• Text page with gloss., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

is a parchment flyleaf with text in Latin in a 12th-century hand.This is the earliest dated English Cistercian manuscript. Large initials in red, yellow, blue, brown or green, some with penwork decoration in the same or another colour or colours

• Text page with gloss., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

is a parchment flyleaf with text in Latin in a 12th-century hand.This is the earliest dated English Cistercian manuscript. Large initials in red, yellow, blue, brown or green, some with penwork decoration in the same or another colour or colours

• Decorated initial., Leviticus, glossed (ff. 7-58), and John, glossed, imperfect, with short thelogical treatises (ff. 3-7v)

a parchment flyleaf with text in Latin in a 12th-century hand.This is the earliest dated English Cistercian manuscript. Large initials in red, yellow, blue, brown or green, some with penwork decoration in the same or another colour or colours on

• Coloured initials., Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti

Library: in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 4v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Coloured initials Smaragdus of St Mihiel Canterbury England, S. E. (Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Decorated initials 'C'(um turbas) and 'O'(bsculta), with foliate motifs, at the beginning of the preface and the text., Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti

Library: in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 4v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initials Smaragdus of St Mihiel Canterbury England, S. E. (Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Miniature of Dunstan as a bishop, writing a commentary of the Rule of Saint Benedict, with an inscription 'S[an]c[tu]s Dunstanus'., Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti

Royal Library: in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 4v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Dunstan Smaragdus of St Mihiel Canterbury England, S. E. (Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Detail of a decorated initial 'O'(bsculta), with foliate motifs, at the beginning of the preface and the text., Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti

Library: in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 4v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial Smaragdus of St Mihiel Canterbury England, S. E. (Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Inscription of a title reading, 'Expositio su[per] Reg[u]lam beati Benedicti. nova' with a reference sign repeated at the beginning of the text (f. 3), a shelfmark, 'D. III. g. XII, an ownership inscription of John Lumley, and an offset of a miniature from leaf 2v., Expositio in Regulam S. Benedicti

Royal Library: in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 4v.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Inscription Smaragdus of St Mihiel Canterbury England, S. E. (Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Marginal diagram., Miscellany works on Computus and astrology

(ff. 150-150v).Inscribed 'Ja. Bonin', 14th century (f. 145v).Inscribed 'De libris J. de Longolio', 15th century (f. 149v).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Diagram France, Central France, N., or Central

• Marginal diagram with an inscription 'Thule insula'., Miscellany works on Computus and astrology

(ff. 150-150v).Inscribed 'Ja. Bonin', 14th century (f. 145v).Inscribed 'De libris J. de Longolio', 15th century (f. 149v).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Thule France, Central France, N., or Central

• Decorated initial 'D'(ominus) at the beginning of Psalm 22., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

in OldEnglish, beginning 'Myn drihten god aelmihtig' (ff. 190v-192) and 'Min drihten aelmihtig god si þe wuldor 7 þonc', 11th century (192-196v).Added note on three Friday fasts in OldEnglish, 11th century (f. 196v). Added an OldEnglish translation

• Initial 'D'(ixit) at the beginning of Psalm 109., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

in OldEnglish, beginning 'Myn drihten god aelmihtig' (ff. 190v-192) and 'Min drihten aelmihtig god si þe wuldor 7 þonc', 11th century (192-196v).Added note on three Friday fasts in OldEnglish, 11th century (f. 196v). Added an OldEnglish translation

• Initial 'Q'(omodo) with a human face, at the beginning of Psalm 118., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

in OldEnglish, beginning 'Myn drihten god aelmihtig' (ff. 190v-192) and 'Min drihten aelmihtig god si þe wuldor 7 þonc', 11th century (192-196v).Added note on three Friday fasts in OldEnglish, 11th century (f. 196v). Added an OldEnglish translation

• Initial 'Q'(uicumque) with a human face., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

in OldEnglish, beginning 'Myn drihten god aelmihtig' (ff. 190v-192) and 'Min drihten aelmihtig god si þe wuldor 7 þonc', 11th century (192-196v).Added note on three Friday fasts in OldEnglish, 11th century (f. 196v). Added an OldEnglish translation

• Decorated initial 'V'(ictus), at the beginning of book 1., Sermons, with a list of the sermons (f. 4)

1921).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): red seal of a ship, 17th century.Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: note of a title in his hand (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Decorated initial 'X'(cp), at the beginning of book 2., Sermons, with a list of the sermons (f. 4)

1921).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): red seal of a ship, 17th century.Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: note of a title in his hand (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Decorated initial 'V'(entrem) at the beginning of book 6., Sermons, with a list of the sermons (f. 4)

1921).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): red seal of a ship, 17th century.Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: note of a title in his hand (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uid), at the beginning of book 8., Sermons, with a list of the sermons (f. 4)

1921).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): red seal of a ship, 17th century.Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: note of a title in his hand (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Decorated initial 'P'(roficiscenti) at the beginning of the preface., Sermons, with a list of the sermons (f. 4)

1921).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): red seal of a ship, 17th century.Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: note of a title in his hand (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal

• Text page., Sermons, with a list of the sermons (f. 4)

1921).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): red seal of a ship, 17th century.Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), royal librarian and scholar: note of a title in his hand (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal