• Puzzle initial 'F'(rater) at the beginning of the Prologue., Bible, without the Psalms

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Historiated initial 'L'(iber)with the Tree of Jesse at the beginning of Matthew's Gospel. Maiden and unicorn in the margin., Bible, with the Psalms (ff. 208v-231v; imperfect) and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 494-533), imperfect (starts in the middle of Exodus)

inscribed 15th or 16th-century 'pries pur moy for charyte' and his name (f. 538).Thomas Baker (b. 1656, d. 1740), nonjuring Church of England clergyman and antiquary (deprived of his fellowship at St John's, Cambridge in 1717): autograph inscription 'Biblia latina

• Historiated initial 'E'(x Cassiodoro) with the author Cassiodorus pointing at an open book, and a foliated tendril extending into the margin; the body of the letter contains a blue figure. Smaller historiated initial 'C'(um) with the head of a bishop., Miscellany including William of Malmesbury's De dictis et factis memorabilibus philosophorum (Polyhistor) (ff. 3- 40v), Cassiodorus' De orthographia (ff. 41-52), Marbod's Lapidarium, with gloss (ff. 106-123), Priscianus' Solutiones ad Chosroem [regem Persarum] (ff. 139v-160v), Nemesius' De natura hominis (ff. 168-196), Albericus' Flores Rhetorici (ff. 196-206), John of Salisbury's De septem septenis (ff. 206v-215v), Joachim of Fiore's Praephatio super Apocalypsim (ff. 216-224), imperfect; De praesagiis tempestatum (f. 224r-v), imperfect

233).Added ?price, 14th or 15th century (f. 232v). Emmanuel College, Cambridge (see Wright 1972).Thomas Baker (b. 1656, d. 1740), nonjuring Church of England clergyman and antiquary (deprived of his fellowship at St John's, Cambridge in 1717): inscribed 'Tho: Baker' (f.

• Front cover, with a plaque set in the front cover of Paul, holding an open book (according to Foot) or Matthew (according to Dalton; Lasko)., Lectionary ('The Siegburg Lectionary') (ff. 4v-77); with the Common of Saints (ff. 77-87v), directions and lessons for mass (ff. 87v-93v); various readings (see Notes)

as Severinus and Gereon, and those specially connected with Siegburg, including its founder Archbishop Anno of Cologne, who consecrated the church under the name of Michael and Maurice and his companions on 22 September 1066 (see Turner 1962).The Harley Collection,

• Miniature of Isaiah, who holds a scroll containing text from Isaiah 11; miniature of the tree of Jesse, with seven roundels containing doves, representing the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit., Lectionary ('The Siegburg Lectionary') (ff. 4v-77); with the Common of Saints (ff. 77-87v), directions and lessons for mass (ff. 87v-93v); various readings (see Notes)

as Severinus and Gereon, and those specially connected with Siegburg, including its founder Archbishop Anno of Cologne, who consecrated the church under the name of Michael and Maurice and his companions on 22 September 1066 (see Turner 1962).The Harley Collection,

• Historiated initial 'B'(eati) with Christ lowering a scroll to three apostles seated below, at the beginning of Psalm 118. Coloured initials with pen decoration., Psalter, imperfect, beginning with Psalm 2:8 and with folios excised (the 'Charité- sur- Loire Psalter), with a calendar and related tables (ff. 1-8v), with prayers (f. 87r-v); and litany and prayers (ff. 88-93v)

an abbey of nuns in some relationship with the Cluniac monastery of La Charité-sur-Loire, north of Nevers: dedication of the church of La Charité in the calendar for March 9 'dedicatio ecclesiae de kar' (f. 2); prayer with reference to

• Detail of illuminated historiated initial 'D'(omine exaudi orationem meam) depicting David, on foot, fleeing from Absalom and two companions on horseback, with upraised swords., Psalter, imperfect, beginning with Psalm 2:8 and with folios excised (the 'Charité- sur- Loire Psalter), with a calendar and related tables (ff. 1-8v), with prayers (f. 87r-v); and litany and prayers (ff. 88-93v)

an abbey of nuns in some relationship with the Cluniac monastery of La Charité-sur-Loire, north of Nevers: dedication of the church of La Charité in the calendar for March 9 'dedicatio ecclesiae de kar' (f. 2); prayer with reference to

• Miniature of Isaiah, who holds a scroll containing text from Isaiah 11, and on the right a tree of Jesse, with seven roundels containing doves, representing the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit., Lectionary ('The Siegburg Lectionary') (ff. 4v-77); with the Common of Saints (ff. 77-87v), directions and lessons for mass (ff. 87v-93v); various readings (see Notes)

as Severinus and Gereon, and those specially connected with Siegburg, including its founder Archbishop Anno of Cologne, who consecrated the church under the name of Michael and Maurice and his companions on 22 September 1066 (see Turner 1962).The Harley Collection,

• Decorated initial 'S', set on a painted purple background, inhabited by dragons painted in silver and gold, at the beginning of the reading for Epiphany., Lectionary ('The Siegburg Lectionary') (ff. 4v-77); with the Common of Saints (ff. 77-87v), directions and lessons for mass (ff. 87v-93v); various readings (see Notes)

as Severinus and Gereon, and those specially connected with Siegburg, including its founder Archbishop Anno of Cologne, who consecrated the church under the name of Michael and Maurice and his companions on 22 September 1066 (see Turner 1962).The Harley Collection,

