• Detail of an historiated initial 'R'(esons) of Mark being torn asunder by horses., Lives of the Saints

Meyer 1906 and Thompson 1999).According to Branner 1977, illuminated by 4 artists, of whom 3 are related to: 1. New York Pierpont Morgan Library 92; 2. Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale 3016, former Leber 6 (Laber Group); 3. Warsaw, Biblioteka Narodowa 8003,

• Detail of an historiated initial 'M' of Longinus knocking down idols., Lives of the Saints

Meyer 1906 and Thompson 1999).According to Branner 1977, illuminated by 4 artists, of whom 3 are related to: 1. New York Pierpont Morgan Library 92; 2. Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale 3016, former Leber 6 (Laber Group); 3. Warsaw, Biblioteka Narodowa 8003,

• Historiated initial 'T'(uit) of the martyrdom of Vincent on a spiked wheel., Lives of the Saints

Meyer 1906 and Thompson 1999).According to Branner 1977, illuminated by 4 artists, of whom 3 are related to: 1. New York Pierpont Morgan Library 92; 2. Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale 3016, former Leber 6 (Laber Group); 3. Warsaw, Biblioteka Narodowa 8003,

• Detail of an historiated initial 'M' of Christopher preaching to black men in a castle., Lives of the Saints

Meyer 1906 and Thompson 1999).According to Branner 1977, illuminated by 4 artists, of whom 3 are related to: 1. New York Pierpont Morgan Library 92; 2. Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale 3016, former Leber 6 (Laber Group); 3. Warsaw, Biblioteka Narodowa 8003,

• Historiated initial 'A'(u) of Agatha being tortured with pincers., Lives of the Saints

Meyer 1906 and Thompson 1999).According to Branner 1977, illuminated by 4 artists, of whom 3 are related to: 1. New York Pierpont Morgan Library 92; 2. Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale 3016, former Leber 6 (Laber Group); 3. Warsaw, Biblioteka Narodowa 8003,

• Detail of an historiated initial 'A' of Lucy in a fire being pierced by a spear., Lives of the Saints

Meyer 1906 and Thompson 1999).According to Branner 1977, illuminated by 4 artists, of whom 3 are related to: 1. New York Pierpont Morgan Library 92; 2. Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale 3016, former Leber 6 (Laber Group); 3. Warsaw, Biblioteka Narodowa 8003,

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uae) in Ovid's Epistolae ex Ponto., Epistolae ex Ponto

both colours. Epistolae ex Ponto Written in Northumbria, possibly at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary, York, according to Lawrence 1994 p. 466 and Lawrence-Mathers 2003 p. 124.Unidentified owner, 13th century?: ‘hic est | bu(?) | Walteri | [..?]eff’ (f.

• Initial 'N'(aso) and inscription of Roger Twysden, at the beginning of Ovid's Epistolae ex Ponto., Epistolae ex Ponto

green, red, or both colours. Epistolae ex Ponto Written in Northumbria, possibly at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary, York, according to Lawrence 1994 p. 466 and Lawrence-Mathers 2003 p. 124.Unidentified owner, 13th century?: ‘hic est | bu(?) | Walteri

• Decorated initial 'R'(edditus) in Ovid's Epistolae ex Ponto., Epistolae ex Ponto

both colours. Epistolae ex Ponto Written in Northumbria, possibly at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary, York, according to Lawrence 1994 p. 466 and Lawrence-Mathers 2003 p. 124.Unidentified owner, 13th century?: ‘hic est | bu(?) | Walteri | [..?]eff’ (f.

• Decorated initial 'R'(edditus) in Ovid's Epistolae ex Ponto., Epistolae ex Ponto

both colours. Epistolae ex Ponto Written in Northumbria, possibly at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary, York, according to Lawrence 1994 p. 466 and Lawrence-Mathers 2003 p. 124.Unidentified owner, 13th century?: ‘hic est | bu(?) | Walteri | [..?]eff’ (f.

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uae) in Ovid's Epistolae ex Ponto., Epistolae ex Ponto

both colours. Epistolae ex Ponto Written in Northumbria, possibly at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary, York, according to Lawrence 1994 p. 466 and Lawrence-Mathers 2003 p. 124.Unidentified owner, 13th century?: ‘hic est | bu(?) | Walteri | [..?]eff’ (f.

