• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(imon) at the beginning of book 3 of Bede's Commentary on Catholic Epistles., Commentary on Catholic Epistles

from an earlier (11th century ?) manuscript including two simple initials in red (oxidised). Apart from the last two, all quires have quire marks. Trace of metal fitting: one rust stain in centre of outer margin of f. 92. 1

• Puzzle initials for prologues and beginning of Amos., Bible, including the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, imperfect

proposed by Patricia Stirnemann. Numerous large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (except in quires viii and ix). The flourishing includes a fantastic animal on f. 1. Numerous smaller initials in red or blue

• Diagram of the orbs of the planets surrounding the earth ('globus terre'), with the sphere of the fixed stars at the periphery, identified by the names of the zodiacal signs; a thread is attached to the centre of the diagram., Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis

is attached to the centre of the diagram. Inconspicuous quire marks (on the verso of the last leaf of the quires). A thread used to hold a missing parchment disc in place for working with one circular diagram remains in

• Initial 'P'(ater) with penwork decoration., Theological works (imperfect), including Soliloquia, De immortalitate animae, De XII abusivis saeculi, De gratia et libero arbitrio and Sermons

of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires); catchwords; ae caudatas. Leaves missing before f. 1 and after f. 207. Full list of contents in Sharpe 1996, pp. 60-61. Numerous large and small initials

• Puzzle initial 'I'(gitur) with penwork decoration, followed by display script, at the beginning of Sulpicius Severus' 'Vita Martini Turonensis'., Texts on the life, miracles and translation of St Martin of Tours and one text on his successor St Brice

Quire marks 'i'-'xiiii' (in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires, including the last).5 leaves excised after f. 67; parts of text erased on ff. 67v, 68.Ampersands; uncrossed tironian ets. 1

• Two puzzle initials 'B'(eatus), with penwork decoration, followed by display script, at the beginning of the Gallican and the Hebrew version of the Psalms., Bible

headers, catchwords, quire marks (in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires). Erased inscriptions (ff. 1v, 2, 207v). Numerous large puzzle initials in red and blue with penwork decoration or pen-flourishing

• Initial 'D'(ifficiles) and puzzle initial 'A'(littera) at the beginning of William Brito's 'Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae'., Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae (ff. 2-127); Corrogationes Promethei (ff. 128-139)

the last leaf of the quire); leaf signatures (on the recto of the leaves of the first half of some quires: 'I'-'iiii'); catchwords.f. 1 is a medieval parchment flyleaf; remains of a lost parchment flyleaf is pasted on f. 1

• Two puzzle initials 'N'(e) and 'P'(astoralis) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Gregory the Great's De cura pastorali., Theological miscellany, including Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali (ff. 1-42v); Innocent III, De misera humanae conditionis (ff. 43-59) and Augustine, Retractationes, book 2 chapter 35 (59v); imperfect

from a 12th-century manuscript with musical notation, on four-line red staves.Leaf signatures (i, ii, iii, iiii, v) in crayon in quires 1-2; remains of catchwords. 2 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in both colours (f. 1).

• Puzzle initial 'A'(nno) with pen-flourishing., Chronica maiora

faces (ff. 1*-2*,190-191v only). Coloured initials in alternating red and blue. Extended ascender on the first line in a few quires. Chronica maiora The Cistercian abbey of St Mary's, Jervaulx (Yorkshire), late-13th or early-14th century: inscribed 'liber jorevallis (ff. 11v,

• Decorated initials with pen-flourishing., Glossed Digestum Vetus, in 24 books

ff. 70, 151 also only have gloss framing an empty space.All bifolios have been split into separate leaves so that quires can only be distinguished by catchwords and leaf signatures. Some leaves are significantly smaller (e.g., ff. 125-126).Parts of the

• Initial 'A'(dventus gallorum) in blue., Ab Urbe condita (index Codex Aginnensis)

The manuscript contains the rare fourth Decade as well as unusual textual variants. It is missing its initial and final quires; 'instead of the whole of the first, third and fourth Decade, it only gives the text of the Ab

• Initial 'M'., Ab Urbe condita (index Codex Aginnensis)

The manuscript contains the rare fourth Decade as well as unusual textual variants. It is missing its initial and final quires; 'instead of the whole of the first, third and fourth Decade, it only gives the text of the Ab

• Initials 'Q' and 'B'., Ab Urbe condita (index Codex Aginnensis)

The manuscript contains the rare fourth Decade as well as unusual textual variants. It is missing its initial and final quires; 'instead of the whole of the first, third and fourth Decade, it only gives the text of the Ab

• Flourished initials and coloured drawing of a scorpion with a short verse on the scorpion written around the edge: 'Scorpio efficitur pongens a posteriori Si quis blanditur nec mens consentiat ori', in Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

marginal coloured drawings of animals, often inside or juxtaposed with medallions or interlace patterns, at the end or beginning of quires (ff. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v, 104v, 112v, 120v, 128v, 136v). Holes

• Historiated initial 'Q'(ue) with Peter Lombard writing, in Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

marginal coloured drawings of animals, often inside or juxtaposed with medallions or interlace patterns, at the end or beginning of quires (ff. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v, 104v, 112v, 120v, 128v, 136v). Holes

• Decorated initials 'C'(um) and 'D'(iligentur), in Peter Lombard's Sentences; with a page marker in lower right-hand corner., Sententiae (index Sentences)

marginal coloured drawings of animals, often inside or juxtaposed with medallions or interlace patterns, at the end or beginning of quires (ff. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v, 104v, 112v, 120v, 128v, 136v). Holes

• Decorated initial 'C', at the beginning of Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

marginal coloured drawings of animals, often inside or juxtaposed with medallions or interlace patterns, at the end or beginning of quires (ff. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v, 104v, 112v, 120v, 128v, 136v). Holes

• Flourished initials, in Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

marginal coloured drawings of animals, often inside or juxtaposed with medallions or interlace patterns, at the end or beginning of quires (ff. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v, 104v, 112v, 120v, 128v, 136v). Holes

• Decorated initial 'C', at the beginning of Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

marginal coloured drawings of animals, often inside or juxtaposed with medallions or interlace patterns, at the end or beginning of quires (ff. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v, 104v, 112v, 120v, 128v, 136v). Holes

• Flourished initials, in Peter Lombard's Sentences., Sententiae (index Sentences)

marginal coloured drawings of animals, often inside or juxtaposed with medallions or interlace patterns, at the end or beginning of quires (ff. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v, 104v, 112v, 120v, 128v, 136v). Holes