• Decorated initials 'P'(rimum) and 'M'(aiores)., Historiae adversus paganos, in seven books, preceded by an 'Argumentum' (ff. 1-122); De bello Troiana (index De excidio troiae historia), preceded by the supposititious letter of Cornelius Nepos to Sallust, beginning, 'Cornelius Salustio suo salutem. Cum multa Athenis' (ff. 123-133v), imperfect at the end (the manuscript breaks off at the end of Chapter 46)

century (f. 1). Henry Savile of Banke, Yorkshire (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: his shorthand inscription, 'Netlton Hnry Savil' (f. 1) (see Warner and Gilson 1921); listed in the catalogue of his library: Harley 1879, f. 1, and

• Decorated initials 'I'(am) and 'I'(gitur)., Historiae adversus paganos, in seven books, preceded by an 'Argumentum' (ff. 1-122); De bello Troiana (index De excidio troiae historia), preceded by the supposititious letter of Cornelius Nepos to Sallust, beginning, 'Cornelius Salustio suo salutem. Cum multa Athenis' (ff. 123-133v), imperfect at the end (the manuscript breaks off at the end of Chapter 46)

century (f. 1). Henry Savile of Banke, Yorkshire (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: his shorthand inscription, 'Netlton Hnry Savil' (f. 1) (see Warner and Gilson 1921); listed in the catalogue of his library: Harley 1879, f. 1, and

• Decorated initial 'A'(nno)., Historiae adversus paganos, in seven books, preceded by an 'Argumentum' (ff. 1-122); De bello Troiana (index De excidio troiae historia), preceded by the supposititious letter of Cornelius Nepos to Sallust, beginning, 'Cornelius Salustio suo salutem. Cum multa Athenis' (ff. 123-133v), imperfect at the end (the manuscript breaks off at the end of Chapter 46)

century (f. 1). Henry Savile of Banke, Yorkshire (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: his shorthand inscription, 'Netlton Hnry Savil' (f. 1) (see Warner and Gilson 1921); listed in the catalogue of his library: Harley 1879, f. 1, and

• Decorated initials 'P'(ostea) and 'P'(ost)., Historiae adversus paganos, in seven books, preceded by an 'Argumentum' (ff. 1-122); De bello Troiana (index De excidio troiae historia), preceded by the supposititious letter of Cornelius Nepos to Sallust, beginning, 'Cornelius Salustio suo salutem. Cum multa Athenis' (ff. 123-133v), imperfect at the end (the manuscript breaks off at the end of Chapter 46)

century (f. 1). Henry Savile of Banke, Yorkshire (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: his shorthand inscription, 'Netlton Hnry Savil' (f. 1) (see Warner and Gilson 1921); listed in the catalogue of his library: Harley 1879, f. 1, and

• Decorated initials 'O'(rosius) and 'P'(receptis)., Historiae adversus paganos, in seven books, preceded by an 'Argumentum' (ff. 1-122); De bello Troiana (index De excidio troiae historia), preceded by the supposititious letter of Cornelius Nepos to Sallust, beginning, 'Cornelius Salustio suo salutem. Cum multa Athenis' (ff. 123-133v), imperfect at the end (the manuscript breaks off at the end of Chapter 46)

century (f. 1). Henry Savile of Banke, Yorkshire (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: his shorthand inscription, 'Netlton Hnry Savil' (f. 1) (see Warner and Gilson 1921); listed in the catalogue of his library: Harley 1879, f. 1, and

• Decorated initial 'R'(ex)., Historiae adversus paganos, in seven books, preceded by an 'Argumentum' (ff. 1-122); De bello Troiana (index De excidio troiae historia), preceded by the supposititious letter of Cornelius Nepos to Sallust, beginning, 'Cornelius Salustio suo salutem. Cum multa Athenis' (ff. 123-133v), imperfect at the end (the manuscript breaks off at the end of Chapter 46)

century (f. 1). Henry Savile of Banke, Yorkshire (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: his shorthand inscription, 'Netlton Hnry Savil' (f. 1) (see Warner and Gilson 1921); listed in the catalogue of his library: Harley 1879, f. 1, and

• Decorated initial 'B'(ellum)., Historiae adversus paganos, in seven books, preceded by an 'Argumentum' (ff. 1-122); De bello Troiana (index De excidio troiae historia), preceded by the supposititious letter of Cornelius Nepos to Sallust, beginning, 'Cornelius Salustio suo salutem. Cum multa Athenis' (ff. 123-133v), imperfect at the end (the manuscript breaks off at the end of Chapter 46)

century (f. 1). Henry Savile of Banke, Yorkshire (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: his shorthand inscription, 'Netlton Hnry Savil' (f. 1) (see Warner and Gilson 1921); listed in the catalogue of his library: Harley 1879, f. 1, and

• Decorated initial 'P'(eleus)., Historiae adversus paganos, in seven books, preceded by an 'Argumentum' (ff. 1-122); De bello Troiana (index De excidio troiae historia), preceded by the supposititious letter of Cornelius Nepos to Sallust, beginning, 'Cornelius Salustio suo salutem. Cum multa Athenis' (ff. 123-133v), imperfect at the end (the manuscript breaks off at the end of Chapter 46)

century (f. 1). Henry Savile of Banke, Yorkshire (b. 1568, d. 1617), collector of manuscripts: his shorthand inscription, 'Netlton Hnry Savil' (f. 1) (see Warner and Gilson 1921); listed in the catalogue of his library: Harley 1879, f. 1, and