• Puzzle initial 'U'(erbum) with a foliate decoration, at the beginning of Hosea., Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss

blue. Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss The Benedictine cathedral priory of St. Mary, Worcester: inscribed by William Thornhill of York, c. 1528 (see a dated inscription by him in Royal 2 D. XXVI), 'Liber ecclesiae beatae Mariae Wigorne[nsis] /

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

Clericalis of Petrus Alphonsi, 14th century (f. 1).The Benedictine cathedral priory of St. Mary, Worcester: inscribed by William Thornhill of York, c. 1528 (see a dated inscription by him in Royal 2 D XXVI): inscribed 'Liber Ecclesiae beatae Mariae Wigorne[nsis]

• Text page., Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss

blue. Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss The Benedictine cathedral priory of St. Mary, Worcester: inscribed by William Thornhill of York, c. 1528 (see a dated inscription by him in Royal 2 D. XXVI), 'Liber ecclesiae beatae Mariae Wigorne[nsis] /

• Puzzle initial 'I'(n mense) with a foliate decoration, at the beginning of Zechariah., Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss

blue. Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss The Benedictine cathedral priory of St. Mary, Worcester: inscribed by William Thornhill of York, c. 1528 (see a dated inscription by him in Royal 2 D. XXVI), 'Liber ecclesiae beatae Mariae Wigorne[nsis] /

• Puzzle initial 'V'(erbum) with a foliate decoration, at the beginning of Joel, and two puzzle initials 'S'(anctus) and 'J'(oel) at the beginning of the prologues to Joel., Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss

blue. Minor Prophets and Job, with gloss The Benedictine cathedral priory of St. Mary, Worcester: inscribed by William Thornhill of York, c. 1528 (see a dated inscription by him in Royal 2 D. XXVI), 'Liber ecclesiae beatae Mariae Wigorne[nsis] /

• Zoomorphic initial 'A'(nno) at the beginning of Daniel., Jeremiah and Daniel with the Glossa Ordinaria

Clericalis of Petrus Alphonsi, 14th century (f. 1).The Benedictine cathedral priory of St. Mary, Worcester: inscribed by William Thornhill of York, c. 1528 (see a dated inscription by him in Royal 2 D XXVI): inscribed 'Liber Ecclesiae beatae Mariae Wigorne[nsis]

• Plain red initial 'E'(cclesiastica) at the beginning of the first theological tract, with the ownership inscription of the Augustinian Priory of Merton, Surrey, in the upper margin, and the monogram of Thomas Wolsey in the lower margin., Various theological tracts, beginning, 'Ecclesiastica corectio que fit per excomunionem', Sentences analogous to the work of Peter Lombard, various brief texts on religious topics (De excomunicatione etc.), Isidore of Seville's exposition on Genesis and Exodus, extracts from Jerome's Epistolas taken from the Florilegium Angelicum, Sic et Non, imperfect at the beginning and the end, Dialogus inter philosophum, Iudaeum et Christianum, imperfect at the beginning and the end, excerpts attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux

and dissolved in 1538: inscribed, 'L[i]b[er] s[anc]te Mar[ie] Merton' (f. 1).Thomas Wolsey (b. 1470/71, d. 1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal: 'TC' monogram, perhaps for Thomas Cardinalis (f. 1) (see Carley 2000, p. xxxiii).The Old Royal Library (the

• Zoomorphic initial 'F'(ecit) at the beginning of the prologue to the Gospels., Glossed Matthew and Mark

one with an animal head (f. 44). Paraphs in brown. Glossed Matthew and Mark The cathedral church of St Peter, York: 13th-century ? inscription 'Liber sanct[ ] ebor' (f. 3); inscribed, 14th-century, with a title and 'de Thesauraria Ebor ecclesie

• Illuminated initial 'M('atheus) at the beginning of the prologue to Matthew., Glossed Matthew and Mark

one with an animal head (f. 44). Paraphs in brown. Glossed Matthew and Mark The cathedral church of St Peter, York: 13th-century ? inscription 'Liber sanct[ ] ebor' (f. 3); inscribed, 14th-century, with a title and 'de Thesauraria Ebor ecclesie