• Decorated initial 'A'(nno) with foliate forms, in a cartulary of Chertsey abbey., Register of Chertsey abbey

left for initials. Register of Chertsey abbey ? The Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Chertsey, Surrey, during the abbacy of John de Rutherwyk, including charters from 1307 to 1344; see ~Chertsey Cartularies~ p. iii.Henry Powle (bap. 1630, d. 1692), politician:

• Decorated initial 'N' and diagrams illustrating the text of John Holywood., Various theological and mathematical tracts, including the prose life of Cuthbert, incomplete (ff. 74-101v), 22 miracles of Cuthbert, the Brevis relatio

diagrams illustrating the text of John Holywood. Late medieval foliation in ink Arabic numerals.St Cuthbert was a seventh-century, English Christian leader, renowned for his ascetic practices and the miracles attributed to him during his lifetime and posthumously. Born in Northumbria

• null, Register of Chertsey abbey

left for initials. Register of Chertsey abbey ? The Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Chertsey, Surrey, during the abbacy of John de Rutherwyk, including charters from 1307 to 1344; see ~Chertsey Cartularies~ p. iii.Henry Powle (bap. 1630, d. 1692), politician:

• null, Register of Chertsey abbey

left for initials. Register of Chertsey abbey ? The Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Chertsey, Surrey, during the abbacy of John de Rutherwyk, including charters from 1307 to 1344; see ~Chertsey Cartularies~ p. iii.Henry Powle (bap. 1630, d. 1692), politician:

• Decorated initial 'N' in the text of John Holywood., Various theological and mathematical tracts, including the prose life of Cuthbert, incomplete (ff. 74-101v), 22 miracles of Cuthbert, the Brevis relatio

in the text of John Holywood. Late medieval foliation in ink Arabic numerals.St Cuthbert was a seventh-century, English Christian leader, renowned for his ascetic practices and the miracles attributed to him during his lifetime and posthumously. Born in Northumbria around

• Illuminated initial 'M' at the beginning of the prologue, with ownership inscriptions, including Lumley., Gospels, with the Glossa ordinaria

of Butterby, probably to be identified with Richard Lumley, 1st Viscount Lumley of Waterford (bap. 1589, d. 1661), to whom John Lumley had entailed the lands and castle of Lumley in 1607: inscribed 'Recheard Lumley of buterbe in the conte

• Historiated initial 'I'(nicium) of Mark holding a book in the upper register and a lion, his symbol, holding a scroll, in the lower register, at the beginning of Mark., Gospels, with the Glossa ordinaria

of Butterby, probably to be identified with Richard Lumley, 1st Viscount Lumley of Waterford (bap. 1589, d. 1661), to whom John Lumley had entailed the lands and castle of Lumley in 1607: inscribed 'Recheard Lumley of buterbe in the conte

• Text page with coloured initials and line-fillers, and a portion of a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to Sir John Bridges, Lieutenant of the Tower (continued from f. 76): '… youres as the lorde knoweth as a frende Jane Duddeley'., Lady Jane Grey's Prayer book

a message written in the margin by Lady Jane Grey to Sir John Bridges, Lieutenant of the Tower (continued from f. 76): '… youres as the lorde knoweth as a frende Jane Duddeley'. Contains prayers extracted from Richard Taverner's translation

• Puzzle initial 'O'(mnibus), at the beginning of the Historia Mongalorum., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica (see notes for complete list)

to Richard, count of Poitou, beginning 'A [multis] requisitus et multociens', and the revised version of the dedication to King John of England (ff. 58v-106v);Philomela, the poem on the voices of birds and beasts ascribed to Ovid in the 16th-century

