• Detail of a marginal drawing of a cross., Historia regum Britanniae, Historia Britonum, Visio Thurkilli, Gesta regum Anglorum and Historia Novella, De genealogia regum Anglorum, Gesta pontificum Anglorum

Detail of a marginal drawing of a cross. Contents: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (ff. 1-37v);Historia Britonum (ff. 38-45); Visio Thurkilli, attributed to Ralph of Coggeshall, abbot of Coggeshall, Essex (1208-1218), a description of a vision seen in 1206

• Text page with a marginal drawing of two mitres., Historia regum Britanniae, Historia Britonum, Visio Thurkilli, Gesta regum Anglorum and Historia Novella, De genealogia regum Anglorum, Gesta pontificum Anglorum

the 1609 catalogue of his collection; passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library: in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Detail of a marginal drawing of two mitres., Historia regum Britanniae, Historia Britonum, Visio Thurkilli, Gesta regum Anglorum and Historia Novella, De genealogia regum Anglorum, Gesta pontificum Anglorum

Detail of a marginal drawing of two mitres. Contents: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (ff. 1-37v);Historia Britonum (ff. 38-45); Visio Thurkilli, attributed to Ralph of Coggeshall, abbot of Coggeshall, Essex (1208-1218), a description of a vision seen in 1206

• Text page with a marginal drawing of a church., Historia regum Britanniae, Historia Britonum, Visio Thurkilli, Gesta regum Anglorum and Historia Novella, De genealogia regum Anglorum, Gesta pontificum Anglorum

the 1609 catalogue of his collection; passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library: in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Detail of a marginal drawing of a church., Historia regum Britanniae, Historia Britonum, Visio Thurkilli, Gesta regum Anglorum and Historia Novella, De genealogia regum Anglorum, Gesta pontificum Anglorum

Detail of a marginal drawing of a church. Contents: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (ff. 1-37v);Historia Britonum (ff. 38-45); Visio Thurkilli, attributed to Ralph of Coggeshall, abbot of Coggeshall, Essex (1208-1218), a description of a vision seen in 1206

• Text page with a marginal drawing of a crown, above an inscription reading 'Etheldredus'., Historia regum Britanniae, Historia Britonum, Visio Thurkilli, Gesta regum Anglorum and Historia Novella, De genealogia regum Anglorum, Gesta pontificum Anglorum

the 1609 catalogue of his collection; passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library: in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Detail of a marginal drawing of a crown, above an inscription reading 'Etheldredus'., Historia regum Britanniae, Historia Britonum, Visio Thurkilli, Gesta regum Anglorum and Historia Novella, De genealogia regum Anglorum, Gesta pontificum Anglorum

Detail of a marginal drawing of a crown, above an inscription reading 'Etheldredus'. Contents: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (ff. 1-37v);Historia Britonum (ff. 38-45); Visio Thurkilli, attributed to Ralph of Coggeshall, abbot of Coggeshall, Essex (1208-1218), a description of

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

(f. 7v). Richard [Aungerville] de Bury (1287-1345), bishop of Durham (1333-1345), sold to him (see the inscription below).The Benedictine abbey of St Albans, bought by Michael, abbot of St. Albans (1334-1349), in 1345 from the executors ofRichard de Bury:

• Illuminated initial 'I'(nter) at the beginning of book 1 of the Polycraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

(f. 7v). Richard [Aungerville] de Bury (1287-1345), bishop of Durham (1333-1345), sold to him (see the inscription below).The Benedictine abbey of St Albans, bought by Michael, abbot of St. Albans (1334-1349), in 1345 from the executors ofRichard de Bury:

• Decorated initial 'N'(on) at the beginning of book 5 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

(f. 7v). Richard [Aungerville] de Bury (1287-1345), bishop of Durham (1333-1345), sold to him (see the inscription below).The Benedictine abbey of St Albans, bought by Michael, abbot of St. Albans (1334-1349), in 1345 from the executors ofRichard de Bury:

• Decorated initial 'A'(dversus), at the beginning of book 1 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

(f. 7v). Richard [Aungerville] de Bury (1287-1345), bishop of Durham (1333-1345), sold to him (see the inscription below).The Benedictine abbey of St Albans, bought by Michael, abbot of St. Albans (1334-1349), in 1345 from the executors ofRichard de Bury:

