• Designs for initials (letters G-M)., Pattern, sketch, or model book

15th-century: 'Young' and monogram 'I H' with effaced text (f. 29v). Inscribed several names, 16th-century: 'William Brome' (f. 3), 'Johannes', 'John & framyng', 'Richarde' (f. 4), 'Richardus Bowle' (ff. 8, 26v, 29), 'Thomas / Henry / William / Johannes /

• Designs for anthropomorphic initials (letters K-P)., Pattern, sketch, or model book

15th-century: 'Young' and monogram 'I H' with effaced text (f. 29v). Inscribed several names, 16th-century: 'William Brome' (f. 3), 'Johannes', 'John & framyng', 'Richarde' (f. 4), 'Richardus Bowle' (ff. 8, 26v, 29), 'Thomas / Henry / William / Johannes /

• Designs for initials (letters Q-Y)., Pattern, sketch, or model book

15th-century: 'Young' and monogram 'I H' with effaced text (f. 29v). Inscribed several names, 16th-century: 'William Brome' (f. 3), 'Johannes', 'John & framyng', 'Richarde' (f. 4), 'Richardus Bowle' (ff. 8, 26v, 29), 'Thomas / Henry / William / Johannes /

• Detail of a historiated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with Augustine in a bishop's mitre holding a bishop's staff and a heart, Manuale (ff. 2-46v), Retractiones (extract), De beata vita (ff. 47-86v); and Psalms, Prayers, Litanies

Detail of a historiated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with Augustine in a bishop's mitre holding a bishop's staff and a heart The litany including saints Swithin, Dunstan, Edith, and Etheldreda.Watermark, f. 1, of a quartered coat of arms, similar to ~Monumenta

• Illuminated initial 'M'(arcus) at the beginning of the prologue to Mark., Glossed Gospel of Mark

the Abbey of Chck in Essex which was dedicated to S. Osith (f. 1).William Smarte: above-cited ownership inscription (f. 100v).? John Somers (b. 1651, d. 1716), Baron Somers, lawyer and politician: 1738 note written by James West that it once

• Coloured initial 'N'(u) in red with green penwork decoration., West Saxon Gospels (the 'Wessex Gospels')

Coloured initial 'N'(u) in red with green penwork decoration. Copied, directly or indirectly, from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 441, omitting some passages due to defects in the Bodley manuscript (Marc 16:14-20, Luke 16:14- 17:1, and 24: 51-53). The first

• marginal drawing of a hand pulling a fish from the water., De Diversis quaestionibus LXXXIII, Sermo ad catechumenos de symbolo, De agone christiano, De poenitentibus (serm. 393); De XII abusiuis saeculi, Hypomnesticon contra pelagianos et caelestianos, Sermo de oratione dominica; Sermo de cataclismo (no. 7), Sermo de cantico novo (no. 5), Sermones de symbolo; Contra Felicianum arianum; De fide orthodoxa; Extractio; Naturales questiones and Epistulae morales; excerpts from Cicero; Liber quaestionum hebraicarum in Genesim and De XLII mansionibus filiorum Israel in deserto; Liber hebraicorum quaestionum in Samuelem et Paralipomenon; De templo Salomonis and In libros Regum questiones XXX

393) (f. 84v);Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo de oratione dominica (serm. 58) (f. 84v) (all texts are attributed to Augustine in the manuscript); John of Damascus trad. by Burgundio of Pisa, De fide orthodoxa (ff. 85-107v); Thomas Gallus, 'Extractio' (attributed here to Dionysius

• Marginal drawing of a walking man., De Diversis quaestionibus LXXXIII, Sermo ad catechumenos de symbolo, De agone christiano, De poenitentibus (serm. 393); De XII abusiuis saeculi, Hypomnesticon contra pelagianos et caelestianos, Sermo de oratione dominica; Sermo de cataclismo (no. 7), Sermo de cantico novo (no. 5), Sermones de symbolo; Contra Felicianum arianum; De fide orthodoxa; Extractio; Naturales questiones and Epistulae morales; excerpts from Cicero; Liber quaestionum hebraicarum in Genesim and De XLII mansionibus filiorum Israel in deserto; Liber hebraicorum quaestionum in Samuelem et Paralipomenon; De templo Salomonis and In libros Regum questiones XXX

393) (f. 84v);Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo de oratione dominica (serm. 58) (f. 84v) (all texts are attributed to Augustine in the manuscript); John of Damascus trad. by Burgundio of Pisa, De fide orthodoxa (ff. 85-107v); Thomas Gallus, 'Extractio' (attributed here to Dionysius