• Decorated initials 'M'(undus) and 'A'(thomos) at the beginning of sections concerning the physical world, starting with a passage on the world, and followed by one on atoms., Commentary on Phocas's Ars de nomine et verbo; Etymologiae and De nominibus legis et evangelii sive Alegoriae

blue, red, green and brown (e. g., ff. 1, 2v). Smaller initials in blue or green, some with penwork decoration in red, or in red, some with penwork decoration in green. 1 full-page diagram in colours (f. 107v), and 2

• Decorated initial., Commentary on Phocas's Ars de nomine et verbo; Etymologiae and De nominibus legis et evangelii sive Alegoriae

blue, red, green and brown (e. g., ff. 1, 2v). Smaller initials in blue or green, some with penwork decoration in red, or in red, some with penwork decoration in green. 1 full-page diagram in colours (f. 107v), and 2

• Coloured initials, and marginal diagram is next to passages concerning the course of the sun through the sky, and the light of the moon, Commentary on Phocas's Ars de nomine et verbo; Etymologiae and De nominibus legis et evangelii sive Alegoriae

blue, red, green and brown (e. g., ff. 1, 2v). Smaller initials in blue or green, some with penwork decoration in red, or in red, some with penwork decoration in green. 1 full-page diagram in colours (f. 107v), and 2

• Decorated initials., Commentary on Phocas's Ars de nomine et verbo; Etymologiae and De nominibus legis et evangelii sive Alegoriae

blue, red, green and brown (e. g., ff. 1, 2v). Smaller initials in blue or green, some with penwork decoration in red, or in red, some with penwork decoration in green. 1 full-page diagram in colours (f. 107v), and 2

• Text page., Commentary on Phocas's Ars de nomine et verbo; Etymologiae and De nominibus legis et evangelii sive Alegoriae

blue, red, green and brown (e. g., ff. 1, 2v). Smaller initials in blue or green, some with penwork decoration in red, or in red, some with penwork decoration in green. 1 full-page diagram in colours (f. 107v), and 2

• Zoomorphic initial, with a bird body., Commentary on Phocas's Ars de nomine et verbo; Etymologiae and De nominibus legis et evangelii sive Alegoriae

blue, red, green and brown (e. g., ff. 1, 2v). Smaller initials in blue or green, some with penwork decoration in red, or in red, some with penwork decoration in green. 1 full-page diagram in colours (f. 107v), and 2

• Circular diagram representing a map of the world (a so-called 'T-O' map)., Commentary on Phocas's Ars de nomine et verbo; Etymologiae and De nominibus legis et evangelii sive Alegoriae

blue, red, green and brown (e. g., ff. 1, 2v). Smaller initials in blue or green, some with penwork decoration in red, or in red, some with penwork decoration in green. 1 full-page diagram in colours (f. 107v), and 2

• Decorated initial 'T'(empora) in red ink with interlace pattern at the beginning of Ovid's Fasti. Added inscription by the humanist Coluccio Salutati (b. 1331, d. 1406) in the upper margin reading '42 carte lii'., Fasti (ff. 1-49v); calendar (January to July; ff. 50v-53)

'42 carte lii'. The calendar provides astrological information rather than religious feasts. Initials in red ink with interlace pattern (f. 1), with a reserved line (f. 8), or with penwork decoration (ff. 33v, 41v). Initials in green with red penwork

• Decorated initial 'R'(erum) (index arabesque) at the beginning of the text; ownership inscription in the lower margin indicating that the manuscript belonged to the Carthusian house of Rethel (Ardennes) in the 15th century, 'Iste liber est fr[atru]m carthusiensiu[m] in Rutila p[ro]pe Sirck'., 'Liber pancrisis': a theological miscellany

(b. c. 1033, d. 1109) and his brother Ralph], [...]' (f. 1). Large initial in blue with penwork decoration in the same colour including foliate forms (index arabesque) (f. 1). Smaller coloured initials in red, blue or green, occasionally with

• Two large initials, 'Q' and 'L', with pen-flourishing., Versus de laude crucis; Versus morales; Versus de missa (ff. 10-18)

and 'L', with pen-flourishing. f. 1 contains a list of chapters of Suidas and f. 1v a list of contents, to which the Boethius has been added in a later hand.Part 2 has a scholarly gloss in the margins in

• An adaptation of Macrobius’s map of the five zones, with North is at the top, and the cardinal points marked with crosses. The names 'hispania, alpes, gades, balearia, sardinia, Sicilia, egiptus and asia' were not typically included in earlier Macrobius maps., Somnium Scipionis (ff. 3-7), with an 'Alfabetum Grecorum' (f. 1v), a diagram of consanguinity (f. 2)

a parchment leaf at the end.Ampersands, and uncrossed tironian ets. In part 1, ct ligatures. 1 drawing in brown ink with colour washes, of a mounted knight (f. 1). Large zoomorphic initial in brown ink with coloured washes (f. 3).

• Detail of illuminated initial 'L'(ibrum) at the beginning of the preface to Esther., Bible, from Proverbs to Revelation, vol. 2

beginning of the preface to Esther. Volume 1 is Harley 2833. Quire marks (Roman numerals on the verso of the last leaf of the quire).The lower margin of f. 217 has been excised. Canon tables framed by arches preceding the