• Puzzle initial 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of a metrical version of the Psalms in Middle English., Psalter in Latin with a parallel French translation, imperfect, with the Athanasian Creed and the Lord's Prayer, in Latin and French

with the Athanasian Creed and the Lord's Prayer, in Latin and French The Augustinian priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Kirkham, Yorkshire: 14th-century ? inscription 'Liber monasterii de Kirkham' (f. 2v).15th-century ? inscriptions 'Johes Vicaricui Hutton' and Thomas leue'

• Decorated initials., The Psalms in English verse (the Surtees Society version), with parallel Latin, and Latin prayers

English verse (the Surtees Society version), with parallel Latin, and Latin prayers The Augustinian priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Kirkham, Yorkshire: 14th-century ? inscription 'Liber monasterii de Kirkham' (f. 2v).15th-century ? inscriptions 'Johes Vicaricui Hutton' and Thomas leue'

• Decorated initials., Breviary, use of Mâcon, with a calendar (ff. 1-6v), imperfect

cover.Musical notation of plain-song settings for the Venite, hymns for the office throughout the year, for the dedication of the church and the Commune Sanctorum (ff. 470-479). Large initials in blue and/or red with red and blue penwork decoration. Large

• Puzzle initials 'D'(ominus) and 'L'(i) at the beginning of Psalm 26, in Latin and French., Psalter in Latin with a parallel French translation, imperfect, with the Athanasian Creed and the Lord's Prayer, in Latin and French

with the Athanasian Creed and the Lord's Prayer, in Latin and French The Augustinian priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Kirkham, Yorkshire: 14th-century ? inscription 'Liber monasterii de Kirkham' (f. 2v).15th-century ? inscriptions 'Johes Vicaricui Hutton' and Thomas leue'

• Puzzle initials 'E'(xultate) and 'E' at the beginning of Psalm 80 in Latin and French., Psalter in Latin with a parallel French translation, imperfect, with the Athanasian Creed and the Lord's Prayer, in Latin and French

with the Athanasian Creed and the Lord's Prayer, in Latin and French The Augustinian priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Kirkham, Yorkshire: 14th-century ? inscription 'Liber monasterii de Kirkham' (f. 2v).15th-century ? inscriptions 'Johes Vicaricui Hutton' and Thomas leue'

• Coloured initials at the beginning of Psalm 61; text in Greek, Latin and Arabic., Trilingual Psalter

made from the Greek by Abu l-Fath Abd Allah b. al-Fadl b. Abd Allah al-Mutran al-Antakie, deacon of the Melkite church of Antioch in the mid-eleventh century. This may be the earliest surviving manuscript of this translation. Headpieces in red

• Coloured initial at the beginning of Psalm 87., Trilingual Psalter

made from the Greek by Abu l-Fath Abd Allah b. al-Fadl b. Abd Allah al-Mutran al-Antakie, deacon of the Melkite church of Antioch in the mid-eleventh century. This may be the earliest surviving manuscript of this translation. Headpieces in red

• Coloured initials., Trilingual Psalter

from the Greek by Abu l-Fath Abd Allah b. al-Fadl b. Abd Allah al-Mutran al-Antakie, deacon of the Melkite church of Antioch in the mid-eleventh century. This may be the earliest surviving manuscript of this translation. Headpieces in red (f.

• Historiated initial 'E'(dwardus) with king Edward I at the beginning of the Magna Carta., Vetera Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), including the Magna Carta, etc., imperfect

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Decorated initial 'F'(et)., Vetera Statuta (index Statuta Angliae; Statute book; Statutes of England)

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Calligraphic initial 'O'(n)., Various legal tracts

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Large puzzle initial 'Q'(ue)., De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Decorated initial 'E'(dward)., Treatise on the Laws of England (also known as Britton, and the Proposiciones digestorum (imperfect)) (index Liber de Legibus Angliae; De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae)

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Decorated initial 'A'(bsolucio) with pen-flourishing including foliate motifs at the beginning of the alphabetical index., 'Veritas theologie', a theological treatise

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Puzzle initial 'H'(enricus)., Various legal texts, including Statutes of England (index Statute book, Statuta Angliae)

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Decorated initial 'D'(ist) with pen-flourishing including a hybrid creature., Vetera statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book)(ends imperfectly)

marginal annotations added upside down, 14th or 15th century (e. g. ff. 46v, 48v, 131v).John Batteley (b. c.1646, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary; bought in 1723 through his nephew, John Batteley, by Edward Harley, along with other

• ~Bas-de-page~ of the Nativity, with a Dominican friar kneeling in the foreground and the Shepherds in the background (middle miniature)., Cutting from a Dominican manuscript

a Dominican friar kneeling in the foreground and the Shepherds in the background. Cutting from a Dominican manuscript ?A Dominican church, possibly San Domenico in Bologna: kneeling Dominican friars in the present cutting and those formerly in the Holford Collection

• Puzzle initial 'E'(dwardus) with foliate motifs and a hybrid creature., Statuta Angliae (index Statutes of England; Statuta Angliae, Statute book)

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Decorated foliate initial 'A'(dventus) at the beginning of Florus's Epitome bellorum, and foliate border with heraldic arms., Epitome bellorum omnium annorum DCC

Decorated foliate initial 'A'(dventus) at the beginning of Florus's Epitome bellorum, and foliate border with heraldic arms. 1 large foliate initial in colours on a burnished punched gold ground (f. 1, perhaps 19th-century ?), with a three-sided border incorporating

• Text page of manumissions in Latin., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

St Petroc, Bodmin by the end of the 10th century: records of public manumissions at the high altar of the church were added in Anglo-Saxon minuscule in the 2nd half of the 10th and the 11th centuries. They include the