• 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.

• 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]

• 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

• Illuminated initial 'L'(iber) at the beginning of Matthew, with acanthus leaf decoration., 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'(arcus) at the beginning of the prologue to Mark, with foliate decoration., 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 'I'(nitium) at the beginning of Mark, with acanthus leaf decoration., 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

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

abstulerit aut titulu[m] deleu[er]it anathema sit. Am[en]', 13th century (f. 6).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. 1).The Old Royal

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

name of Willelmus Dolte, no. 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

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

name of Willelmus Dolte, no. 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

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

name of Willelmus Dolte, no. 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

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

name of Willelmus Dolte, no. 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

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

name of Willelmus Dolte, no. 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

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

name of Willelmus Dolte, no. 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

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

name of Willelmus Dolte, no. 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

• Initial with penwork decoration., 'Liber poenitentialis', imperfect at the end (ff. 37-49v), preceded by a table of contents (ff. 36 r-v)

least the 14th century formed part of a larger volume including Cotton Vespasian D XIX, ff. 83-112v. The Austin Friars, York: recorded in their library catalogue, dated 1372 (see Ker and Watson 1987; Humphreys 1990).Henry Savile, of Banke (b. 1568

• 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)

in Durham library catalogues of 1391 and 1416; probably borrowed and returned to Durham by Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York (d. 1405), whose name is written beside the volume's entry in the Durham catalogue of 1416.Inscribed in faint brown