• Illuminated initial 'D'(ogmate), at the beginning of the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

(f. 7v). Richard [Aungerville] de Bury (1287-1345), bishop of Durham (1333-1345), sold to him (see the inscription below).The Benedictine abbey of St Albans, bought by Michael, abbot of St. Albans (1334-1349), in 1345 from the executors ofRichard de Bury:

• Decorated initial 'N'(otum) at the beginning of book 6 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

(f. 7v). Richard [Aungerville] de Bury (1287-1345), bishop of Durham (1333-1345), sold to him (see the inscription below).The Benedictine abbey of St Albans, bought by Michael, abbot of St. Albans (1334-1349), in 1345 from the executors ofRichard de Bury:

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

(f. 7v). Richard [Aungerville] de Bury (1287-1345), bishop of Durham (1333-1345), sold to him (see the inscription below).The Benedictine abbey of St Albans, bought by Michael, abbot of St. Albans (1334-1349), in 1345 from the executors ofRichard de Bury:

• The first inscription recording that the book was commissioned by Simon, abbot of St. Albans (1167-1183), 'Hunc librum fecit domnus Symon abbas s[an]c[t]o Albano, que[m] qui ei abstule/rit', aut frande[m] commiserit, aut titulu[m] deleverit vel corup[er]it; anathema sit'; with a list of contents reading 'Policraticon / Metalogicon / Enteticus Joh[ann]is Sarisbi[r]ens[is]', and second is note recording that in 1345 the manuscript was bought by Michael, abbot of St. Albans, from the executors of Richard de Bury, bishop of Durham, reading 'Hu[n]c libru[m] venditu[m] d[omi]no Ric[ard]o de Biry ep[iscop]o Dunelm[ensi] emit / Michael abbas s[anct]i Albani ab executorib[us] p[re]d[ic]ti ep[iscop]i anno / d[omi]ni Mlill[esim]o CCCmoXLVto circa purificat[i]o[n]em b[eat]e V[ir]ginis.', Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

(f. 7v). Richard [Aungerville] de Bury (1287-1345), bishop of Durham (1333-1345), sold to him (see the inscription below).The Benedictine abbey of St Albans, bought by Michael, abbot of St. Albans (1334-1349), in 1345 from the executors ofRichard de Bury:

• Blank frame for a miniature, with the hindquarters of a horse on the left., Prose Life of Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of the English Church and People)

Ripon. Cuthbert subsequently became prior of Melrose, then prior of Lindisfarne, and went on to live as a hermit on the island of Inner Farne, off the coast of Northumberland. He was consecrated as bishop of Lindisfarne in 685 but

• Miniature of Cuthbert discovering a dolphin cut and prepared for cooking, from Chapter 11 of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert., Prose Life of Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of the English Church and People)

Ripon. Cuthbert subsequently became prior of Melrose, then prior of Lindisfarne, and went on to live as a hermit on the island of Inner Farne, off the coast of Northumberland. He was consecrated as bishop of Lindisfarne in 685 but

• Miniature of Cuthbert building his hermitage with the help of an angel on the island of Farne, from Chapter 17 of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert., Prose Life of Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of the English Church and People)

of Cuthbert building his hermitage with the help of an angel on the island of Farne, from Chapter 17 of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert. This manuscript was formerly Additional 39943.f. 20 should follow f. 21.A duplicate copy

• Miniature of Cuthbert digging a water pit with a monk for his hermitage on the island of Farne, from Chapter 18 of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert., Prose Life of Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of the English Church and People)

Ripon. Cuthbert subsequently became prior of Melrose, then prior of Lindisfarne, and went on to live as a hermit on the island of Inner Farne, off the coast of Northumberland. He was consecrated as bishop of Lindisfarne in 685 but

• Miniature of Cuthbert speaking to the birds and driving them away from the crops which he had sown, from Chapter 19 of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert., Prose Life of Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of the English Church and People)

Ripon. Cuthbert subsequently became prior of Melrose, then prior of Lindisfarne, and went on to live as a hermit on the island of Inner Farne, off the coast of Northumberland. He was consecrated as bishop of Lindisfarne in 685 but