• Historiated initial 'O'(sculetur) of Christ embracing the Virgin, at the beginning of the Gilbert Foliot's Commentary on the Song of Solomon., Commentary on the Song of Solomon

the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the select list of works noted by John Bale, of c. 1548; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 3; and in the 1698 catalogue

• Coloured initials 'Q'(uanta) and I(ordmare), with geometric line-fillers in red., Vita S. Gregorii Papae; Versus S. Gregorii

(a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Coloured initials John the Deacon (index: Johannis Levitae, Hymonides) England

• Ownership inscription on the opening page., Moralia in Job, books 24-35

moralium. Quam scripsit Sifridus canonicus sancte marie sanctique nicolai in arenstein' (f. 1). A near contemporary hand century hand added John the Deacon's Vita S. Gregorii papae (f. 1). Notes in later hands including that of abbot Heinrich Schupp (d.

• Two large initials, 'Q' and 'L', with pen-flourishing., Versus de laude crucis; Versus morales; Versus de missa (ff. 10-18)

f[ra]tris H[e]nr[ici] de Kirkested, in quo continet[ur] narracio sumpta de libro qui uocatur Suda' and his initials (f. 72v).All parts: John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 2); listed

• Music to Kyrie Eleison and St Godric's Hymns., Epistola and Apologia

129-130) Initials in green or red, some with penwork decoration in the other colour. Rubrics in red. Epistola and Apologia John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 2); listed

• Music to Kyrie Eleison and St Godric's Hymns in English., Epistola and Apologia

129-130) Initials in green or red, some with penwork decoration in the other colour. Rubrics in red. Epistola and Apologia John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 2); listed

• Flyleaf with ownership inscription of the Augustinian monastery of Bristol and contents list., De vita contemplativa (f. 3); Sermones (f. 58); Tractatus de obedientia (f. 59); Sermones (f. 61); Homiliae (f. 66v); De tribus habitaculis animae (f. 81v); Anonymous commentary on the Psalms (f. 86v)

Flyleaf with ownership inscription of the Augustinian monastery of Bristol and contents list. Jerome's 'Tractatus de oboedientia', as identified by Sharpe, is attributed to Augustine in this manuscript.Patrick, Bishop of Dublin (1074-1084) has been identified as the author of

• Text page with initial 'D'(iu) and rubric at the beginning of the prologue., De vita contemplativa (f. 3); Sermones (f. 58); Tractatus de obedientia (f. 59); Sermones (f. 61); Homiliae (f. 66v); De tribus habitaculis animae (f. 81v); Anonymous commentary on the Psalms (f. 86v)

Text page with initial 'D'(iu) and rubric at the beginning of the prologue. Jerome's 'Tractatus de oboedientia', as identified by Sharpe, is attributed to Augustine in this manuscript.Patrick, Bishop of Dublin (1074-1084) has been identified as the author of

• Drawing of a circle, representing the scheme of the heptarchy, with seven spheres surrounding a central one., The Scheme of the Heptarchy (f. 40), the Roman de Brut (ff. 40-113), the Estoire des Engles (ff. 113-150) (index Estoire des Engleis)

14); included in the list of manuscripts from Lincolnshire houses entitled 'de historiis antiquitatum ac divinitate tractancium', perhaps composed by John Longland, bishop of Lincoln and confessor of Henry VIII, Royal Appendix 69, f. 2 (see Carley 2000).Part 4 (ff.

• Detail of a 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., Psalter, in the Gallican version, and canticles (ff. 168v-180v) with continuous English glosses, imperfect

date 'May 17 1638' and 'imprimatur' (f. 180v) for the 1640 edition of the Psalter made by his son, Sir John Spelman (b. 1594, d. 1643), royalist author.Walter Clavell, F. R.S., elected 1704, admitted to the Inner Temple in 1700,

• Detail of a decorated initial 'D' with interlace and animal heads, at the beginning of Psalm 101., Psalter, in the Gallican version, and canticles (ff. 168v-180v) with continuous English glosses, imperfect

date 'May 17 1638' and 'imprimatur' (f. 180v) for the 1640 edition of the Psalter made by his son, Sir John Spelman (b. 1594, d. 1643), royalist author.Walter Clavell, F. R.S., elected 1704, admitted to the Inner Temple in 1700,

• Detail of a decorated initial 'Q'(uid) with a dragon and animal head, at the beginning of Psalm 51., Psalter, in the Gallican version, and canticles (ff. 168v-180v) with continuous English glosses, imperfect

date 'May 17 1638' and 'imprimatur' (f. 180v) for the 1640 edition of the Psalter made by his son, Sir John Spelman (b. 1594, d. 1643), royalist author.Walter Clavell, F. R.S., elected 1704, admitted to the Inner Temple in 1700,