• Decorated initial 'O'(mi) at the beginning of the Liber exhortationis of Paulinus of Aquileia., De fide ad Donatum and De fide ad Petrum trinitatis; Sermo de utilitate agendi penitentiam, De disciplina christiana, and De decem cordis; Liber exhortationis; Liber ecclesiasticorum dogmatum

and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial Fulgentius of Ruspe, Augustine, Paulinus of Aquileia, Gennadius England

• Decorated initial 'D'(ominus) at the beginning of Augustine's De decem cordis., De fide ad Donatum and De fide ad Petrum trinitatis; Sermo de utilitate agendi penitentiam, De disciplina christiana, and De decem cordis; Liber exhortationis; Liber ecclesiasticorum dogmatum

and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial Fulgentius of Ruspe, Augustine, Paulinus of Aquileia, Gennadius England

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uam) at the beginning of Augustine's Sermo de utilitate agendi penitentiam., De fide ad Donatum and De fide ad Petrum trinitatis; Sermo de utilitate agendi penitentiam, De disciplina christiana, and De decem cordis; Liber exhortationis; Liber ecclesiasticorum dogmatum

and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial Fulgentius of Ruspe, Augustine, Paulinus of Aquileia, Gennadius England

• Title page with display capitals, ivy leaves and pen scrolling line fillers in gold., Letters and sonnets

Title page with display capitals, ivy leaves and pen scrolling line fillers in gold. Contents include letter models (ff. 78v-94v, 96v-98v, 101) and the first draft of Feliciano's 'Letter on Friendship' (ff. 124v-127): see Kristeller 1989.First four leaves in

• Decorated initial 'P'(rimo)., Commentary on the Song of Songs, followed by other texts (ff. 2-104v); Commentary on Acts of the Apostles (ff. 105-152v); Commentary on Catholic Epistles (ff. 153-222); Homiliae (ff. 223-251); Commentary on Tobit (ff. 252-258)

Decorated initial 'P'(rimo). 1 leaf between ff. 222-223, and 1 leaf between ff. 251-252 are unfoliated; both are blank, apart from one quire mark. Threaded book-mark (f. 133). Underdrawing in plummet and crayon for initials on ff. 9v, 196.

• Decorated initial 'S'(e) with grotesques and foliate motif at the beginning of Cicero's 'De inventione'; next to it the St Alban's press-mark 'D.II.5.l'., De inventione (index Rhetorica)(ff. 1-47v); Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)(ff. 47v-85)

Decorated initial 'S'(e) with grotesques and foliate motif at the beginning of Cicero's 'De inventione'; next to it the St Alban's press-mark 'D.II.5.l'. Leaf marks (vertical or horizontal strokes, 'i'-'iiii', on rectos of leaves 1-4, 'x' on 5th leaf

• Initial 'A'(udiens) with foliate decoration., Gesta Normannorum ducum

on 31 August 1115: the roll is therefore datable to between September 1115 and 1117 and is the earliest datable English obituary roll known; the present fragment bears ten ~tituli~ or subscriptions, including those from St Mary's and St Vincent's

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul holding a scroll inscribed with the title of his Epistle ‘Ad Corinthos’, at the beginning of Second Corinthians., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

pen-flourishing in blue. Gloss on the Pauline Epistles Added chapter numbers, 14th-century English hand.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard France, N. France, Central or N. (Paris?)

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul enthroned, with a scroll reading ‘Ad Galatias’., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

pen-flourishing in blue. Gloss on the Pauline Epistles Added chapter numbers, 14th-century English hand.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard France, N. France, Central or N. (Paris?)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul enthroned, with a scroll reading ‘Ad Galatias’., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

pen-flourishing in blue. Gloss on the Pauline Epistles Added chapter numbers, 14th-century English hand.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard France, N. France, Central or N. (Paris?)

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul enthroned, with a scroll., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

pen-flourishing in blue. Gloss on the Pauline Epistles Added chapter numbers, 14th-century English hand.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard France, N. France, Central or N. (Paris?)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul enthroned, with a scroll., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

pen-flourishing in blue. Gloss on the Pauline Epistles Added chapter numbers, 14th-century English hand.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard France, N. France, Central or N. (Paris?)

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul enthroned, with a scroll reading ‘Ad Corinthios’, at the beginning of First Corinthians., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

pen-flourishing in blue. Gloss on the Pauline Epistles Added chapter numbers, 14th-century English hand.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard France, N. France, Central or N. (Paris?)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul enthroned, with a scroll reading ‘Ad Corinthios’., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

pen-flourishing in blue. Gloss on the Pauline Epistles Added chapter numbers, 14th-century English hand.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard France, N. France, Central or N. (Paris?)

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul holding a scroll inscribed with the title of his Epistle ‘Ad Corinthos’, at the beginning of Second Corinthians., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

pen-flourishing in blue. Gloss on the Pauline Epistles Added chapter numbers, 14th-century English hand.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard France, N. France, Central or N. (Paris?)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul holding a scroll inscribed with the title of his Epistle ‘Ad Corinthos’, at the beginning of Second Corinthians., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

pen-flourishing in blue. Gloss on the Pauline Epistles Added chapter numbers, 14th-century English hand.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard France, N. France, Central or N. (Paris?)

• Text page., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

pen-flourishing in blue. Gloss on the Pauline Epistles Added chapter numbers, 14th-century English hand.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text page Peter Lombard France, N. France, Central or N.

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul holding a scroll with the inscription 'Ad Timotheu[m]', at the beginning of 1 Timothy., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

pen-flourishing in blue. Gloss on the Pauline Epistles Added chapter numbers, 14th-century English hand.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard France, N. France, Central or N. (Paris?)

• Diagram, with an almond shape central space, inside a rectangle with the names of the four Evangelists. On the outer border are the names of the apostles and Paul, whose names are written in circles, and names of Old Testament prophets, priests, and patriarchs between the circles. Around the outside of the diagram, are notes of the hours of the day and night and the names of directions (in Old English) and winds place the celestial scheme within the structure of the world or creation., Portion of the annals of Peterborough Abbey

circles, and names of Old Testament prophets, priests, and patriarchs between the circles. Around the outside of the diagram, are notes of the hours of the day and night and the names of directions (in OldEnglish) and winds place

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a hair-covered Mary of Egypt feeding a lion, a bear and a stag., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper