• Text page of the battles of King Arthur., Epitome rei militaris (see Notes for a list of contents)

C. E. Wright, ~Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum~ (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 436, 242).f. 39v contains a pasted-on strip of parchment with 19th-century ? painted insects and

• Decorated initial 'H'., Life of Bede

see Gameson.? Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury in 1604, former treasurer of St Paul's, canon of Westminster, and bishop of London: inscribed 'for Dr Bancroft' (f. 57v) (see discussion Barlow 1992 p. lxxix). [part 3].Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650),

• Initial 'P'(ater) with penwork decoration., Theological works (imperfect), including Soliloquia, De immortalitate animae, De XII abusivis saeculi, De gratia et libero arbitrio and Sermons

patron of the arts: the Harley family seat Brampton Bryan (see ~Diary~ 1966, I, pp. xlii-xliii) and then brought to London after Robert's death in 1724, received in the library on 16 October 1725, inscribed by the librarian Humfrey Wanley

• Historiated initial 'D'(ominus) with king David pointing at his eyes at the beginning of Psalm 26., Psalter, imperfect, beginning in Psalm 16

and in Latin (ff. 276v-277).Added prayer, post-medieval (f. 284).?Christopher Bateman (fl. 1698, d. c. 1730), bookseller and book auctioneer in London (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer,

• Flourished initials and coloured drawing of a scorpion with a short verse on the scorpion written around the edge: 'Scorpio efficitur pongens a posteriori Si quis blanditur nec mens consentiat ori', in Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Historiated initial 'Q'(ue) with Peter Lombard writing, in Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Decorated initials 'C'(um) and 'D'(iligentur), in Peter Lombard's Sentences; with a page marker in lower right-hand corner., Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Decorated initial 'C', at the beginning of Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Flourished initials, in Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Decorated initial 'C', at the beginning of Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Flourished initials, in Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Decorated initial 'C'(um), in Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Decorated initial 'D'(iligentur), in Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Flourished initials, in Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Detail of an historiated initial 'Q'(ue) with Peter Lombard writing, in Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• Marginal drawing of a scorpion with a short verse on the scorpion written around the edge: 'Scorpio efficitur pongens a posteriori Si quis blanditur nec mens consentiat ori', in Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• null, Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• null, Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• null, Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire

• null, Sententiae (index Sentences)

according to the handwritten annotations in the BL Manuscript Department's copy of ~Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Ashburnham Place: Appendix~ (London: Hodgson, 1853).Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham: his sale, May 1897, bought by Yates Thompson together with the entire