• Miniature next to the initial 'I'(n principio) of twelve compartments containing the Days of Creation, Temptation, Expulsion from Paradise and Labours of Adam and Eve, with display script and a miniature of Crucifixion below, at the beginning of Genesis. Full border with a medallion of Descent into Limbo in the lower margin., Bible (Octateuch)

2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis (f. 12v), 8 historiated initials in gold and colours, at the beginning of other biblical books (ff. 1, 80v, 135, 175v, 232, 285,

• Detail of a miniature next to the initial 'I'(n principio) of twelve compartments containing the Days of Creation, Temptation, Expulsion from Paradise and Labours of Adam and Eve, with display script and a miniature of Crucifixion below, at the beginning of Genesis., Bible (Octateuch)

2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis (f. 12v), 8 historiated initials in gold and colours, at the beginning of other biblical books (ff. 1, 80v, 135, 175v, 232, 285,

• Text page from Genesis., Bible (Octateuch)

2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis (f. 12v), 8 historiated initials in gold and colours, at the beginning of other biblical books (ff. 1, 80v, 135, 175v, 232, 285,

• Historiated initial 'I' of Elimelech and Naomi with her children, at the beginning of Ruth., Bible (Octateuch)

2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis (f. 12v), 8 historiated initials in gold and colours, at the beginning of other biblical books (ff. 1, 80v, 135, 175v, 232, 285,

• Detail of an historiated initial 'I' of Elimelech and Naomi with her children, at the beginning of Ruth., Bible (Octateuch)

2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis (f. 12v), 8 historiated initials in gold and colours, at the beginning of other biblical books (ff. 1, 80v, 135, 175v, 232, 285,

• Historiated initial 'H'(ec) of Moses and the Israelites, at the beginning of Exodus., Bible (Octateuch)

2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis (f. 12v), 8 historiated initials in gold and colours, at the beginning of other biblical books (ff. 1, 80v, 135, 175v, 232, 285,

• Detail of an historiated initial 'H'(ec) of Moses and the Israelites, at the beginning of Exodus., Bible (Octateuch)

2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis (f. 12v), 8 historiated initials in gold and colours, at the beginning of other biblical books (ff. 1, 80v, 135, 175v, 232, 285,

• Historiated initial 'J'(ohannes) of a lawyer holding a book, with a partial border, at the beginning of the preface (the introductory bull of John XXII), and a foliate initial 'J'(ohannes), at the beginning of the gloss; with birds and a hybrid grotesque in the margin., Constitutiones Clementinae; Extravagantes; Decretal on Franciscans; Lectura super Clementinis; Breviarium sive Repertorium

in 1336 (ff. 1-112);John XXII, three decretals from the Extravagantes: 'Suscepti regiminis' (tit. I, cap. 2), 'Execrabilis' (tit. III, cap. 1), and 'Sedes apostolica' (tit. IV, cap. I) (ff. 112-114);Nicholas III, a decretal on Franciscans of 1279 (ff. 114-120);Guilelmus de

• Text page of Leviticus 18: 16, reading 'Et uxorem fratris sui nullus accipet' ('Nobody may marry his brother's wife') marked by a manicule in the margin., Bible (Octateuch)

2009), no. 109 [exhibition catalogue]. 1 miniature in colours and gold next to the initial for Genesis (f. 12v), 8 historiated initials in gold and colours, at the beginning of other biblical books (ff. 1, 80v, 135, 175v, 232, 285,

• Historiated initial 'M'(agnifice) of Guilelmus de Monte Lauduno presenting his book to the pope, at the beginning of the Lectura super Clementinis., Constitutiones Clementinae; Extravagantes; Decretal on Franciscans; Lectura super Clementinis; Breviarium sive Repertorium

in 1336 (ff. 1-112);John XXII, three decretals from the Extravagantes: 'Suscepti regiminis' (tit. I, cap. 2), 'Execrabilis' (tit. III, cap. 1), and 'Sedes apostolica' (tit. IV, cap. I) (ff. 112-114);Nicholas III, a decretal on Franciscans of 1279 (ff. 114-120);Guilelmus de

• Foliate initial 'E'(os) with a hybrid., Constitutiones Clementinae; Extravagantes; Decretal on Franciscans; Lectura super Clementinis; Breviarium sive Repertorium

in 1336 (ff. 1-112);John XXII, three decretals from the Extravagantes: 'Suscepti regiminis' (tit. I, cap. 2), 'Execrabilis' (tit. III, cap. 1), and 'Sedes apostolica' (tit. IV, cap. I) (ff. 112-114);Nicholas III, a decretal on Franciscans of 1279 (ff. 114-120);Guilelmus de

• Miniature with a dead landscape, at the beginning of Philippus Albericus's De mortis effectibus, on the facing page a brief prose letter addressed to Joachim Bretoner., Tabula Cebetis, De mortis effectibus and other poems

in colours, gold and silver (ff. 1, 3). 5 large foliate initials, in colours, gold and silver (ff. 7, 11, 14, 19, 25v). 1 smaller initial in gold on a red ground (f. 21). 1 small initial in gold on

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

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

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

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

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

France in 1380 (f. 1).Catchwords. 34 miniatures in colours and gold with partial borders, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 3, 4, 8v, 11v, 14v, 17v, 20, 24v, 25v, 28, 30, 32v, 39, 47, 48v, 50, 51v, 55, 58,

• null, Ab urbe condita: first (ff. 1-113), third (ff. 113-213), and fourth (ff. 214-290v) decades

Most of the rest of the decoration consists of drawings of birds and other figures in the margins (e.g. f. 1), on the initials (e.g. f. 92v), or attached to descenders of the lowest line of writing (e.g. f. 37).

• Decorated initial., Lives of saints, and an Irish translation of Innocent III's De contemptu mundi

initial. f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf.Unfoliated paper leaves after ff. 7, 13, 21, 33, 41, 56, 57).Detailed descrition of the manuscript in Flower. Large initials in brown with penwork decoration, many with interlace. Small initials in brown. Spaces left

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

Surrey' (f. 1). Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate

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

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 (beginning of the 14th century), no. 246 (see M. R. James,

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

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 (beginning of the 14th century), no. 246 (see M. R. James,