• Historiated initial 'U' with an angel holding a book, a knight with a shield and spear, a crouching man, and a dragon's head forming part of the letter., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

Church, Canterbury (see f. 2; Gameson 1999 p. 94).Dover Priory, by 14th century: inscribed with its press mark 'D VII' and title (f. 2); included in the 1389 catalogue.John Joscelin [Joscelyn] (b. 1529, d. 1603), Old English scholar and

• Decorated initial 'A'(usculta) with a foliate motif, in colours, at the beginning of the Benedictine Rule., Martyrology (ff. 14-132), Benedictine Rule, list of founders and benefactors, litany, imperfect at the beginning

first abbot, Rodulphe or Ralph, an Englishman (d. 1152); punctus flexus punctuation marks; the feast of the dedication of the church added in the margin (f. 116v); documents relating to the abbey (f. 204).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley

• Coloured initial 'D'(ominus), at the beginning of book 9 of the Liber scintillarum., Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses

and green. Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses The Benedictine priory of Holy Trinity, or Christ Church, Canterbury: inscribed, 'De claustro X[risti] / cantuarie', 13th century (f. 1); included in the catalogue of Henry of Eastry

• Coloured initial 'D'(ominus), at the beginning of book 10 of the Liber scintillarum., Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses

and green. Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses The Benedictine priory of Holy Trinity, or Christ Church, Canterbury: inscribed, 'De claustro X[risti] / cantuarie', 13th century (f. 1); included in the catalogue of Henry of Eastry

• 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

• Decorated initial 'D'(ominus) and words 'dixit in evangelio' in a collection of homilies., Homilies and other theological texts

Rubrics in red, or sometimes brown with yellow and silver decoration. Later maniculae. Homilies and other theological texts ? The church of St Kilian, Würzburg (see Gwynn 1952 p. 64).The abbey of St James (St Jacob zu den Schotten), Würzburg

• Decorated initials 'Q'(ui), 'D'(ominus), and 'Q'(uod), in a collection of homilies., Homilies and other theological texts

Rubrics in red, or sometimes brown with yellow and silver decoration. Later maniculae. Homilies and other theological texts ? The church of St Kilian, Würzburg (see Gwynn 1952 p. 64).The abbey of St James (St Jacob zu den Schotten), Würzburg

• Puzzle initial, at the beginning of Michel de Northgate's Ayenbite of Inwyt., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• Flourished initial., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• Flourished initials., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• Decorated initials., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• Decorated initial., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• Detail of an historiated initial 'V'(idi) of a bishop sprinkling holy water on a church with a liturgical spoon; behind him a deacon stands next to a font of holy water and holds a hyssop, with a partial bar border including grotesques and hybrids., Breviary, Use of Sarum with Norwich variants ('The Stowe Breviary')

a bishop sprinkling holy water on a church with a liturgical spoon; behind him a deacon stands next to a font of holy water and holds a hyssop, with a partial bar border including grotesques and hybrids. 46 large historiated

• Detail of an historiated initial 'V'(idi) of a bishop sprinkling holy water on a church with a liturgical spoon; behind him a deacon stands next to a font of holy water and holds a hyssop, with a partial bar border including grotesques and hybrids., Breviary, Use of Sarum with Norwich variants ('The Stowe Breviary')

a bishop sprinkling holy water on a church with a liturgical spoon; behind him a deacon stands next to a font of holy water and holds a hyssop, with a partial bar border including grotesques and hybrids. 46 large historiated

• Miniature of the Crucifixion, with the Virgin and John the Evangelist, at the beginning of the Te igitur in a Missal., Missal

147. Missal The cathedral of St. Kylian, Würzburg, between 1443 and 1455: the calendar includes the dedication of the old church of Würzburg (26 July), in black, and the feasts of Kylian, its octave (8 and 15 July), and the

• Historiated initial 'V'(idi) of a bishop sprinkling holy water on a church with a liturgical spoon; behind him a deacon stands next to a font of holy water and holds a hyssop, with a partial bar border including grotesques and hybrids., Breviary, Use of Sarum with Norwich variants ('The Stowe Breviary')

bishop sprinkling holy water on a church with a liturgical spoon; behind him a deacon stands next to a font of holy water and holds a hyssop, with a partial bar border including grotesques and hybrids. 46 large historiated initials,

• Detail of a miniature of John the Baptist pointing to the Lamb of God in a landscape, at the beginning of the reading for the feast of John the Baptist., Epistle Lectionary

in gold with black pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Epistle Lectionary The London city church of St Mary Aldermanbury: presented to the church by Stephen Jenyns (b. c.1450, d.1523), administrator, merchant, and lord mayor of London (1508-9) and

• Initial 'A' with penwork decoration, Sermons, letters and tracts

or blue at the beginning of lines and verses (ff. 60-89). Rubrics in red. Sermons, letters and tracts The Cathedral Church of St Mary, Salisbury: probably to be identified with no. 155 in Patrick Young's 1622 catalogue of the cathedral

• Historiated initial 'I' of a saint., Cuttings from a choir book

the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 29902.Musical notation. 11 historiated initials in colours and gold, of the dedication of a church (f. 3a); Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (f. 3b); the Nativity and the Annunciation to the Shepherds (f. 3c); a

• Historiated initial 'L' of a deacon saint in an act of charity., Cuttings from a choir book

the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 29902.Musical notation. 11 historiated initials in colours and gold, of the dedication of a church (f. 3a); Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (f. 3b); the Nativity and the Annunciation to the Shepherds (f. 3c); a