• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(ost) of a personification of Poverty clothing the naked and a personification of Greed stealing (or hoarding) a money bag, from Guillelmus Alvernus's De moribus., De moribus (second part of De virtutibus et vitiis)

and founder of insurance offices: his stamp (f. 1); probably given to the New Philosophical Institution, founded shortly before his death. The New Philosophical Institution, Beaumont Square, Mile End: stamps (ff. 1, 174v). Sir John Trelawny: his sale, 28 June

• Decorated initials 'P'(rimo) and 'B'(eatus) with partial borders with dragons and a bird, and musical notation., Miscellany, including a Psalter, prayers, litany and canticles, and hymns (ff. 1-68v); Ci commence Avicennes (ff. 69-142v); the Lettre d'Hippocrate (ff. 143-147v); prayers to Margaret (ff. 146v-147) and Psalms

and gold (ff. 1, 8, 12v, 16, 20, 29, 33, 48). 9 large initials in colours and gold with foliate decoration and dragons or animal heads, at the Psalter divisions and the start of texts (ff. 1, 8, 12v, 16,

• Text page with six champ initials:'V'(oluntarie), 'Q'(oniam), 'G'(loria), 'B'(enedixisti), 'R'(emisisti), 'M'(itigasti)., Book of Hours, Use of Rome, imperfect

red: Jacque 1 Mai, James the Minor, Eloy (x2; Paris and Northern France (Noyon, Tournai)), Christophe, Betremieu (Bartholomew), Mahieu, Mikiel, Martin, Clement, Nicolay, Nicaise (Rheims); in black ink, Vaast (Arras), Wandrille, Wambourt (Waubourg? , Rheims), Wulfram, Wallery (1 April and

• Cancelled first leaf with various erasures, prefixed as a flyleaf. The other side has been left blank, and the space left for an initial has not been filled in. This leaf was abandoned, and the text re-written on the following one, which is now the start of the book., Sermons, beginning, 'Hodie nobis dominus patrem cum filiis duobus vocavit'

might have been copied from an exemplar from Durham, with an initial in the style of the so-called 'Martyrology scribe.'f. 1 is a cancelled first leaf with various erasures, prefixed as a flyleaf. At f. 30v a short passage is

• Detail of an historiated initial 'I(n diebus)' of Ahasuerus and Esther, with Haman hanging below, at the beginning of Esther., Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Esdras, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Maccabees 1-2, with the Glossa Ordinaria

82v, 103, 123v, 135v, 150v, 160v, 212v). 6 foliate initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of prologues (ff. 1, 82, 123v, 135, 150, 160). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in

• Historiated initial ‘E’(t) of the Jewish warrior, Eleazar Avran, disemboweling an elephant; with a sketch for the artist is visible in the left margin, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Esdras, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Maccabees 1-2, with the Glossa Ordinaria

82v, 103, 123v, 135v, 150v, 160v, 212v). 6 foliate initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of prologues (ff. 1, 82, 123v, 135, 150, 160). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in

• End of the text, and an inscription recording the number of decorated initials in the manuscript., Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Esdras, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Maccabees 1-2, with the Glossa Ordinaria

82v, 103, 123v, 135v, 150v, 160v, 212v). 6 foliate initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of prologues (ff. 1, 82, 123v, 135, 150, 160). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in

• Decorated initial 'I'(nvestitura) with a hybrid., Libri Feudorum, with the Glossa ordinaria

anathema] sit. Amen' (f. 1) (see Warner and Gilson).Added list of contents of the Tres libri, 14th-century English hand (ff. 264-265) .The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1356' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Foliate initial 'R'(egalie) and an initial 'I'(mperator) with a grotesque., Libri Feudorum, with the Glossa ordinaria

anathema] sit. Amen' (f. 1) (see Warner and Gilson).Added list of contents of the Tres libri, 14th-century English hand (ff. 264-265) .The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1356' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Initial 'I'(n epistula) of a man with a knife., Libri Feudorum, with the Glossa ordinaria

anathema] sit. Amen' (f. 1) (see Warner and Gilson).Added list of contents of the Tres libri, 14th-century English hand (ff. 264-265) .The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1356' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Miniature of a king and two plaintiffs, and a foliate initial 'Q'(uia), at the beginning of Libri Feudorum., Libri Feudorum, with the Glossa ordinaria

anathema] sit. Amen' (f. 1) (see Warner and Gilson).Added list of contents of the Tres libri, 14th-century English hand (ff. 264-265) .The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1356' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Puzzle initial with full border., Legenda aurea (index Legendae sanctorum; Legends of the saints; Golden Legend)

from Baynes catalogue pasted onto f. 1*.ff. 1*-2* are paper flyleaves. 1 large puzzle initial in blue and red, with red and blue pen-flourishing forming a full border (f. 1). Large initials in blue or red with red and blue

