• Text page with decorated initial 'D'(omine) and rubric., Opera; Catalogue of the library of Lobbes Abbey (ff. 120v-124)

f. 2.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 2) but not in the 17th century catalogues.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal

• Text page with decorated initial 'O'(portuit) and rubric., Opera; Catalogue of the library of Lobbes Abbey (ff. 120v-124)

f. 2.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 2) but not in the 17th century catalogues.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal

• Text page with rubric at the beginning of catalogue of Lobbes Abbey library., Opera; Catalogue of the library of Lobbes Abbey (ff. 120v-124)

f. 2.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 2) but not in the 17th century catalogues.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal

• Text page with inscription, press marks and royal seal., Opera; Catalogue of the library of Lobbes Abbey (ff. 120v-124)

f. 2.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 2) but not in the 17th century catalogues.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal

• The first canon table decorated with human faces at the bases of each column, and animal heads at each end of the main arch., Gospels

'Text[us] de ecc[lesi]a Roffen[si] p[er] Godam comitissam. III' (f. 9).Added 'Exultet' with musical neums, 12th century (ff. 7v-8).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 200' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Coloured initial., Life and miracles of St Swithun

(epanaleptic) (ff. 49v-50v);Wulfstan's Narratio Metrica de S. Swithuno (ff. 51-124);Additional poems and miracles of St Swithun (ff. 124v-126v);A few OldEnglish glosses (ff. 109, 111).Marginal directions for reading at night office (ff. 3v-8). Large initials in red or green. Numerous

• Coloured initials., Life and miracles of St Swithun

(epanaleptic) (ff. 49v-50v);Wulfstan's Narratio Metrica de S. Swithuno (ff. 51-124);Additional poems and miracles of St Swithun (ff. 124v-126v);A few OldEnglish glosses (ff. 109, 111).Marginal directions for reading at night office (ff. 3v-8). Large initials in red or green. Numerous

• Coloured initials., Life and miracles of St Swithun

(epanaleptic) (ff. 49v-50v);Wulfstan's Narratio Metrica de S. Swithuno (ff. 51-124);Additional poems and miracles of St Swithun (ff. 124v-126v);A few OldEnglish glosses (ff. 109, 111).Marginal directions for reading at night office (ff. 3v-8). Large initials in red or green. Numerous

• Coloured initial, and inscriptions of later owners, including (upper margin) Thomas Dakombe (1496-c.1572), rector of St. Mary Colebrook at Winchester), and John, Lord Lumley., Life and miracles of St Swithun

(epanaleptic) (ff. 49v-50v);Wulfstan's Narratio Metrica de S. Swithuno (ff. 51-124);Additional poems and miracles of St Swithun (ff. 124v-126v);A few OldEnglish glosses (ff. 109, 111).Marginal directions for reading at night office (ff. 3v-8). Large initials in red or green. Numerous

• Coloured initial., Life and miracles of St Swithun

(epanaleptic) (ff. 49v-50v);Wulfstan's Narratio Metrica de S. Swithuno (ff. 51-124);Additional poems and miracles of St Swithun (ff. 124v-126v);A few OldEnglish glosses (ff. 109, 111).Marginal directions for reading at night office (ff. 3v-8). Large initials in red or green. Numerous

• Coloured initial., Life and miracles of St Swithun

(epanaleptic) (ff. 49v-50v);Wulfstan's Narratio Metrica de S. Swithuno (ff. 51-124);Additional poems and miracles of St Swithun (ff. 124v-126v);A few OldEnglish glosses (ff. 109, 111).Marginal directions for reading at night office (ff. 3v-8). Large initials in red or green. Numerous

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a prisoner seeking sanctuary from monks., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• null, Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a castle flanked by grotesques., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of a miniature of a mermaid and merman with bow and arrow in the border of the folio., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Detail of medallion scenes within the lower border of the folio., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

priory of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield: inscribed, 'Liber domus sancti barthomomei in smyth fylde', 15th century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper

• Text page with initials, marginal notes and ink drawing of a pitcher., De fide orthodoxa

1424) and in a list of books taken by a monk to Oxford in c.1438 (see Ker 1964).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 246 '; included in the inventory of books in the Upper

• Preface and beginning of Luke's gospel with decorated initial 'Q'(uoniam) enclosing a flower., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

of a man's head in profile (f. 75). Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in OldEnglish and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141) The Benedictine (later Augustinian) priory

• Inhabited initial 'B'(eatissimo), with animals and grotesques, at the beginning of the Life of St. Gregory., Life of St Gregory

12th century (f. 1).Added marginal drawing of two human figures kissing (?), 12th century (f. 123). Added annotations in 14th-century English hand.The Benedictine cathedral priory of St Mary, Worcester: included in Patrick Young's catalogue of the Worcester library, no. 36

• The first canon table with a zoomorphic decoration in the 'Trewhiddle Style'., Gospels, imperfect (the 'Royal Bible')

hand responsible for glossing the Vespasian Psalter, Cotton MS Vespasian A I, the oldest extant translation of Scripture into OldEnglish. 1 incipit page with miniature of an ox, the symbol of Luke, with God blessing, and an initial in