• Calligraphic specimen with a large initial 'R'(icordare), and an illuminated border., Specimens of Calligraphy

(b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Calligraphic specimen Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini England

• Calligraphic specimen with a large initial 'T'(u) and an illuminated border, inscribed with the names of Henry Fitzalan, lord Maltravers, son of the 12th earl of Arundel, and of Petrucchio Ubaldini., Specimens of Calligraphy

(b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Calligraphic specimen Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini England

• Calligraphic specimen with a large initial 'I'(l) and an illuminated border., Specimens of Calligraphy

(b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Calligraphic specimen Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini England

• Calligraphic specimen with a large initial 'U'(n) and an illuminated border with the name and emblem of Daniel Barbaro., Specimens of Calligraphy

(b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Calligraphic specimen Petruccio Ubaldini Petruccio Ubaldini England

• Detail of a zoomorphic initial 'S'(illaba est) at the beginning of the second book., De octo partibus orationis, imperfect at the beginning (missing the preface and part of the table of contents)

(b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Zoomorphic initial Priscian England

• Decorated initial 'T'(enetis) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the twenty-seventh sermon., Sermones super Cantica canticorum

Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7867.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial Bernard of Clairvaux France England or France

• Framed zoomorphic initial 'V'(obis) with display script at the beginning of the first sermon., Sermones super Cantica canticorum

Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7867.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Zoomorphic initial Bernard of Clairvaux France England or France

• Large initial 'P'(utamus) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the seventeenth sermon., Sermones super Cantica canticorum

Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7867.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Large initial Bernard of Clairvaux France England or France

• Large puzzle initial 'F'(ulcite) with pen-flourished partial border at the beginning of the fifty-first sermon., Sermones super Cantica canticorum

Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7867.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Puzzle initial Bernard of Clairvaux France England or France

• Coloured initial., Homilies on the Evangelists, books 1 and 2

Coloured initial. Text written above top line.Running titles in red at the centre of the upper margins just above text.Occasional marginal annotations.Old foliation in Roman numerals at centre of upper margin on rectos. Large initials and rubrics in display

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul and heads of five men, at the beginning of the commentary to 1 Corinthians., Commentary on the Pauline Epistles

catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7980?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard England

• Miniature of Claude de France, accompanied by women of the Old Testament, and decorated initial 'T'(outes), in Le Sacre de Claude de France., Le Sacre de Claude de France

accompanied by women of the Old Testament, and decorated initial 'T'(outes), in Le Sacre de Claude de France. On Jean Coene IV see gnerally Eberhard König, ~Boccaccio und Petrarca in Paris~, Leuchtendes Mittelalter Neue Folge, (Passau: Passavia, 1997- ), I

• Coloured initial 'H'(er ys godspelles) in green with penwork decoration in red, with ownership inscriptions of Thomas Cranmer (Thomas Cantuarien[sis]) and John Lumley., West Saxon Gospels (the 'Wessex Gospels')

prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Coloured initial England, W.

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

prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Coloured initial England, W.

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

beg. 'Non est in altum elevata superbia.Part 4: The front flyleaf (f. 85) contains St Godric's hymns in early Middle English (northern dialect). The Latin translation is in a 14th-century hand.Part 5: The text contains the date 1204, therefore it

• Zoomorphic initial formed of a dragon and foliage. The inscription in reddish ink in the lower margin states that it is from Glastonbury Abbey, and names 'Robertus Wottone', one of its monks., Homiliary

or green. Homiliary The Benedictine abbey of St Mary, Glastonbury, Somerset: probably listed in its 1247/48 catalogue, no. 39 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996); 16th-century inscription 'Ex Abbatia Glasconiensis nam scripseret quidem folio finali: Roberto Wottone M. Glasconis (f. 1);

• Decorated initial 'P'(ost), with later underlining and marginal notations., Homiliary

or green. Homiliary The Benedictine abbey of St Mary, Glastonbury, Somerset: probably listed in its 1247/48 catalogue, no. 39 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996); 16th-century inscription 'Ex Abbatia Glasconiensis nam scripseret quidem folio finali: Roberto Wottone M. Glasconis (f. 1);

• Decorated initial 'B'(ritannia) at the beginning of Bede's text., Historia Ecclesiastica; Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae (ff. 173v-175v); tract on the resting places of English saints, imperfect

or purple. Numbers in red. Historia Ecclesiastica; Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae (ff. 173v-175v); tract on the resting places of English saints, imperfect The cathedral priority of St Andrew, Rochester: 12th or 13th-century inscription 'Liber Sancti Andree Roffensis ecclesiae' (f.

• Decorated initial 'H'(is) at the beginning of Book II., Historia Ecclesiastica; Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae (ff. 173v-175v); tract on the resting places of English saints, imperfect

or purple. Numbers in red. Historia Ecclesiastica; Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae (ff. 173v-175v); tract on the resting places of English saints, imperfect The cathedral priority of St Andrew, Rochester: 12th or 13th-century inscription 'Liber Sancti Andree Roffensis ecclesiae' (f.

• Decorated initial 'S'(uccessit) at the beginning of Book V. The roman numeral 'xvii' at the lower edge of the page is a quire signature., Historia Ecclesiastica; Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae (ff. 173v-175v); tract on the resting places of English saints, imperfect

or purple. Numbers in red. Historia Ecclesiastica; Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae (ff. 173v-175v); tract on the resting places of English saints, imperfect The cathedral priority of St Andrew, Rochester: 12th or 13th-century inscription 'Liber Sancti Andree Roffensis ecclesiae' (f.