• null, Passion of Margaret

it was apparently a Margaret #libellus# that was used as a birthing aid. 1 large historiated initial with a three-sided foliate border, in colours and gold (f. 1). 18 small miniatures, in colours and gold (ff. 2, 2v, 3, 3v

• Text page: Isaiah 51-52., Duke of Sussex Bible with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Text page: Isaiah 51-52. Ruling is sometimes visible. Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable. Gilt edges. ~Masorah~ in micrographical design in the lower margins. Decorated ~parashah~ signs in mauve, red and gold. Numerous embellished bands with penwork decoration

• Panel decorated with pen-flourishing at the end of the Book of Ezekiel., Duke of Sussex Bible with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Panel decorated with pen-flourishing at the end of the Book of Ezekiel. Ruling is sometimes visible. Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable. Gilt edges. ~Masorah~ in micrographical design in the lower margins. Decorated ~parashah~ signs in mauve, red

• Text page: 2 Samuel 21-22., Duke of Sussex Bible with ~masorah magna~ and ~parva~

Text page: 2 Samuel 21-22. Ruling is sometimes visible. Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable. Gilt edges. ~Masorah~ in micrographical design in the lower margins. Decorated ~parashah~ signs in mauve, red and gold. Numerous embellished bands with penwork

• Text page., Grammatical and legal tracts, letters and documents

Letters (part 1) are dated 1344-1377.ff. 92-96 of the old foliation, at the end of part 2 are missing (see contents, f. 3).Manuel des Pechiez is imperfect: at f. 120v 1305 lines are missing. Large initials in brown with penwork

• Text page., Grammatical and legal tracts, letters and documents

Letters (part 1) are dated 1344-1377.ff. 92-96 of the old foliation, at the end of part 2 are missing (see contents, f. 3).Manuel des Pechiez is imperfect: at f. 120v 1305 lines are missing. Large initials in brown with penwork

• Initial 'H' with interlaced and foliate decoration., Commentarium in Epistolas Paulini, imperfect

165) and in one column on ff. 64v-146v (250 x 145).Marginal title attributing the text to Remigius added later (f. 1, lower margin).With contemporary and later marginal notes. Initials with interlace and/or foliate decoration in brown, light blue, light yellow

• Historiated initial 'O'(r) with a seated king and foliate decoration including acanthus leaves forming a partial border with a bird and 2 human figures at the beginning of the text. Date of acquisition inscribed by Humfrey Wanley in the upper margin., Lancelot du Lac (imperfect)

is made of ?16th-century documents pasted together; f. 169 is a folio made of 2 parchment flyleaves pasted together with 1 paper flyleaf with another part of the ?16th-century documents used at the beginning of the volume; these documents have

• Illuminated border and initial 'A'(nti) with floral penwork decoration, and the signature of Lord William Howard (b. 1563, d. 1640), antiquary and landowner, the younger son of Thomas Howard (b. 1538, d. 1572), 4th duke of Norfolk, with the date 1589, in the upper margin., Historical and theological miscellany, including excerpts from the Granarium, part II, and a commentary on Sacrobosco's De sphaera (ff. 183-198)

includes the Granarium of John Whethamstede, according to Howlett 1974 p. 199. 1 partial border and puzzle initial in blue and gold, with penwork flowers (f. 9). 1 puzzle initial in blue and red with foliate penwork decoration and pen-flourishing

• Decorated initial 'A'., Medical miscellany, including the Liber Medicinarum (ff. 1-40v)

Decorated initial 'A'. Numerous additions in English.ff. 130-132 are former flyleaves, including a 15th-century charter (f. 133v). Large and small initials in red, brown, or blue, some with penwork decoration. Paraphs in red. Diagrams (e.g. ff. 39, 58). Medical

• Detail of two miniatures of the allegorical figures of Convoitise and Avarice., Roman de la Rose

later addition is more didactic, scholarly, and pessimistic. 1 two-column miniature, with a large decorated foliate initial and a full foliate border with bird and animals, in colours and gold (f. 1). 22 single column miniatures, accompanied by small decorated

• Historiated initial 'E(t si) with the head of a man (?Cicero), besants and acanthus leaves extending into the margins at the beginning of the text., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)

colours with the head of a man (?Cicero), besants and acanthus leaves extending into the margins on three sides (f. 1). Initials in colours with foliate decoration (ff. 1v, 7v). Numerous smaller initials in red with purple (occasionally combined with

• Illuminated initials and border with foliate decoration., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, with a calendar (ff. 1-6v), imperfect

1-6v), imperfect Erased inscription (f. 65v).John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: his name (f. 1); sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723.The

• Historiated initial 'E(t si) with the head of a man (?Cicero), besants and acanthus leaves extending into the margins at the beginning of the text., Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)

colours with the head of a man (?Cicero), besants and acanthus leaves extending into the margins on three sides (f. 1). Initials in colours with foliate decoration (ff. 1v, 7v). Numerous smaller initials in red with purple (occasionally combined with

• Decorated initial 'C'(om[m]e hugh le despenser)., Various documents and legal texts including a list of English counts, a list of English knights, statutes of king Edward III from the 1st to the 50th year of his reign (1327-1377), and statutes of king Richard II up to the 14th year of his reign (1391)

Decorated initial 'C'(om[m]e hugh le despenser). ff. 1*, 1, 2 are parchment flyleaves.f. 1v: list of English counts. 1 large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing and foliate motifs (f. 15). Smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, one with

• Decorated initial 'S'(icut) combined with a partial bar border with ivy and a dragon at the beginning of the text., Homilies on Matthew (index In Matthaeum)(ff. 1-147v), ending with an alphabetical index (ff. 148-174v); Commentary on Boethius’s De Consolatione philosophiae (ff. 175-272)

1).Catchwords written horizontally. Initial in colours and gold combined with a partial bar border with ivy and a dragon (f. 1). Initials in blue, occasionally with reserved designs, with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs. Coloured initials in red or blue.

• Puzzle initial 'G'(loriosa) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the book., Commentary on Augustine's De civitate dei

1335. Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in brown and red (f. 1). Coloured initials in red. Commentary on Augustine's De civitate dei Added, 15th century, office for Thomas of Canterbury (ff. 93v-94) and Edmund of Canterbury

• Headpiece with geometric decoration., Menaion: Canons and other liturgical readings for Saints for November, ending with Stavrothekion, Theotokion and Canon Parakletikos

by Ioasaph: his couplet (f. 220v; see Gamillscheg and Harlfinger 1981).Christophoros Rouphos: owned in 15th (?) century, his inscriptions (ff. 1, 1v, 2).Niccolò Tornabuoni (d. 1598), bishop of Borgo San Sepolcro (el. 1560): owned in the 16th century, his inscription

• Tailpiece with geometric decoration and title in display capitals., Four Gospels, imperfect, followed by tables of lessons for the ecclesiastical year, imperfect at the end (ff. 214-228)

and later Master of Christ's College, Cambridge: owned in Constantinople in 1677, his notes (ff. 1* verso, 1); his Greek manuscript XXIV (f. 1); sold, together with Covel's other manuscripts, to Edward Harley for £300 on 27 Feb. 1715/6 (~Diary~

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uoniam ut ait sapiens) with a dragon motif and pen-flourished initial 'P'(rimo de superbia)., Various religious texts, including the Summa de vitiis

with a dragon motif and pen-flourished initial 'P'(rimo de superbia). 1 blank parchment leaf between ff. 37 and 38.f. 408 is a parchment leaf with notes in a post-medieval hand. 1 blank parchment leaf between ff. 408-409.On several folios, the