• Decorated initial 'B'(eati) at the beginning of the text., Sermons and religious miscellany

(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

• Decorated initial 'V'(erbum) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the text., Verbum abbreviatum

red ink. Verbum abbreviatum ?Willelmus Dambroke (?Sambroke), 16th century: inscribed with his name (f. 115v).John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John

• Puzzle initial 'A'(bsolucio)., Rosarium theologiae (Theological dictionary) (index Dictionarium theologicum locorum communium)

161v).Joseph Bentley: his name inscribed in the 16th or 17th century (f. 1v). Thomas Baker (b. 1656, d. 1740), nonjuring Church of England clergyman and antiquary (deprived of his fellowship at St John's, Cambridge in 1717): title written in his

• Partial bar border with puzzle initial 'Q'(uod vides, scribe)., Commentary on Revelation, imperfect at the end

in red. Paraphs in red or blue. Commentary on Revelation, imperfect at the end John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John

• Decorated line and initials., Letters, including a Commentary on Hosea (ff. 147-154)

and Italian added by a 17th-century Italian hand (ff. 1*, 103).Unidentified heraldic bookstamp (f. 1).Conyers Middleton (b. 1683, d. 1750), Church of England clergyman and author, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1706, head librarian of the University Library at

• Decorated initial 'M'(illesimo), at the beginning of Book 6 of Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum; in the lower margin the beginning of an ownership and anathema inscription (which finishes on the facing page), stating that the manuscript belongs to the church of St Mary's, Southwick., Historia Anglorum

beginning of an ownership and anathema inscription (which finishes on the facing page), stating that the manuscript belongs to the church of St Mary's, Southwick. Sketch of a human figure (recto of first medieval parchment flyleaf). Sketches of heraldic arms

• Puzzle initial 'S' from a bifolium used as a flyleaf., Fragment used as flyleaves of portions of an index of contents of a work probably on canon law

portions of an index of contents of a work probably on canon law William Darell (d. in or after 1580), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: inscribed 'William Darell (f. 196v); see also Peter Sherlock, ‘Darell, William (d. in or

• Decorated initial 'D'(ominus) and words 'dixit in evangelio' in a collection of homilies., Homilies and other theological texts

Rubrics in red, or sometimes brown with yellow and silver decoration. Later maniculae. Homilies and other theological texts ? The church of St Kilian, Würzburg (see Gwynn 1952 p. 64).The abbey of St James (St Jacob zu den Schotten), Würzburg

• Decorated initials 'Q'(ui), 'D'(ominus), and 'Q'(uod), in a collection of homilies., Homilies and other theological texts

Rubrics in red, or sometimes brown with yellow and silver decoration. Later maniculae. Homilies and other theological texts ? The church of St Kilian, Würzburg (see Gwynn 1952 p. 64).The abbey of St James (St Jacob zu den Schotten), Würzburg

• Puzzle initial, at the beginning of Michel de Northgate's Ayenbite of Inwyt., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• Flourished initial., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• Flourished initials., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• Decorated initials., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• Decorated initial., Ayenbite of Inwyt

(f. 2) (see Montague Rhodes James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover: The Catalogues of the Libraries of Christ Church Priory and St. Augustine’s Abbey at Canterbury and of St. Martin’s Priory at Dover~ (Cambridge: University Press, 1903), no.

• Illuminated initial 'Þ'(is), with a partial bar border., Wycliffite sermon cycle, 'The Church and her members'

158). Initials in blue with red pen flourishing. Paraphs in blue. Rubrics and underlining in red. Wycliffite sermon cycle, 'The Church and her members' Thomas Dekyn, a Dominican friar: on f. 196v in a late fifteenth-century hand is a licence

• Decorated initial 'L'(apides)., Breviary, Ambrosian use

son of the late Messer Antonio degli Uberti of Margno in Valsasina, for 22 years a beneficed priest of the church of Santa Maria at Valtorta, and 'healthy in body though because of human frailty now deficient in natural heat,

• Miniature of the Annunciation, decorated initial 'E'(cce) and foliate borders, at the beginning of the Temporale in the Breviary., Breviary, Use of Ste Genevieve, Paris

pen-flourishing. Line fillers decorated in gold and blue. Breviary, Use of Ste Genevieve, Paris Made for use in the abbey church of Sainte-Genevieve, at the southern edge of medieval Paris, as indicated by the calendar (Genevieve on 3 January, 28

• Miniature in two compartments with David fighting a lion and a bear, decorated initial 'B'(eatus) and foliate borders, at the beginnign of the Psalter in the Missal., Breviary, Use of Ste Genevieve, Paris

pen-flourishing. Line fillers decorated in gold and blue. Breviary, Use of Ste Genevieve, Paris Made for use in the abbey church of Sainte-Genevieve, at the southern edge of medieval Paris, as indicated by the calendar (Genevieve on 3 January, 28

• Puzzle initial 'A'(braham) at the beginning of the Tabula super methodo fulgentii., Tabula super methodo fulgentii, Gesta Romanorum (index Deeds of the Romans), Liber de vitiis, various sermons

librario sancti Augustini ex Cantuariensis' (f. 1*v); 'liber de librario s[anc]ti Augusti[ni] Cant[uariensis].' (f. 2).John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John

• Text page is a compilation of royal and papal charters., A compilation of papal and royal charters (ff. 95-149v), followed by papers and memoranda relating to churches and pensions (ff. 150-198v)

The volume is a composite miscellany including:- Proceedings relating to the church of Ombersley (Worcerstershire) in 1284 (ff. 3-44);- 14th-century letters and papers relating to churches, pensions and other matters, mainly contemporary to Abbot William de Chiriton (1316–44) (ff. 45-57);-