• Detail of a decorated initial 'I'(n diebus)., 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)

curtain covering the initial (f. 15). 7 full-page miniatures in colours and gold within rectangular frames, of Peter, Paul, James, John, Isaiah, the Tree of Jesse, the Women at the Sepulchre, Maurice, and Michael and two other angels fighting dragons

• Detail of a decorated initial 'I'(n diebus), from a reading from Revelation., 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)

curtain covering the initial (f. 15). 7 full-page miniatures in colours and gold within rectangular frames, of Peter, Paul, James, John, Isaiah, the Tree of Jesse, the Women at the Sepulchre, Maurice, and Michael and two other angels fighting dragons

• Miniature of Michael and two other angels battling the seven-headed dragon of the Apocalypse and three other dragons., 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)

curtain covering the initial (f. 15). 7 full-page miniatures in colours and gold within rectangular frames, of Peter, Paul, James, John, Isaiah, the Tree of Jesse, the Women at the Sepulchre, Maurice, and Michael and two other angels fighting dragons

• Illuminated initial 'F'(actum) with interlace., 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)

curtain covering the initial (f. 15). 7 full-page miniatures in colours and gold within rectangular frames, of Peter, Paul, James, John, Isaiah, the Tree of Jesse, the Women at the Sepulchre, Maurice, and Michael and two other angels fighting dragons

• Text page with neumes and an initial 'P'(otius) decorated with gold., 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)

curtain covering the initial (f. 15). 7 full-page miniatures in colours and gold within rectangular frames, of Peter, Paul, James, John, Isaiah, the Tree of Jesse, the Women at the Sepulchre, Maurice, and Michael and two other angels fighting dragons

• Detail of decorated initial 'P'(ost) with foliate motifs, clasps, and a man directing an arrow against a lion or a dog, at beginning of book 28 of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job., Moralia in Job, books 24-35

moralium. Quam scripsit Sifridus canonicus sancte marie sanctique nicolai in arenstein' (f. 1). A near contemporary hand century hand added John the Deacon's Vita S. Gregorii papae (f. 1). Notes in later hands including that of abbot Heinrich Schupp (d.

• Decorated initial 'M'(agnus) at the beginning of book 1 of Augustine's Confessiones., Confessiones (index Confessions)

Duodecimo Die Decembris Anno Jesu Christi 1687' (f. 1); his seal with the inscription 'Edw[ard] Chamberlayne 1688' ([f. iv verso]). John Chamberlayne (b. 1666, d. 1723), son of Edward Chamberlayne (b. 1616, d. 1703): his sale conducted by Daniel Browne,

• Display script with penwork decoration and reserved lines., Epistolae

Display script with penwork decoration and reserved lines. According to the incipit on f*v this is the 2nd part 'Incipit secunda pars epistolarum aurelii augustini yponiensis episcopi'. Quire marks. Catchwords (added by later medieval hand). Text block on ff.

• Dedtail of display script with penwork decoration and reserved lines., Epistolae

Dedtail of display script with penwork decoration and reserved lines. According to the incipit on f*v this is the 2nd part 'Incipit secunda pars epistolarum aurelii augustini yponiensis episcopi'. Quire marks. Catchwords (added by later medieval hand). Text block

• Detail of decorated initial 'H'(abens) with reserved lines, arabesque and foliate motifs., Epistolae

Detail of decorated initial 'H'(abens) with reserved lines, arabesque and foliate motifs. According to the incipit on f*v this is the 2nd part 'Incipit secunda pars epistolarum aurelii augustini yponiensis episcopi'. Quire marks. Catchwords (added by later medieval hand).

• Detail of decorated initial 'A'(ugustinus) with reserved lines, arabesque and foliate motifs., Epistolae

Detail of decorated initial 'A'(ugustinus) with reserved lines, arabesque and foliate motifs. According to the incipit on f*v this is the 2nd part 'Incipit secunda pars epistolarum aurelii augustini yponiensis episcopi'. Quire marks. Catchwords (added by later medieval hand).

