• Historiated initial 'P'(ost) with an eagle holding a book (the symbol of John?), at the beginning of part 6., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

of Canterbury (1114-1122): inscribed 'Quarta p[er] 6 Moraliu[m] Gregorii incip[i]t p[er] R. Archiep[isco]p[u]m / de claust[r]o Roffens[i]', 14th century (f. 1), and 'Liber de claust[r]o Roffens[i] p[er] Radulfum Archep[iscopu]m', 14th century (f. 6); included in the Rochester library catalogues of

• Historiated initial 'Q'(uo) of Job and his wife giving him bread, with a dragon forming the tail of the letter, at the beginning of book 17., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

of Canterbury (1114-1122): inscribed 'Quarta p[er] 6 Moraliu[m] Gregorii incip[i]t p[er] R. Archiep[isco]p[u]m / de claust[r]o Roffens[i]', 14th century (f. 1), and 'Liber de claust[r]o Roffens[i] p[er] Radulfum Archep[iscopu]m', 14th century (f. 6); included in the Rochester library catalogues of

• Historiated initial 'Q'(uis) of a saint, at the beginning of book 27., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

of Canterbury (1114-1122): inscribed 'Quarta p[er] 6 Moraliu[m] Gregorii incip[i]t p[er] R. Archiep[isco]p[u]m / de claust[r]o Roffens[i]', 14th century (f. 1), and 'Liber de claust[r]o Roffens[i] p[er] Radulfum Archep[iscopu]m', 14th century (f. 6); included in the Rochester library catalogues of

• 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,

• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(eptemtrionalis) of a dragon., Historia Langobardorum, in six books, each preceded by a table of contents, added hymn on the preservation of St. Bertin's abbey at St. Omer from destruction by fire (ff. 71v-72) (index Historia Longobardorum)

dragon. Ruled in hardpoint.ff. i*, 1, 73 are parchment flyleaves.Incipit: 'Septemtrionalis plaga'. The scribe is like, if not the same, as the scribe of Royal 13 A XXIII.Added on ff. 71v-72, in a smaller contemporary hand, is a hymn on

• Detail of a decorated initial 'P'., Theological texts

but mostly unfinished and left in different stages of execution (ff. 5-55v, 109), at the beginning of books and chapters. 1 space left for an initial (f. 41v) and numerous initials in red, brown or green, some with penwork decoration

• Decorated initial 'A'(postolica) at the beginning of the De conflictu vitiorum et virtutum of Ambrosius Autpertus., De conflictu vitiorum et virtutum, De compunctione cordis, Prognosticon futuri saeculi, De corpore et sanguine domini, with sermons and Vita S. Fursei

Salomonis et eius penitentia', see Hunt 1958) (ff. 160-161).Written by three hands (Hand I: ff. 2-84v, attributed to Rochester Scribe 1 by Waller 1980, other manuscripts written by him are Trinity College, Cambridge, O.2.24 ff. 1-111v, and Royal 12 C

• Coloured initials., Frontinus's 'Strategemata', Books 1-4, imperfect at the beginning and the end (ff. 1-50v), Eutropius's 'Breviarium ab urbe condita', Books 1-10 (ff. 55v-109)

Coloured initials. This copy of 'Strategemata' belongs to the Anglo-Norman family, which also includes Cambridge, Peterhouse, 252.iii (11th-12th century, northern France) and Oxford, Lincoln College, lat. 100 (written by William at Malmesbury c. 1125), according to unpublished notes of

• Puzzle initial 'V'(oluntas) and flourished border at the beginning of the Similitudines Anselmi., Similitudines Anselmi, with table of chapters

1806), antiquary and topographer (inscribed in pencil ‘Archbishop Anselm’s Similitudes, Compleat/Wrote about Anno Domini 1400 in the Court Hand’, f. 1); for similar notations see Burney 39, 288, 307 (?), 320, 323, and Additional 18601.Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817),

• 'Historical' annals of the six ages of the world, up to 1099 in English, added as a final leaf to the manuscript., The Six Ages of the World (recto), and a list of the bishops of Winchester from Birinus to Walkelin (verso) 1070-1090

'Historical' annals of the six ages of the world, up to 1099 in English, added as a final leaf to the manuscript. Unilluminated. The Six Ages of the World (recto), and a list of the bishops of Winchester from

• List of the names of the bishops of the west Saxons, in both Latin and Old English, added as the last leaf of the manuscript., The Six Ages of the World (recto), and a list of the bishops of Winchester from Birinus to Walkelin (verso) 1070-1090

List of the names of the bishops of the west Saxons, in both Latin and Old English, added as the last leaf of the manuscript. Unilluminated. The Six Ages of the World (recto), and a list of the bishops

• Simple headpiece and intial 'T'(on) in an extract from Cyril of Scythopolis's Life of Euthymius of Palestine., Theological extracts and various letters

Simple headpiece and intial 'T'(on) in an extract from Cyril of Scythopolis's Life of Euthymius of Palestine. A palimpsest, re-using at least five older manuscripts. The principal manuscript re-used was a liturgical book written in a small minuscule, perhaps

• Simple headpiece and intial 'T'(on) in an extract from Cyril of Scythopolis's Life of Euthymius of Palestine., Theological extracts and various letters

Simple headpiece and intial 'T'(on) in an extract from Cyril of Scythopolis's Life of Euthymius of Palestine. A palimpsest, re-using at least five older manuscripts. The principal manuscript re-used was a liturgical book written in a small minuscule, perhaps

• Decorated initial 'I'(n illo tempore) with interlace and foliate motifs., Homiliary, temporal (from Septuagesima to Easter Eve) (index Homiliae). At the end are added in a 12th-century hand, two pieces in verse, 'De Corpore et Sanguine Domini', beginning, 'Mysterio magno legali vescimur agno' (f. 170v), and 'Crimina deploret sua sic peccator et oret', beginning, 'Quo pius et pietas Deus a te pulsus abibo' (f. 171).

flyleaves, are from a 13th-century manuscript of the Historia Scholastica of Petrus Comestor. ff. 3, 4 should follow f. 176. 1 large initial in brown ink with interlace and foliate motifs (f. 5). Initials in red, some large, some small.