• Puzzle initial 'P'(ostquam) with a full I-border, at the beginning of the Historia de Veteri Testamento., Historia romana; Commentary on Chronicles; Historia de Veteri Testamento, Cronica Veteris Testamenti, Libellus de remediis animae; Commentary on Jeremiah with glossary, Commentary on Mark; extract from Augustine's Soloiloquia

from Augustine's Soloiloquia (ff. 250v-251).Catchwords and bifolium signatures. 1 historiated initials in colours and gold of Paul Deacon, with a partial bar border, at the beginning of the Historia Romana (f. 1). 3 foliate initials in colours and gold with

• Puzzle initial 'A'(ntiquitus) with marginal extensions, at the beginning of the Libellus de remediis animae., Historia romana; Commentary on Chronicles; Historia de Veteri Testamento, Cronica Veteris Testamenti, Libellus de remediis animae; Commentary on Jeremiah with glossary, Commentary on Mark; extract from Augustine's Soloiloquia

from Augustine's Soloiloquia (ff. 250v-251).Catchwords and bifolium signatures. 1 historiated initials in colours and gold of Paul Deacon, with a partial bar border, at the beginning of the Historia Romana (f. 1). 3 foliate initials in colours and gold with

• Initial 'R' at the beginning of the section of the text of words beginning with R, accompanied by a bas-de-page scene of an archer about to shoot an arrow at the exposed buttocks of another man., Summa Grammaticalis (index Catholicon)

1 full band and bar border, with illuminated interlace knots and foliate sprigs (f. 1), and many other partial bar foliate borders, usually illuminated and painted in rose and blue. 3 large historiated initials (ff. 1, 198, and 232).

• An added fifteenth century inscription at the end of the text stating that the book belongs to the priory of regular canons of St. Wulfhad's, Stone, as the gift of Gilbert de Stone, canon of Wells (d. by 1417)., Summa Grammaticalis (index Catholicon)

1 full band and bar border, with illuminated interlace knots and foliate sprigs (f. 1), and many other partial bar foliate borders, usually illuminated and painted in rose and blue. 3 large historiated initials (ff. 1, 198, and 232).

• Historiated initial 'U'(lpianus) with the portrait of the Roman jurist Ulpian, at the beginning of book 16 of the Digestorum Juris Civilis., Glossed Digestorum Juris Civilis (vol. 2)

on the final verso (ff. 14v, 24v, etc.).Sketch of a man in the margin (f. 162). ff. 3-6v: Spaces for 1 large miniature and 2 large initials (f. 3). Small initials in red with blue or purple penwork decoration or

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) with a man holding a book, at the beginning of book 28 of the De operis libertorum., Glossed Digestorum Juris Civilis (vol. 2)

on the final verso (ff. 14v, 24v, etc.).Sketch of a man in the margin (f. 162). ff. 3-6v: Spaces for 1 large miniature and 2 large initials (f. 3). Small initials in red with blue or purple penwork decoration or

• Decorated foliate initial 'U'(lpianus), at the beginning of book 29 of the Digestorum Juris Civilis., Glossed Digestorum Juris Civilis (vol. 2)

on the final verso (ff. 14v, 24v, etc.).Sketch of a man in the margin (f. 162). ff. 3-6v: Spaces for 1 large miniature and 2 large initials (f. 3). Small initials in red with blue or purple penwork decoration or

• Decorated initial 'B'(eatus) with foliated and interlace decoration, and animal heads and an animal mask at the beginning of Psalm 1, with the Old English gloss erased and corrected, visible in darker ink, and the ownership inscription of Sir Henry Spelman in the upper margin., Psalter, in the Gallican version, and canticles (ff. 168v-180v) with continuous English glosses, imperfect

foliate and/or interlace decoration and animal heads, a dragon, and/or animal masks at the beginning of Psalms 1, 51, and 101 (ff. 1, 56, 111v). Large initials in blue, green, purple, or red (some of the red oxidised), and a

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) with a man holding a book, at the beginning of book 28 of the De operis libertorum., Glossed Digestorum Juris Civilis (vol. 2)

on the final verso (ff. 14v, 24v, etc.).Sketch of a man in the margin (f. 162). ff. 3-6v: Spaces for 1 large miniature and 2 large initials (f. 3). Small initials in red with blue or purple penwork decoration or

• Decorated foliate initial 'U'(lpianus), at the beginning of book 29 of the Digestorum Juris Civilis., Glossed Digestorum Juris Civilis (vol. 2)

on the final verso (ff. 14v, 24v, etc.).Sketch of a man in the margin (f. 162). ff. 3-6v: Spaces for 1 large miniature and 2 large initials (f. 3). Small initials in red with blue or purple penwork decoration or

