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

de vitiis et peccatis' (ff. 100v-106), with continuous interlinear gloss in Old English.Numerous margins excised. Large initials in red and green. Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with OldEnglish glosses The Benedictine priory of Holy Trinity, or Christ Church,

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

de vitiis et peccatis' (ff. 100v-106), with continuous interlinear gloss in Old English.Numerous margins excised. Large initials in red and green. Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with OldEnglish glosses The Benedictine priory of Holy Trinity, or Christ Church,

• Decorated initial 'Chi-rho', with a zoomorphic decoration, at the beginning of Matthew; and an added Old English text of a manumission by king Athelstan., Gospel Book

Decorated initial 'Chi-rho', with a zoomorphic decoration, at the beginning of Matthew; and an added OldEnglish text of a manumission by king Athelstan. The manuscript contains a text of a manumission by King Athelstan, one of the earliest of

• Detail of a decorated initial 'Chi-rho', with a zoomorphic decoration, at the beginning of Matthew; and an added Old English text of a manumission by king Athelstan., Gospel Book

Detail of a decorated initial 'Chi-rho', with a zoomorphic decoration, at the beginning of Matthew; and an added OldEnglish text of a manumission by king Athelstan. The manuscript contains a text of a manumission by King Athelstan, one of

• Detail of an added Old English text of a manumission by king Athelstan., Gospel Book

Detail of an added OldEnglish text of a manumission by king Athelstan. The manuscript contains a text of a manumission by King Athelstan, one of the earliest of the Anglo-Saxon examples of the practice of inserting records in sacred

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

be identified with no. 155 in Patrick Young's 1622 catalogue of the cathedral library, Salisbury (see Ker 1949).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship (f. 2); table of contents in the hand of the

• Text page from Genesis., Bible

(b. 1491, d. 1547), king of England and Ireland (from 1509): his portrait and arms (f. 4v). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'No. 978' (f. 1): acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Detail of a miniature of the Greek and Trojan armies., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

and miniatures (35): 'en cest livre sont xii caiers et demy et xxxv histoirez', 15th century (f. 100v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): to be identified with 'La destruction de Troye' in the list of books at Richmond

• Detail of a miniature of the murder of Achilles., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

and miniatures (35): 'en cest livre sont xii caiers et demy et xxxv histoirez', 15th century (f. 100v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): to be identified with 'La destruction de Troye' in the list of books at Richmond

• Detail of a miniature of the theft of the Palladium., Historia destructionis Troiae in a French translation

and miniatures (35): 'en cest livre sont xii caiers et demy et xxxv histoirez', 15th century (f. 100v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): to be identified with 'La destruction de Troye' in the list of books at Richmond

• Miniature of Innocent IV writing, with another pope kneeling before a cardinal and a scholar (Innocent IV?) dictating to a scribe, with a full border, at the beginning of book 1., Apparatus in quinque libros Decretalium

amen. amen' (f. 221v).Inscribed 'Radulphus', 14th century (f. 1).Added running titles for rubrics and marginal glosses, 14th-century English hand.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 422' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uoniam), with a display script, at the beginning of Luke., Gospel Book

Added corrections 'diens', and 'ferebant' correcting 'dicebant', 9th century caroline minuscule (ff. 55, 75); and added punctuation (ff. 73-77).Added OldEnglish text of manumission by King Athelstan of c. 925, stating that king Athelstan freed Eadhelm very soon after he

• Detail of a decorated initial 'Q'(uoniam), with a display script, at the beginning of Luke., Gospel Book

Added corrections 'diens', and 'ferebant' correcting 'dicebant', 9th century caroline minuscule (ff. 55, 75); and added punctuation (ff. 73-77).Added OldEnglish text of manumission by King Athelstan of c. 925, stating that king Athelstan freed Eadhelm very soon after he

• Text page., Gospel Book

Added corrections 'diens', and 'ferebant' correcting 'dicebant', 9th century caroline minuscule (ff. 55, 75); and added punctuation (ff. 73-77).Added OldEnglish text of manumission by King Athelstan of c. 925, stating that king Athelstan freed Eadhelm very soon after he

• Detail of a miniature of Francis with a decorated initial 'L'., Miscellaneous theological works, including the Life of Saint Francis (ff. 152-295); Encontre Tribulation (ff. 84-127); L'abbaye de saint esperit (ff. 132v-139v); Le cloistre espirituel (ff. 148-52)

'HR' [for Henricus Rex] (f. 1).?Shelfmark of a very large number in brown ink (Carley's 'Old Large Number') 64 (f. [i]).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 517' (f. 1), included in the inventory of

• Miniature of a battle between the French and English armies, with an illuminated initial 'L'., Chroniques de France ou de St Denis

446).Inscribed 'qui meix amoient a morir que languir en cest dolour, quod Jane Sanford', 15th century (f. 447).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 60; and in

• Two illuminated initial 'I'(mperator) with border extensions, including birds, at the beginning of the Glossa ordinaria to the Institutiones., Glossa ordinaria to the Institutiones and Glossa ordinaria to the Tres libri

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 Library at

• Illuminated initial 'A'(s the) in gold and red, at the beginning of the text., The pleasaunt poesye of princelie practise, imperfect

the text. Sir William Forrest's 'The pleasaunt poesye of princelie practise' is an English verse adaptation of the pseudo-Aristotelian 'Secretum Secretorum' and Giles of Rome's 'De Regimine Principum', written following the fashion of the commonwealthsmen, the social commentators and reformers,

• Miniature of Prudence writing at a desk, with pupils sitting in front of her, and a foliate initial 'C'(es), at the beginning of the rubric 'De la vertu de prudence'., La somme le roi, with Gospels and the Complainte de Notre Dame

Paraphs in red or blue. La somme le roi, with Gospels and the Complainte de Notre Dame The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1404' (f. 1), included in the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Miniature of a man and a women at a table with a man drinking from a cup, illustrating the virtue of temperence, and a foliate initial 'L'(a vertu), at the beginning of the rubric 'De la vertu datrempance', and a miniature of a personification of Fortitude holding a disk with a lion, and a foliate initial 'L'(a vertu), at the beginning of the rubric 'De la vertu de force'., La somme le roi, with Gospels and the Complainte de Notre Dame

Paraphs in red or blue. La somme le roi, with Gospels and the Complainte de Notre Dame The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1404' (f. 1), included in the Upper Library at Westminster after