• Historiated initial 'P'(revaricatus) with King Ahaziah falling from a tower at the beginning of IV Kings (II Samuel)., Bible (vol. 1, from Genesis to the Psalms)

Capitals marked in red (ff. 139-142). Bible (vol. 1, from Genesis to the Psalms) Added prologue to Genesis (ff. 1-4v) written in an imitative 14th-century hand, the large initial on f. 1 is in a different style to the historiated

• Historiated initial 'L'(ocutus) with Moses with the Tablets of the Law, conversing with two men, at the beginning of Numbers., Bible (vol. 1, from Genesis to the Psalms)

Capitals marked in red (ff. 139-142). Bible (vol. 1, from Genesis to the Psalms) Added prologue to Genesis (ff. 1-4v) written in an imitative 14th-century hand, the large initial on f. 1 is in a different style to the historiated

• Decorated initial 'O'(mne)., Miscellany of devotional and theological texts, including De statu interioris hominis post lapsum, a treatise relating to penance, and the Summula confessionis (imperfect)

extrahere sanguinem in septimo die de dextro brachio', and ending 'quam diu vixeris vero lumen amittes'.ff. 1*, 1, 119, 120-122 are flyleaves with added texts and inscriptions.f. 12 bears the date 1263.f. 123 is a reused parchment leaf from a

• Champ initial 'L'(icet) combined with a three-sided bar border ending in foliate featherings., Historia destructionis Troiae (index Historia troiana; History of the Trojan war; De casu troiae; De bello troiano)

p[ri]me indictionis felicit[er]' (f. 180v). Initial in colours and gold with a three-sided bar border ending in foliate featherings (f. 1). Initials in blue, occasionally with reserved lines, with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Some ascenders decorated with cadels. Historia

• Puzzle initial 'F'(orma), at the beginning of Gilbertus Porretanus's Liber de sex principiis., Translations of Aristotle, etc., and others, some with glosses

abbey of Mainz, 15th century: inscribed 'Ad kartusiam mog(unciam)' (f. 1); not listed in Sigrid Krämer, ~Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters~, 3 vols, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Supplement 1, ed. by Bernhard Bischoff (Munich: Beck, 1989-1990), II (1989).Unidentified owner(s),

• Puzzle initial 'D'(e sophisticis) and flourished heading, at the beginning of Boethius's translation of De sophisticis elenchis., Translations of Aristotle, etc., and others, some with glosses

abbey of Mainz, 15th century: inscribed 'Ad kartusiam mog(unciam)' (f. 1); not listed in Sigrid Krämer, ~Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters~, 3 vols, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Supplement 1, ed. by Bernhard Bischoff (Munich: Beck, 1989-1990), II (1989).Unidentified owner(s),

• Puzzle initial 'F'(orma), at the beginning of Gilbertus Porretanus's Liber de sex principiis., Translations of Aristotle, etc., and others, some with glosses

abbey of Mainz, 15th century: inscribed 'Ad kartusiam mog(unciam)' (f. 1); not listed in Sigrid Krämer, ~Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters~, 3 vols, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Supplement 1, ed. by Bernhard Bischoff (Munich: Beck, 1989-1990), II (1989).Unidentified owner(s),

• Puzzle initial 'D'(e sophisticis) and flourished heading, at the beginning of Boethius's translation of De sophisticis elenchis., Translations of Aristotle, etc., and others, some with glosses

abbey of Mainz, 15th century: inscribed 'Ad kartusiam mog(unciam)' (f. 1); not listed in Sigrid Krämer, ~Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters~, 3 vols, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, Supplement 1, ed. by Bernhard Bischoff (Munich: Beck, 1989-1990), II (1989).Unidentified owner(s),