• Decorated initials 'P' and 'B'. In the left margin next to the initial 'P' is a faint letter 'R', for 'red', or 'rouge', in French, and next to the green initial 'B' is a letter that could either be a 'G', for green, or a 'V', for 'vert', in French., 'Scutum Bede', a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum (ff. 155v-165)

either be a 'G', for green, or a 'V', for 'vert', in French. Leaves have been cut out between ff. 1 and 2, 53 and 54 (two), 86 and 87, 118 and 119 (two), 162 and 163, and cut in

• Decorated initial 'O', and in the lower half of this page, a list of names of animals with some English equivalents next to the Latin written in smaller script. For example, above 'Agna' is 'ewelomb' (ewe lamb); next to 'Porcus' is 'Swin' (Swine) and 'Porc'; below 'Sus' is 'bor' (boar); and on the bottom line next to 'Capra' is 'got' (goat)., 'Scutum Bede', a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum (ff. 155v-165)

'bor' (boar); and on the bottom line next to 'Capra' is 'got' (goat). Leaves have been cut out between ff. 1 and 2, 53 and 54 (two), 86 and 87, 118 and 119 (two), 162 and 163, and cut in

• The first inscription recording that the book was commissioned by Simon, abbot of St. Albans (1167-1183), 'Hunc librum fecit domnus Symon abbas s[an]c[t]o Albano, que[m] qui ei abstule/rit', aut frande[m] commiserit, aut titulu[m] deleverit vel corup[er]it; anathema sit'; with a list of contents reading 'Policraticon / Metalogicon / Enteticus Joh[ann]is Sarisbi[r]ens[is]', and second is note recording that in 1345 the manuscript was bought by Michael, abbot of St. Albans, from the executors of Richard de Bury, bishop of Durham, reading 'Hu[n]c libru[m] venditu[m] d[omi]no Ric[ard]o de Biry ep[iscop]o Dunelm[ensi] emit / Michael abbas s[anct]i Albani ab executorib[us] p[re]d[ic]ti ep[iscop]i anno / d[omi]ni Mlill[esim]o CCCmoXLVto circa purificat[i]o[n]em b[eat]e V[ir]ginis.', Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

ab executorib[us] p[re]d[ic]ti ep[iscop]i anno / d[omi]ni Mlill[esim]o CCCmoXLVto circa purificat[i]o[n]em b[eat]e V[ir]ginis' (f. 1); with a list of contents, in the same hand (f. 1); perhaps to be identified with the 'Policraticon Iohannis Sariburiensis cum aliis libri contentis; included

• Coloured initials., Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti

Ricardi ...ham monachi' and 'ecc[lesi]e xp[ist]I cantuar[ie]', with a title 'Expo[s]it[i]o s[anc]ti du[n]stani sup[er] regula[m] s[anc]ti B[e]n[e]d[ic]ti', 14th century (f. 1), and a shelfmark 'D. III. g. XII' with a title 'Expositio su[per] Reg[u]lam beati Benedicti. nova', 12th century (f.

• Decorated initials 'C'(um turbas) and 'O'(bsculta), with foliate motifs, at the beginning of the preface and the text., Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti

Ricardi ...ham monachi' and 'ecc[lesi]e xp[ist]I cantuar[ie]', with a title 'Expo[s]it[i]o s[anc]ti du[n]stani sup[er] regula[m] s[anc]ti B[e]n[e]d[ic]ti', 14th century (f. 1), and a shelfmark 'D. III. g. XII' with a title 'Expositio su[per] Reg[u]lam beati Benedicti. nova', 12th century (f.

• Coloured initials., Statutes of the Norwegian Church, fragment

Coloured initials. Musical notation: Anglo-Saxon neumes, England (Winchester), mid-11th century (f. 4-4v).The volume is a composite manuscript made up of fragments of different date and origin bound at the beginning of the 16th-century swan-mark collection.The statutes of the Norwegian

• Coloured initials., Statutes of the Norwegian Church, fragment

Coloured initials. Musical notation: Anglo-Saxon neumes, England (Winchester), mid-11th century (f. 4-4v).The volume is a composite manuscript made up of fragments of different date and origin bound at the beginning of the 16th-century swan-mark collection.The statutes of the Norwegian

• Miniature of Dunstan as a bishop, writing a commentary of the Rule of Saint Benedict, with an inscription 'S[an]c[tu]s Dunstanus'., Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti

Ricardi ...ham monachi' and 'ecc[lesi]e xp[ist]I cantuar[ie]', with a title 'Expo[s]it[i]o s[anc]ti du[n]stani sup[er] regula[m] s[anc]ti B[e]n[e]d[ic]ti', 14th century (f. 1), and a shelfmark 'D. III. g. XII' with a title 'Expositio su[per] Reg[u]lam beati Benedicti. nova', 12th century (f.

• Detail of a decorated initial 'O'(bsculta), with foliate motifs, at the beginning of the preface and the text., Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti

Ricardi ...ham monachi' and 'ecc[lesi]e xp[ist]I cantuar[ie]', with a title 'Expo[s]it[i]o s[anc]ti du[n]stani sup[er] regula[m] s[anc]ti B[e]n[e]d[ic]ti', 14th century (f. 1), and a shelfmark 'D. III. g. XII' with a title 'Expositio su[per] Reg[u]lam beati Benedicti. nova', 12th century (f.

• null, Legenda aurea (index Legendae sanctorum; Legends of the saints; Golden Legend)

inscription (f. 2, copied on f. 1v in a 18th-century hand). Recipe for ink in Latin with English notes (f. 1), in a 17th-century hand. Stephen Potts: sold to Twysden in 1626: see Ovenden.Sir Roger Twysden (b. 1597, d. 1672),

• null, Legenda aurea (index Legendae sanctorum; Legends of the saints; Golden Legend)

inscription (f. 2, copied on f. 1v in a 18th-century hand). Recipe for ink in Latin with English notes (f. 1), in a 17th-century hand. Stephen Potts: sold to Twysden in 1626: see Ovenden.Sir Roger Twysden (b. 1597, d. 1672),

• Inscription of a title reading, 'Expositio su[per] Reg[u]lam beati Benedicti. nova' with a reference sign repeated at the beginning of the text (f. 3), a shelfmark, 'D. III. g. XII, an ownership inscription of John Lumley, and an offset of a miniature from leaf 2v., Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti

Ricardi ...ham monachi' and 'ecc[lesi]e xp[ist]I cantuar[ie]', with a title 'Expo[s]it[i]o s[anc]ti du[n]stani sup[er] regula[m] s[anc]ti B[e]n[e]d[ic]ti', 14th century (f. 1), and a shelfmark 'D. III. g. XII' with a title 'Expositio su[per] Reg[u]lam beati Benedicti. nova', 12th century (f.

• Puzzle initial 'B'(eatissimi) with pen-flourishing and a partial border at the beginning of Book 2., Doctrinale fidei ecclesiae, Books 1 and 2

pen-flourishing. Blue, red and black initials. Blue paraphs. Rubric, underlining and highlighting of initials in red. Doctrinale fidei ecclesiae, Books 1 and 2 John Whethamstede (d. 1464), given by him for use of St Albans monks studying at Gloucester College,