• Historiated initial 'U'(lpianus) with the portrait of the Roman jurist Ulpian, at the beginning of book 16 of the Digestorum Juris Civilis., Glossed Digestorum Juris Civilis (vol. 2)

on the final verso (ff. 14v, 24v, etc.).Sketch of a man in the margin (f. 162). ff. 3-6v: Spaces for 1 large miniature and 2 large initials (f. 3). Small initials in red with blue or purple penwork decoration or

• One large initial 'P'(er) with penwork decoration at the beginning of extract from Augustine's Retractationes and one large initial 'O'(mnis) with stems and foliate motifs at the beginning of Augustine's De Genesi ad litteram, both followed by display script., Excerpt from Retractationes (f. 1); De Genesi ad litteram (ff. 1-126); De situ orbis Jerusalem (ff. 126-127)

has (blank) medallions in the four corners (f. 2v). 1 large initial, with stems and foliate motifs, outlined in black and red, on a red, blue and green ground, for book 1 of De Genesi ad litteram (f. 3). 12

• Historiated initial 'I'(n) with a doctor (Avicenna)., Canon medicinae, Books I, II, and V

initials on coloured grounds with occasional marginal extensions. Border and display capitals of the title in red and blue (f. 1). Rubrics in red. Paraphs and running titles in red and blue. Small initials occasionally highlighted in red. Canon medicinae,

• Historiated initial 'A'(nno) with an abbot holding a crosier, and full border with faces in diamond shapes, at the beginning of a cartulary of Chertsey abbey., Register of Chertsey abbey

1 unfoliated parchment leaf after each of ff. 26, 44, 72, 76, 82, 113, 123, 126, 134, 166, 198, 211, and 2 after f. 28.Guide letters.ff. 5-8 are parchment flyleaves. 1 full border in colours with faces (f. 9).

• Decorated initials 'D'(e) and 'H'(ec) with faces in the bowl of the letters, in Eberhard of Béthune's Graecismus., Graecismus with gloss

of Béthune's Graecismus. Puzzle initial in brown and red, with brown and red penwork decoration (f. 1). Large initials in red, some with a green wash, or brown penwork decoration, and some with brown ink faces in the bowls. Paraphs

• Pen-flourished initials., De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ, in five books, imperfect

noted in a modern cursive hand on ff. 60v, 62. 1 very large puzzle initial in blue and gold with a partial bar border in red, blue and gold (f. 1). Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing and in blue

• Historiated initial 'V'(erba mea auribus percipe Domine) at Psalm 5., Office of the Dead (Officium defunctorum)

and corrections in a modern hand ff. 16, 28v, 29v. 1 very large initial in red and brown with the face of a bearded man or demon 'V'(erba) (f. 1). Plain initials in red, some large, some small. Rubrics in

• Ownership inscription of the benedictine abbey of Camaldoli, near Poppi in Arezzo province: ‘Iste e(st) fr(atru)m s(an)c(t)i B(e)n(e)d(ict)i ordi(ni)s [last word erased:] Camaldule(n)sis’., 16 homilies on Genesis (ff. 1v-51); 13 homilies on Exodus (ff. 51-90v)

inscribed ‘Iste e(st) fr(atru)m s(an)c(t)i B(e)n(e)d(ict)i ordi(ni)s [last word erased:] Camaldule(n)sis’ (f. 90v); traces of further erased ownership inscriptions (f. 1); cf. Egerton 3036 and Yates Thompson 40, both Camaldolese manuscripts).Mr White: his sale, 5 December 1814, lot 564, bought

• Text page with quire signature and catchword, and a space left for the initial 'M', in Origen's homily on Exodus., 16 homilies on Genesis (ff. 1v-51); 13 homilies on Exodus (ff. 51-90v)

inscribed ‘Iste e(st) fr(atru)m s(an)c(t)i B(e)n(e)d(ict)i ordi(ni)s [last word erased:] Camaldule(n)sis’ (f. 90v); traces of further erased ownership inscriptions (f. 1); cf. Egerton 3036 and Yates Thompson 40, both Camaldolese manuscripts).Mr White: his sale, 5 December 1814, lot 564, bought

• Historiated initial 'F'(uit) depicting a saint holding a book, presumably Benedict, at the beginning of Book 2 of Gregory the Great's Dialogues., Dialogi

Dialogues. 4 large historiated initials in colours and gold, with foliate marginal extensions, at the beginning of each book (ff. 1, 22, 44, 76). Small initials alternately red with purple flourishing, or blue with red flourishing. One-line initials in blue