• Text page with initial 'P'(ROVIDE) with penwork decoration at the beginning of the edict of King Alaric., Variae (abridgement of the last five books)

15).Patrick Young, (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: notes in his hand (e.g., ff. 1, 126v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f.1); in the 1698 catalogue of the library

• Text page with 'P'(lerumque) with penwork decoration., Variae (abridgement of the last five books)

15).Patrick Young, (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: notes in his hand (e.g., ff. 1, 126v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f.1); in the 1698 catalogue of the library

• Text page with initial 'Q'(ui) with penwork decoration., Variae (abridgement of the last five books)

15).Patrick Young, (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: notes in his hand (e.g., ff. 1, 126v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f.1); in the 1698 catalogue of the library

• Text page with quire number in arabic numerals written backwards: '610' for 16., Variae (abridgement of the last five books)

15).Patrick Young, (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: notes in his hand (e.g., ff. 1, 126v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f.1); in the 1698 catalogue of the library

• Text page with puzzle initial 'P'(ropositi) with penwork decoration and rubric added in a later cursive script ., Variae (abridgement of the last five books)

15).Patrick Young, (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: notes in his hand (e.g., ff. 1, 126v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f.1); in the 1698 catalogue of the library

• Coloured initials 'A(quarius), 'P'(rochion), 'A'(rgo) and small coloured initials., Poeticon astronomicon, Description of the constellations; In Somnium Scipionis

of 1122/3 (p. 127) and 1202 (no. 92). Inscribed 'Liber de Claustro Roffens[i] per G. cellerarium' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 410'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• Coloured initial 'S'(epemtrionalis) with decoration, small initials and rubric in colour., Poeticon astronomicon, Description of the constellations; In Somnium Scipionis

of 1122/3 (p. 127) and 1202 (no. 92). Inscribed 'Liber de Claustro Roffens[i] per G. cellerarium' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 410'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• Coloured initial 'C'(onfirmata) with decoration, small initials and rubric in colour., Poeticon astronomicon, Description of the constellations; In Somnium Scipionis

of 1122/3 (p. 127) and 1202 (no. 92). Inscribed 'Liber de Claustro Roffens[i] per G. cellerarium' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 410'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• Coloured initials 'I'(ginus), 'I'(gitur) and small coloured initials., Poeticon astronomicon, Description of the constellations; In Somnium Scipionis

of 1122/3 (p. 127) and 1202 (no. 92). Inscribed 'Liber de Claustro Roffens[i] per G. cellerarium' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 410'; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• 6 decorated initials of Anglo-Saxon letter 'wynn'., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

Paul and St Swithun, Winchester ? (see Ker 1957 and 1964).Latin marginalia of 12th/13th century (e.g., f. 125v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 139 ', (f. 1) and included in the inventory of books

• 2 decorated initials of Anglo-Saxon letter 'wynn'., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

Paul and St Swithun, Winchester ? (see Ker 1957 and 1964).Latin marginalia of 12th/13th century (e.g., f. 125v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 139 ', (f. 1) and included in the inventory of books

• Text page with display script highlighted in colour., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

Paul and St Swithun, Winchester ? (see Ker 1957 and 1964).Latin marginalia of 12th/13th century (e.g., f. 125v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 139 ', (f. 1) and included in the inventory of books

• 2 decorated initials of Anglo-Saxon letters 'thorn' and wynn., Collection of charms and remedies (a copy of 'Bald's Leechbook')

Paul and St Swithun, Winchester ? (see Ker 1957 and 1964).Latin marginalia of 12th/13th century (e.g., f. 125v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 139 ', (f. 1) and included in the inventory of books

• Detail of a historiated initial 'H'(ec) of Nicholas of Lyre in a Franciscan habit, sitting at a desk and presenting his book to a king and a queen, at the beginning of the prologue 1., Postilla litteralis in vetus et novum testamentum

chief argent, or party per fess argent and sable; and paly of four gules and or (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1197' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Decorated initial 'V'(etus), at the beginning of book 4., De universo seu De rerum naturis

York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii), 16th century (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1099' (f. I*), iacquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'P'(aulus) with white lions interlaced with a foliate scroll and an attached portrait of Peter Lombard writing the first words of his commentary, 'hunc epistola[m] / s/cribit / ap[osto]l[us]s roma/nos'., Pauline Epistles, with the commentary of Peter Lombard

the commentary of Peter Lombard Added two indexes to homilies on the Pauline Epistles, 14th century (f. 213r-v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 189' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Added list of names, including sovereigns of England from William the Conqueror and English and Norman bishops and abbots., Confessiones, De heresibus

156 others, 12th century (f. 187).Added initials 'AB', 12th century (f. 186v).Added notes, 14th-15th century (ff. 184v-185, 187v-188).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 44' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'A'(postolica) at the beginning of the De conflictu vitiorum et virtutum of Ambrosius Autpertus., De conflictu vitiorum et virtutum, De compunctione cordis, Prognosticon futuri saeculi, De corpore et sanguine domini, with sermons and Vita S. Fursei

library catalogues of 1122/23, no. 39; and of 1202, no. 83 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Added drawings of decorated initials, 12th century (ff. 161v-163v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 48' (f. 2), included in

• Decorated initial 'M'(agnus), at the beginning of the Confessiones of Augustine., Confessiones, De heresibus

156 others, 12th century (f. 187).Added initials 'AB', 12th century (f. 186v).Added notes, 14th-15th century (ff. 184v-185, 187v-188).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 44' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'S'(i) with two lions, at the beginning of the Policraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

39 (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii), 16th century (f. 2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library):