• Puzzle initial 'C'(ogitatio) with pen-flourishing., Historia ecclesiastica; Vita s. Guillelmi Gellonensis (index Guillaume of Aquitaine) (ff. 181-191v)

quire marks decorated with brown pen-flourishing. Historia ecclesiastica; Vita s. Guillelmi Gellonensis (index Guillaume of Aquitaine) (ff. 181-191v) The cathedral church of St-Nazaire, Carcassonne (Aude, France), 14th century: inscribed 'Iste liber est eccl[es]ie sedis s[an]c[t]I Nazarii Carcassone' (f. 1).The Harley

• Puzzle initials with penwork decoration, and bookstamp of the Franciscan monastery of Sancta Maria Annunciata, Varese, in the lower border., Sermonarium de commendatione virtutum et reprobatione vitiorum

Annunciata Varisii (ff. 1, 203v; see Watson 1973).With marginal notes in a 15th-century cursive hand.Conyers Middleton (b. 1683, d. 1750), Church of England clergyman and author, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1706, head librarian of the University Library at

• Initial with penwork decoration 'P'(retor)., Speculum monachorum

17th centuries: his name occurs in an English prayer on a stub (between ff. 70-71).John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John

• Marginal sketch of the city of Jerusalem., Speculum monachorum

17th centuries: his name occurs in an English prayer on a stub (between ff. 70-71).John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John

• Decorated initial 'R'(ex) with pen-flourishing., Baarlam et Josaphat, imperfect

Coloured initials in red or blue. Capitals marked with red. Baarlam et Josaphat, imperfect John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John

• Coloured initials at the beginning of Psalm 55; text in Greek, Latin and Arabic., Trilingual Psalter

made from the Greek by Abu l-Fath Abd Allah b. al-Fadl b. Abd Allah al-Mutran al-Antakie, deacon of the Melkite church of Antioch in the mid-eleventh century. This may be the earliest surviving manuscript of this translation. Headpieces in red

• Miniature of the Fortress of Faith defended by the fathers of the church, Gregory, Augustine, Jerome, and Ambrose fighting demons, with a full border containing a space for a coat of arms, and an illuminated initial 'A'(pres), at the beginning of book 5., Fortalitium fidei (La forteresse de la foy)

defended by the fathers of the church, Gregory, Augustine, Jerome, and Ambrose fighting demons, with a full border containing a space for a coat of arms, and an illuminated initial 'A'(pres), at the beginning of book 5. In two volumes,

• Historiated initial 'O' of the Adoration of the Magi, including an African king, measuring 140 x 160. On the reverse, partial two four-line staves, musical notation and text: '...regi da et m /...filio regis'., Cuttings from a Gradual

colours and gold, of a Memento Mori (f. 6), Larewnce (f. 11), a male martyr saint (f. 8), and a church (f. 12) with one four-line red stave, musical notation and text on their versos. 3 foliate initials in colours

• Historiated initial 'D' of a Memento Mori, measuring 125 x 110. On the reverse, partial four-line stave, musical notation and text: '...antur'., Cuttings from a Gradual

colours and gold, of a Memento Mori (f. 6), Larewnce (f. 11), a male martyr saint (f. 8), and a church (f. 12) with one four-line red stave, musical notation and text on their versos. 3 foliate initials in colours

• Historiated initial 'P' of the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, measuring 250 x 210. On the reverse, partial two four-line staves, musical notation and text: '...lo tu /… Co[n]. Exulta'., Cuttings from a Gradual

colours and gold, of a Memento Mori (f. 6), Larewnce (f. 11), a male martyr saint (f. 8), and a church (f. 12) with one four-line red stave, musical notation and text on their versos. 3 foliate initials in colours

• Historiated initial 'I' of a male martyr saint, measuring 100 x 95. On the reverse, partial four-line stave, musical notation and text: '...ti eum'., Cuttings from a Gradual

colours and gold, of a Memento Mori (f. 6), Larewnce (f. 11), a male martyr saint (f. 8), and a church (f. 12) with one four-line red stave, musical notation and text on their versos. 3 foliate initials in colours

• Historiated initial 'C' of Lawrence, measuring 135 x 120. On the reverse, partial four-line stave, musical notation and text: '...tate domi /...?ium can'., Cuttings from a Gradual

colours and gold, of a Memento Mori (f. 6), Larewnce (f. 11), a male martyr saint (f. 8), and a church (f. 12) with one four-line red stave, musical notation and text on their versos. 3 foliate initials in colours

• Foliate initial 'E', measuring 75 x 75. On the reverse, partial four-line stave, musical notation and text: '...me'., Cuttings from a Gradual

colours and gold, of a Memento Mori (f. 6), Larewnce (f. 11), a male martyr saint (f. 8), and a church (f. 12) with one four-line red stave, musical notation and text on their versos. 3 foliate initials in colours

• Foliate initial 'S', measuring 75 x 80. On the reverse, partial four-line stave, musical notation and text: '…tate e'., Cuttings from a Gradual

colours and gold, of a Memento Mori (f. 6), Larewnce (f. 11), a male martyr saint (f. 8), and a church (f. 12) with one four-line red stave, musical notation and text on their versos. 3 foliate initials in colours

• Foliate initial 'S', measuring 80 x 80. On the reverse, partial four-line stave, musical notation and text: '…um no(n)'., Cuttings from a Gradual

colours and gold, of a Memento Mori (f. 6), Larewnce (f. 11), a male martyr saint (f. 8), and a church (f. 12) with one four-line red stave, musical notation and text on their versos. 3 foliate initials in colours

• Bas-de-page scene of two men with one man head-downwards in a pit, while another man stands by a church., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

in a pit, while another man stands by a church. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous corrections.Part II: the Calendarium

• Evangelist portrait of Mark as a scribe, in colours and gold., Gospel Lectionary

gold capitals written over red. Marginal notations in red. Gospel Lectionary Notes in Greek relating to various priests of the church of St Kyriake, dated 1516, 1535, 1541, 1549,and 1560 (f.359v) (see Garthausen 1909).Lorenzo Alessandro Zacagni (d. 1712), prefect of

• Evangelist portrait of Luke as a scribe, in colours and gold., Gospel Lectionary

gold capitals written over red. Marginal notations in red. Gospel Lectionary Notes in Greek relating to various priests of the church of St Kyriake, dated 1516, 1535, 1541, 1549,and 1560 (f.359v) (see Garthausen 1909).Lorenzo Alessandro Zacagni (d. 1712), prefect of

• Volvelle for calculating Easter, other movable feasts, Sunday letters, the Golden Number and the leap year, with a figure (a woman?) in the centre., A literary and scientific miscellany, including the third version of the Latin Brut Chronicle of England (ff. 1-3v); Honorius's 'Imago mundi' (ff. 6-21); 'On the Times', a rhymed macaronic complaint lyric (ff. 21v-23v); Lydgate's 'Dietary' (ff. 24-25); Sacro Bosco's 'Tractatus de sphaera' (index De sphera)(ff. 30-49v); Langenstein's 'Expositio terminorum astronomiae' (ff. 51-58, 58-61v); Decembrius's 'Liber de Historia peregrina', Book 1, 'Cosmographia' (ff. 72-79v)

manuscript 237 in his library inventory, now Harley 7644 (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; sold in 1707 to Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Full-page drawing in brown ink of God the father and, below, Ptolemy, Aristotle, Sibilla, Brigida, and Reynhardus., Praenosticatio Latina or Prefagium

ordinis sancti Augustini (f. 147); and possibly its pressmark , 'A N' (f. 147).All parts:John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John