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixisse) depicting a king (Pyrrhus of Epirus?) in armour on horseback, in Orosius's Historiarum adversum paganos, with eighteenth- century ink pagination by David Swan., Historia adversus paganos

blue, occasionally with human faces (e.g., f. 57v). Historia adversus paganos The Augustinian priory of the Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Kirkham, Yorkshire (founded c. 1122): the main scribe (ff. 5-88v) also wrote Additional 38817, ff. 5-91v, from Kirkham, and

• Marginal drawing of an 'Elephant and Castle'; the adjacent text describes King Pyrrhus's battle elephants, with decorated initials 'A'(nno) and 'I'(psi) in Orosius's Historiarum adversum paganos, and eighteenth-century ink pagination by David Swan., Historia adversus paganos

blue, occasionally with human faces (e.g., f. 57v). Historia adversus paganos The Augustinian priory of the Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Kirkham, Yorkshire (founded c. 1122): the main scribe (ff. 5-88v) also wrote Additional 38817, ff. 5-91v, from Kirkham, and

• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(ufficientia) in the form of a dragon, terminating in a bearded human head, in Orosius's Historiarum adversum paganos, with eighteenth-century ink pagination by David Swan., Historia adversus paganos

blue, occasionally with human faces (e.g., f. 57v). Historia adversus paganos The Augustinian priory of the Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Kirkham, Yorkshire (founded c. 1122): the main scribe (ff. 5-88v) also wrote Additional 38817, ff. 5-91v, from Kirkham, and

• Decorated initial 'N'(eminem), in Orosius's Historiarum adversum paganos, and 18th-century ink pagination by David Swan., Historia adversus paganos

blue, occasionally with human faces (e.g., f. 57v). Historia adversus paganos The Augustinian priory of the Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Kirkham, Yorkshire (founded c. 1122): the main scribe (ff. 5-88v) also wrote Additional 38817, ff. 5-91v, from Kirkham, and

• Historiated initial 'E'(xplicui), with a bishop and a tonsured monk offering him a book, in Orosius's Historiarum adversum paganos, and eighteenth-century ink pagination by David Swan., Historia adversus paganos

blue, occasionally with human faces (e.g., f. 57v). Historia adversus paganos The Augustinian priory of the Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Kirkham, Yorkshire (founded c. 1122): the main scribe (ff. 5-88v) also wrote Additional 38817, ff. 5-91v, from Kirkham, and

• Historiated illuminated initial 'Q'(uid) at the beginning of Psalm 51, of Doeg slaying the priests of Nob with swords, and in the lower margin, David holding a slingshot and a scroll, about to kill Goliath in the descender of the initial, which consists of a dragon's body and tail., Psalter, with calendar, ending imperfectly

priory of St Giles, Barnwell, Cambridgeshire: evidence of the calendar and the litany (see Morgan 1982).Precentor 'E' of the cathedral church of Holy Trinity, Chichester: added obits of Bishop Ranulf on 15 September (f. 8); and of the precentor's father

• Illuminated 'KL' letters in a calendar page for September with foliate decoration, and in the margin roundels of the occupation of the month of a man picking fruit, and the zodiac sign, Libra, the scales. About half-way down the page is an added inscription in black ink recording the death of Ranulf, bishop of Chichester, and about ten lines lower down, another inscription recording the death of Avicia, mother of precentor 'E' of Chichester., Psalter, with calendar, ending imperfectly

priory of St Giles, Barnwell, Cambridgeshire: evidence of the calendar and the litany (see Morgan 1982).Precentor 'E' of the cathedral church of Holy Trinity, Chichester: added obits of Bishop Ranulf on 15 September (f. 8); and of the precentor's father

• Historiated illuminated initial 'D'(ixit) at the beginning of Psalm 52, of the Devil tempting Christ, with Christ dropping the stones, which the Devil has tried to provoke Christ to turn into loaves of bread, and in the ascender of the initial, three hares and a dragon., Psalter, with calendar, ending imperfectly

priory of St Giles, Barnwell, Cambridgeshire: evidence of the calendar and the litany (see Morgan 1982).Precentor 'E' of the cathedral church of Holy Trinity, Chichester: added obits of Bishop Ranulf on 15 September (f. 8); and of the precentor's father

• Illuminated 'KL' letters in a calendar page for April, with roundels of the occupation of the month of a man scything, and the zodiac sign, Taurus the bull. A little below Taurus is an added 13th-century inscription in black ink, recording the death of John, father of 'E', precentor of Chichester cathedral., Psalter, with calendar, ending imperfectly

priory of St Giles, Barnwell, Cambridgeshire: evidence of the calendar and the litany (see Morgan 1982).Precentor 'E' of the cathedral church of Holy Trinity, Chichester: added obits of Bishop Ranulf on 15 September (f. 8); and of the precentor's father

• Pen-flourished initial 'C'(um), 'B'(ritannia), and 'E'(neas), at the beginning of the Historia regum Britanniae, with the name of 'Lumley' in the lower margin., Historia regum Britanniae, Historia Britonum, Visio Thurkilli, Gesta regum Anglorum and Historia Novella, De genealogia regum Anglorum, Gesta pontificum Anglorum

mitres (ff. 18v, 35), a star (f. 24v), bells (f. 142v), and 1 marginal drawing in blue ink of a church (f. 63v). Historia regum Britanniae, Historia Britonum, Visio Thurkilli, Gesta regum Anglorum and Historia Novella, De genealogia regum Anglorum,

• Blank frame for a miniature, with the hindquarters of a horse on the left., Prose Life of Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of the English Church and People)

Small initials in plain red or blue. Prose Life of Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of the English Church and People) The priory of Durham Cathedral: inscribed in red ink 'liber sancti cuthberti' (f. 2v); cited in Durham