• Initial 'I'(nter) with foliate decoration., Policraticus

widow of Ephesus (f. 95 x 2). Initials in colours, with zoomorphic motifs (ff. 1v, 2). Initials in red with blue penwork decoration or in green with red penwork decoration. Plain initials in red or green. Policraticus The cathedral priory

• Decorated initials., Policraticus

widow of Ephesus (f. 95 x 2). Initials in colours, with zoomorphic motifs (ff. 1v, 2). Initials in red with blue penwork decoration or in green with red penwork decoration. Plain initials in red or green. Policraticus The cathedral priory

• Decorated initials., Policraticus

widow of Ephesus (f. 95 x 2). Initials in colours, with zoomorphic motifs (ff. 1v, 2). Initials in red with blue penwork decoration or in green with red penwork decoration. Plain initials in red or green. Policraticus The cathedral priory

• Marginal drawing of a scribe at work, in the upper left margin., Policraticus

widow of Ephesus (f. 95 x 2). Initials in colours, with zoomorphic motifs (ff. 1v, 2). Initials in red with blue penwork decoration or in green with red penwork decoration. Plain initials in red or green. Policraticus The cathedral priory

• Marginal drawing of a woman., Policraticus

widow of Ephesus (f. 95 x 2). Initials in colours, with zoomorphic motifs (ff. 1v, 2). Initials in red with blue penwork decoration or in green with red penwork decoration. Plain initials in red or green. Policraticus The cathedral priory

• Detail of a decorated initial 'D'(ixim)., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

colours (ff. 1, 2). Small simple initials in red, green, or blue. Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan The Benedictine cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury (see f. 2; Gameson 1999 p. 94).Dover Priory, by 14th century:

• Detail of historiated initial 'R'(ege) with a seated scribe labelled 'OSBEARNVS', a censing monk, animals, and animal heads., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

animal heads. 2 historiated initials in colours (ff. 1, 2). Small simple initials in red, green, or blue. Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan The Benedictine cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury (see f. 2; Gameson 1999

• Illuminated miniature of Carrying Adderwort or snakeweed (Basilica) (polygonum bistorta)with animal heads, which the text advises protected from several kinds of snakes, and the roots of which sometimes assume the form of a bear's paw, also shown. One of the presumed virtues of this herb is the protection against all manner of evil serpents., Medical and herbal collection, including Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarius; Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis (ff. 49v-73); Sextus Placitus, De medicina ex animalibus

initials in colours with zoomorphic and foliate decoration on gold grounds (ff. 1v, 7v, 8). Large and small initials in blue, green, or red, a few with penwork decoration. Medical and herbal collection, including Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarius; Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis

• Diagram illustratng a treatise on free will, showing connections between various sorts of sin. In the lower portion of the diagram is a small rectangle with the word 'vicium' (meaning fault/blemish/flaw/vice) linked to four more similar rectangles, marked 'furtum', 'fraus', 'fallacia', and 'mendacium', words with similar meanings, all connected with fraud, trickery, deceit, treachery, etc., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

with text in Latin in a 12th-century hand.This is the earliest dated English Cistercian manuscript. Large initials in red, yellow, blue, brown or green, some with penwork decoration in the same or another colour or colours on ff. 3-8. Large

• Between the end of some prefatory treatises and the prologue to Leviticus is a rubric stating that this is 'The book of [the Cistercian abbey of] St. Mary, Buildwas, written in the year AD 1176' ('Liber Sancte Marie de Bildewas. Scriptus anno ab incarnatione domini Millesimo centesimo septuagesimo sexto') followed by a decorated initial 'E'., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

with text in Latin in a 12th-century hand.This is the earliest dated English Cistercian manuscript. Large initials in red, yellow, blue, brown or green, some with penwork decoration in the same or another colour or colours on ff. 3-8. Large

• Decorated initial 'V'(ocavit) at the beginning of Leviticus., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

with text in Latin in a 12th-century hand.This is the earliest dated English Cistercian manuscript. Large initials in red, yellow, blue, brown or green, some with penwork decoration in the same or another colour or colours on ff. 3-8. Large

• Decorated initial 'I' at the beginning of John; visible through the parchment from the other side of the leaf is a green initial marking the start of the prologue to the Gospel. The first six lines of the main text is in a wider column than the rest, and has no interlinear gloss., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

with text in Latin in a 12th-century hand.This is the earliest dated English Cistercian manuscript. Large initials in red, yellow, blue, brown or green, some with penwork decoration in the same or another colour or colours on ff. 3-8. Large

• Decorated initials, and flyleaf., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

with text in Latin in a 12th-century hand.This is the earliest dated English Cistercian manuscript. Large initials in red, yellow, blue, brown or green, some with penwork decoration in the same or another colour or colours on ff. 3-8. Large

• Decorated initials., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

text in Latin in a 12th-century hand.This is the earliest dated English Cistercian manuscript. Large initials in red, yellow, blue, brown or green, some with penwork decoration in the same or another colour or colours on ff. 3-8. Large initials

• Text page with gloss., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

with text in Latin in a 12th-century hand.This is the earliest dated English Cistercian manuscript. Large initials in red, yellow, blue, brown or green, some with penwork decoration in the same or another colour or colours on ff. 3-8. Large

• Text page with gloss., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

with text in Latin in a 12th-century hand.This is the earliest dated English Cistercian manuscript. Large initials in red, yellow, blue, brown or green, some with penwork decoration in the same or another colour or colours on ff. 3-8. Large

• Decorated initial., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

text in Latin in a 12th-century hand.This is the earliest dated English Cistercian manuscript. Large initials in red, yellow, blue, brown or green, some with penwork decoration in the same or another colour or colours on ff. 3-8. Large initials

• Partial border with the Tudor rose, pomegranates, and banners., Westminster Tournament Challenge

Catherine of Aragon with 2 royal badges of a portcullis (badly rubbed) and a crowned Tudor rose as well as blue flags representing the 4 allegorical characters in the tournament. Westminster Tournament Challenge Made for the Westminster Tournament of 1511

• Text page with white vine initial 'D'(ives)., Facta et dicta memorabilia, in 9 books (index Memorabilium, libri novem) with a table of contents (f. 1v).

83, 83v, 98). 1 initial in silver, now tarnished (f. 111v). Large initials in red. A few large initials in blue. Smaller initials in maroon. Rubrics and marginal notations in red. Facta et dicta memorabilia, in 9 books (index Memorabilium,

• Medical diagrams showing cautery points as red dots. The first three miniatures are doctors with patients who have cautery points marked on their bodies; the fourth is a doctors treating gout: one holds the patient's tongue, the other catches the blood that pours from his ankle-joints, with the instructions, 'burn in this manner (incenditur sic) or 'thus' (sic, ita). At the top left, the cautery points for a toothache are identified as between the ears and the temples; next to points for a tertian fever (one recurring every forty-eight hours), and for dropsy. Next to this in the next frame is a figure with the points for cautery and bloodletting for a patient with quartan fever, and for one with a kidney or hip illness. In the bottom left, are points for sciatica sufferers (naked), and for a patient with quotidian fever, with the points for both cautery and phlebotomy. The lower right frame contains a seated figure ill with podagra, the figure below holding the bleeding cup with the points for tumors or other illness of the knees, and to the far right the points for hernia., Medical and herbal collection, including Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarius; Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis (ff. 49v-73); Sextus Placitus, De medicina ex animalibus

initials in colours with zoomorphic and foliate decoration on gold grounds (ff. 1v, 7v, 8). Large and small initials in blue, green, or red, a few with penwork decoration. Medical and herbal collection, including Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarius; Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis