• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of David playing the harp, and David killing Goliath, at the beginning of Psalm 1, Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible)

sometimes with dragons (e.g., ff.1v, 173, 176v) in red and blue, with 1 dragon in gold (f. 7). Psalter (index Old Testament, Bible) Written for a nun: two prayers mention 'abbatissam nostram' (f. 176v, 179), perhaps in the diocese of

• Prefatory miniature of David playing the harp., Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The 'Westminster Psalter') (index Old Testament, Bible)

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• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with medallions of David with Goliath's head, David playing the harp, and David beheading Goliath, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The 'Westminster Psalter') (index Old Testament, Bible)

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• Calendar tables., Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The 'Westminster Psalter') (index Old Testament, Bible)

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• Calendar page for January with a medallion of Aquarius., Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The 'Westminster Psalter') (index Old Testament, Bible)

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• Calendar page for February with a medallion of Pisces., Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The 'Westminster Psalter') (index Old Testament, Bible)

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• Calendar page for March with a medallion of Aries., Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The 'Westminster Psalter') (index Old Testament, Bible)

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• Calendar page for April with a medallion of Taurus., Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The 'Westminster Psalter') (index Old Testament, Bible)

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• Calendar page for May with a medallion of Gemini., Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The 'Westminster Psalter') (index Old Testament, Bible)

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• Calendar page for June with a medallion of Cancer., Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The 'Westminster Psalter') (index Old Testament, Bible)

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• Calendar page for July with a medallion of Leo., Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The 'Westminster Psalter') (index Old Testament, Bible)

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• Calendar page for August with a medallion of Virgo., Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The 'Westminster Psalter') (index Old Testament, Bible)

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• Calendar page for September with a medallion of Libra., Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The 'Westminster Psalter') (index Old Testament, Bible)

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• Calendar page for October with a medallion of Scorpio., Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The 'Westminster Psalter') (index Old Testament, Bible)

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• Calendar page for November with a medallion of Sagittarius., Psalter, with litany, prayers and Easter tables (The 'Westminster Psalter') (index Old Testament, Bible)

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• Marginal painting of a king of England in armour, holding a shield with arms of three crowns., Chronicle of the Kings of England from Brut to 1420, i.e. Henry V (index Chronica regum Angliae), followed by a text relating to Oxford and Cambridge universities (ff. 79r-v)

interfecere dignum duxi' (f. 79). 5 marginal drawings of knights in armour with armorial shields representing Julius Caesar and 4 English kings in colours (ff. 5v, 8v, 11v, 18v, 20v). Large initial in gold with penwork decoration in blue and

• Puzzle initial 'P'(arabole) with flourished extension, at the beginning of the parabol., Bible with prologues, and Interpretation of Hebrew names (ff. 488-525v)

century: erased inscription (f. 526v).Unidentified owner, c. 1440-1500: inscription in humanistic book script (ff. 401-402).Unidentified owner, 16th century: inscription in English (f. 368v).Unidentified owner, 16th century?: inscribed with a motto(?) 'Timor meus spes mea' (ff. 3v, 526v). This motto appears

• Zoomorphic initial 'V'(erba) with foliate decoration, at the beginning of Jeremiah., Jeremiah and Daniel with the Glossa Ordinaria

king of England, Scotland, 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. Zoomorphic initial England, Central England, Central (Worcester?)

• Inhabited initial 'P'(er) of a double headed eagle, at the beginning of the Sententia de libro retractationum and an inhabited initial 'I'(nter) with double headed eagles and white lions, at the beginning of Book 1 of the De consensu evangelistarum., De consensu evangelistarum

1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, 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. Inhabited initials Augustine England, S.

• Historiated initial 'P'(rincipia) of Peter Lombard holding a scroll with an inscription, 'Petrus Lombard', at the beginning to the prologue to Peter Lombard's Commentary on Epistles., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7732, 7734, 7782, or 7980.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Peter Lombard Peter Lombard England