).

• Initial 'M' with penwork decoration in leaf patterns and capitals on coloured grounds., Symbolum fidei, Registrum; Recantation of 1079

armario claustri s[anc]ti Edm[und]i regis et m[arti]ris' (f. 1) and with the press-mark 'G.16'.John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 1); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection,

• Text page., Symbolum fidei, Registrum; Recantation of 1079

armario claustri s[anc]ti Edm[und]i regis et m[arti]ris' (f. 1) and with the press-mark 'G.16'.John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 1); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection,

• Large initial 'V' with penwork decoration (incomplete)., Symbolum fidei, Registrum; Recantation of 1079

armario claustri s[anc]ti Edm[und]i regis et m[arti]ris' (f. 1) and with the press-mark 'G.16'.John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 1); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection,

• Decorated initial 'B'(reves) with foliate motifs., Chronicon (ff. 1v-94v), Chronology of Roman emperors (ff. 94v-96), Chronology of the dukes of Normandy to 1035 (ff. 96-96v), with prominent entries relating to the founding of the abbey of Mont St. Michel, the beginning of the building of the church and Suppo's abbacy (f. 96), Genealogy of the Kings of France to 987 (ff. 97-100)

if not the same, as the scribe of Royal 13 A XXII.For the text, see Migne, Patr. Lat. CXXIII. 23. 1 large initial in red and green with foliate motifs (f. 1v). Smaller plain initials in red or green. Capitals

• null, Chronicon (ff. 1v-94v), Chronology of Roman emperors (ff. 94v-96), Chronology of the dukes of Normandy to 1035 (ff. 96-96v), with prominent entries relating to the founding of the abbey of Mont St. Michel, the beginning of the building of the church and Suppo's abbacy (f. 96), Genealogy of the Kings of France to 987 (ff. 97-100)

the same, as the scribe of Royal 13 A XXII.For the text, see Migne, Patr. Lat. CXXIII. 23. 1 large initial in red and green with foliate motifs (f. 1v). Smaller plain initials in red or green. Capitals marked in

• null, Chronicon (ff. 1v-94v), Chronology of Roman emperors (ff. 94v-96), Chronology of the dukes of Normandy to 1035 (ff. 96-96v), with prominent entries relating to the founding of the abbey of Mont St. Michel, the beginning of the building of the church and Suppo's abbacy (f. 96), Genealogy of the Kings of France to 987 (ff. 97-100)

the same, as the scribe of Royal 13 A XXII.For the text, see Migne, Patr. Lat. CXXIII. 23. 1 large initial in red and green with foliate motifs (f. 1v). Smaller plain initials in red or green. Capitals marked in

• Puzzle initial with penwork flourishing, and in the lower margin, the ownership inscription 'James Orchard Halliwell No. 220'., Lives of saints, 28 miracles of the Virgin, and Henry of Sawtrey's De purgatorio Sancti Patricii (ff. 195-196)

ink as far as 'lx' (f. 125). Large puzzle initial in red and blue, with purple and red pen-flourishing (f. 1). Large initials in red with purple pen-flourishing, and in blue with red pen-flourishing. Initials in red. Paraphs in red.

• Illuminated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with interlace decoration, at the beginning of the Gospel of Luke., Gospels, with capitula (ff. 163-175)

Illuminated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with interlace decoration, at the beginning of the Gospel of Luke. Full-page canon tables in gold and red, within frames of gold and/or silver and colours (ff. 1-6v). Very large initials in colours and gold with

• Simple initial 'O'(mnis) with a face in Pierre Tudebode's Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere., Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere

Simple initial 'O'(mnis) with a face in Pierre Tudebode's Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere. 1 initial in red with arabesque motifs (f. 1). Initials in red or brown with some penwork decoration, including dots, lines, simple spiralling extensions and once with

• Detail of a historiated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with Augustine in a bishop's mitre holding a bishop's staff and a heart, Manuale (ff. 2-46v), Retractiones (extract), De beata vita (ff. 47-86v); and Psalms, Prayers, Litanies

Latin list of contents in his hand? (f. 1); his binding: his sale 4 March 1733 (the 16th part), lot 718.John Nickolls (b. 1710/11, d. 1745), antiquary (inscribed ‘Jn Nickolls’ (f. 1, upper right hand corner). Charles Burney (b. 1757,

• Alchemical recipe, added in the ? 15th century., Apocalypse (in Wycliffe translation), with commentary

with penwork decoration (e.g. f. 97v) Apocalypse (in Wycliffe translation), with commentary Various inscriptions (ff. 1, 2, 109, and in margins), including alchemical recipe (f. 1); 15th century. Mathew Goodryk: inscribed with his name, early 16th century (f. 109v).David Norkin

• Decorated initial 'P'(rebuerat) at the beginning of book 6 of Ovid's Metamorphoses., Metamorphoses, imperfect

a parchment flyleaf. f. 118 is an unwritten flyleaf. 2 leaves missing after f. 11, 1 after f. 59 (see Munari 1957).Some outer margins have been excised.Quire marks. Large initial and red and brown ink with penwork decoration in the

• Zoomorphic initial 'M'(agnitudo) in dark brown ink, red and green and some blue, with knot-work and foliate motifs, in the shape of a grotesque(s)., De mysteriis (ff. 1-4v); De sacramentis (ff. 4v-16v); Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini (serm. 17, ff. 16v-18v); Contra Iouinianum (ff. 18v-69v); Hypomnesticon (ff. 69v-90)

shape of a grotesque(s). Erased inscription on f. 2*v. In the manuscript 'De mysteriis' begins imperfectly (leaves lost before f. 1), 'Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini' is ascribed to Isidore of Seville and has the running header 'De Mysteriis'

• Zoomorphic initial 'I' in dark brown ink, red and green and some blue, with knot-work and foliate motifs, in the shape of a bird., De mysteriis (ff. 1-4v); De sacramentis (ff. 4v-16v); Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini (serm. 17, ff. 16v-18v); Contra Iouinianum (ff. 18v-69v); Hypomnesticon (ff. 69v-90)

shape of a bird. Erased inscription on f. 2*v. In the manuscript 'De mysteriis' begins imperfectly (leaves lost before f. 1), 'Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini' is ascribed to Isidore of Seville and has the running header 'De Mysteriis'

• Decorated initials 'Q'(uattuor) and 'B'(ello) at the beginning of the text., Antiquitates iudaicae

century (?) hand Initials in colours with penwork decoration at the beginning of the prologue and the five books (ff. 1, 22, 30v, 40, 49). 3 small initials in red and one in blue (ff. 49, 53, 64, 66). Rubrics

• Zoomorphic initial 'P'(auci) with grotesque and knot-work motifs, at the beginning of Jerome's 'Contra Iouinianum'., De mysteriis (ff. 1-4v); De sacramentis (ff. 4v-16v); Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini (serm. 17, ff. 16v-18v); Contra Iouinianum (ff. 18v-69v); Hypomnesticon (ff. 69v-90)

Erased inscription on f. 2*v. In the manuscript 'De mysteriis' begins imperfectly (leaves lost before f. 1), 'Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini' is ascribed to Isidore of Seville and has the running header 'De Mysteriis' and the 'Hypomnesticon' is

• Historiated initial with the Adoration of the Magi at Sext in the Hours of the Virgin, with a hybrid creature in the lower margin., Psalter-Hours

combined with a bar border with ivy on three or four sides (f. 13: David playing the harp, for Psalm 1, praying lady, hybrid creature in the border; f. 42: David pointing at his eye, for Psalm 26 (27), lady,