• Detail of a miniature of two episodes from a legend of the priest of Ulster and the wolf, in the lower margin; on the left, a priest talks to a wolf near a roaring fire; on the right, the priest follows the wolf., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Detail of a miniature of three episodes from a legend of the priest of Ulster and the wolf, in the lower margin: the priest of Ulster approached by the wolf; the priest led by the wolf; and brought to its female partner to administer the viaticum., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Detail of a miniature of the naked bearded woman of Limerick seated on a rock with a spindle, near the naked man-ox of Wicklow, who is being given a round object by another man., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Miniature of the naked bearded woman of Limerick seated on a rock with a spindle, near the naked man-ox of Wicklow, who is being given a round object by another man., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Detail of a miniature of a bird perched on a building, and a man with the tame falcon of Kildare killing prey; miniature of a scribe writing the miraculous Gospels of Kildare, in the lower margin of the folio., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Miniatures of a man kneeling by the crucified Christ at the Crucifix of Dublin, an archer who crossed the hedge of Brigid, blowing on her fire, and a man drinking from a river, in the lower margin of the folio., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Detail of miniatures of a man kneeling by the crucified Christ at the Crucifix of Dublin, an archer who crossed the hedge of Brigid, blowing on her fire, and a man drinking from a river, in the lower margin of the folio., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Ownership inscription of a Franciscan convent, Canterbury, reading 'Iste liber est de communitate fr[atru]m minorum Cantuarie', and a 16th-century note describing the manuscript as the first volume of a Bible in 8 volumes, and referring to the set of books, now Royal 3 E I-V, VII-VIII, reading 'In this Bible withe a glosse and Com[m]entairies are 8 volumes and / in them are contayned Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numeri, / Deuteronomie, Esaye, Jeremye, Ezachiel, Daniel, Job, Psalmi / Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Cantica, Sapientia, Ecclesiasticus, Osee, / Joel, Amos, abdias, Jonas, Micheas, Nahum, Abacuc, Sophonias, / Aggeus, Zacharye, Malachye, Machabees, Matheum, Marc, / Luke, John, Act. Apost., Epist. Ad Romanos 1, ad Cotinth. 2, ad Galat. 1,/ ad Ephes. 1, ad Philipp. 1, ad Colocess. 1, ad Thessal 2, ad Thimoth 2., /ad Titu[m] 1, ad Philemonem 1, ad Hebreos 1, Jacobi 1, Petri 2, Joh[ann]is 3, / Juda 1, Apocalipse. Mss these are bounde in redde lether prynted./ Memorandum that in an other sute of the same order bounde in white lether in / 7 volumes you maye supplye yor wante of these followinge Josue, Judic. / Esdras, Ruth, Tobias, Hester. (added) ved. 3 E I-VIII./ So you wante in bothe only the bookes of Kinges and Chronicles. / Wherefore I woulde wishe yt bothe these fortes be kepte whollye and entierely / togither, that the one maye supplie / the wante of the other.', Genesis and Exodus, with the Glossa ordinaria

Ecclesiasticus, Osee, / Joel, Amos, abdias, Jonas, Micheas, Nahum, Abacuc, Sophonias, / Aggeus, Zacharye, Malachye, Machabees, Matheum, Marc, / Luke, John, Act. Apost., Epist. Ad Romanos 1, ad Cotinth. 2, ad Galat. 1,/ ad Ephes. 1, ad Philipp. 1, ad

• A miniature of three episodes from a legend of the priest of Ulster and the wolf, in the lower margin: the priest of Ulster approached by the wolf; the priest led by the wolf; and brought to its female partner to administer the viaticum., Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, Itinerarium Kambriae; De purgatorio sancti Patrici, Excerpts from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea

c. 1375-c. 1420, no. 906 (see St Augustine's Abbey 2008). John Twyne (b. c.1505, d. 1581), schoolmaster and antiquary, perhaps owned by him: inscribed 'Twyne' in the hand of John Dee, antiquary (b. 1527, d.1609), in the entry of the

• Coloured initial 'Q'(uid) at the beginning of Psalm 51., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

Eadburga invoked in a prayer to the Virgin added at the beginning of the 11th century (f. 1r-1v); noted by John Leland c. 1536-40 ( (see ~J. Lelandi antiquarii de rebus Britannicis Collectanea~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1715), IV, p. 148).Added Hours

• Coloured initial 'B'(eatus) with display script, at the beginning of Psalm 1, with the pressmark of Christ Church, Canterbury 'r', and ownership inscriptions of Thomas Cranmer and Lord Lumley., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

Eadburga invoked in a prayer to the Virgin added at the beginning of the 11th century (f. 1r-1v); noted by John Leland c. 1536-40 ( (see ~J. Lelandi antiquarii de rebus Britannicis Collectanea~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1715), IV, p. 148).Added Hours