• Detail of display script with reserved lines., Epistolae

Detail of display script with reserved lines. According to the incipit on f*v this is the 2nd part 'Incipit secunda pars epistolarum aurelii augustini yponiensis episcopi'. Quire marks. Catchwords (added by later medieval hand). Text block on ff. 64-79

• Puzzle initial 'F'(rat[er])with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the prologue to Genesis., Bible, without the Psalms

Rectoris Eccl[es]ie b[eat]e marie de An[n]a Abb[a]t[is]' (ff. 18v-19). Thomas Dackomb (1496-c. 1572), rector of Colbrooke, Winchester: inscription (f. [ii]). John Lay Coker, ?16th century inscription (f. 105).Henry Worsley (b. 1675, d. 1747), scholar and manuscript collector, envoy at the

• Puzzle initial 'I'(gitur) with penwork decoration, followed by display script, at the beginning of Sulpicius Severus' 'Vita Martini Turonensis'., Texts on the life, miracles and translation of St Martin of Tours and one text on his successor St Brice

his gift to the priory: inscribed 'Ex presente f. Joannis Vimmerij' (f. 1); press-mark 'T. 15' (f. 1, on erasure?). John Chamberlayne (b. 1666, d. 1723), son of Edward Chamberlayne (b. 1616, d. 1703): his sale conducted by Daniel Browne,

• Initial 'I'(gitur) with a reserved design and penwork decoration., Miscellaneous texts including the Life of St Norbert; Expositio in Regulam S. Augustini; De xii abusionibus claustri

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), II, no. 666: 'De Jejuniis & Incrementis Praemonstratensium, de Noberto &c.'). John Warburton (b. 1682, d. 1759), of Bury, county Lancashire, antiquary and herald, Somerset Herald in 1720; acquired for the

• White vine initial 'N'(el) and full border at the beginning of the text., Trionfi (index Triumphs)

White vine initial 'N'(el) and full border at the beginning of the text. Catchwords.This manuscript was made in Florence or Rome c. 1440-c. 1450, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

• Decorated initial 'I'(gnorancia) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the text., Constituciones Cantuariense provinciae

Smyth, ?16th century: inscribed several times with his name 'Antony Smyth of comitate wyth' (f. 1*; see also f. 100).Inscribed 'John', ?16th century (f. 103v).Added texts and pen-trials, 16th century (ff. 100v-101, 102v-103).Robert Burscough (b. 1650/51, d.1709), prebendary of Exeter

• Large initial 'H'(umano) with foliate decoration, flowers and besants and, in the lower margin, wreath enclosing unidentified arms, also surrounded by foliate decoration and flowers, Ars poetica (ff. 1-10); Sermones (index Satires) (ff. 10v-52v); Epistulae (ff. 53-83v)

Large initial 'H'(umano) with foliate decoration, flowers and besants and, in the lower margin, wreath enclosing unidentified arms, also surrounded by foliate decoration and flowers Inscribed in the scribe's hand 'S. Jacobi Luce olim Iacobi de meliorellis not[...] (f.

• Decorated initial 'D'(ilectissimo filio) at the beginning of the letters of Pope Leo I., Papal letters, decretals, Anselm's Cur Deus Homo (ff. 90-125)

Decorated initial 'D'(ilectissimo filio) at the beginning of the letters of Pope Leo I. f. 1 is a paper folio with a description of the contents of the manuscript by Humfrey Wanley, Harley librarian.ff. 126-127 is a parchment bifolio

• Canon table., Bible, from Proverbs to Revelation, vol. 2

Canon table. Volume 1 is Harley 2833. Quire marks (Roman numerals on the verso of the last leaf of the quire).The lower margin of f. 217 has been excised. Canon tables framed by arches preceding the Gospels (ff. 139-140).