• Decorated initial 'E'(vangelium) with dragons and a human mask, at the beginning of sermons of Augustine., Sermones de verbis Domini et apostoli

sit liber iste, q[uod] W[ybarn]', c. 1467 (see a dated inscription in Royal 2 C I) (f. 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 809' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Coloured initial 'I'(ncipiunt) at the beginning of the list of capitula, with the ownership inscription of the cathedral priory of St. Andrew, Rochester, reading 'Liber de claust[r]o Roffens[i].', Sermones de verbis Domini et apostoli

sit liber iste, q[uod] W[ybarn]', c. 1467 (see a dated inscription in Royal 2 C I) (f. 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 809' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Zoomorphic initial 'A'(udiviumus) with a dragon and foliate decoration., Sermones de verbis Domini et apostoli

sit liber iste, q[uod] W[ybarn]', c. 1467 (see a dated inscription in Royal 2 C I) (f. 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 809' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'D'(ixit)., Sermones de verbis Domini et apostoli

sit liber iste, q[uod] W[ybarn]', c. 1467 (see a dated inscription in Royal 2 C I) (f. 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 809' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'A'(dmoniri)., Sermones de verbis Domini et apostoli

sit liber iste, q[uod] W[ybarn]', c. 1467 (see a dated inscription in Royal 2 C I) (f. 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 809' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'A'(udivimus)., Sermones de verbis Domini et apostoli

sit liber iste, q[uod] W[ybarn]', c. 1467 (see a dated inscription in Royal 2 C I) (f. 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 809' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Zoomorphic initial 'D'(ominus) with dragons and foliate decoration., Sermones de verbis Domini et apostoli

sit liber iste, q[uod] W[ybarn]', c. 1467 (see a dated inscription in Royal 2 C I) (f. 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 809' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'H'(ester)., Sermones de verbis Domini et apostoli

sit liber iste, q[uod] W[ybarn]', c. 1467 (see a dated inscription in Royal 2 C I) (f. 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 809' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Text page with decorated initials., Commentary on the Psalms (51-100)

and Gilson 1921).Steven Speccot, perhaps of the Speccot family of Penheale, Cornwall: his name written on f. 223v.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 678 '; included in the inventory of books in the Upper

• Framed initial 'Q' with foliate decoration., Commentary on the Psalms (51-100)

and Gilson 1921).Steven Speccot, perhaps of the Speccot family of Penheale, Cornwall: his name written on f. 223v.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 678 '; included in the inventory of books in the Upper

• Initial 'C' with foliate decoration and display script. Decorated initials., Commentary on the Psalms (51-100)

and Gilson 1921).Steven Speccot, perhaps of the Speccot family of Penheale, Cornwall: his name written on f. 223v.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 678 '; included in the inventory of books in the Upper

• Detail of inscription at the bottom of the folio., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

press mark 'D VII' and title (f. 2); included in the 1389 catalogue.John Joscelin [Joscelyn] (b. 1529, d. 1603), OldEnglish scholar and Church of England clergyman, Archbishop Parker's secretary (with his annotations and supplements; see Tite, 1992, p. 117).?

• Zoomorphic initial 'N'(ullum), with display script, at the beginning of Augustine's commentary to Psalm 85., Enarrationes in Psalmos (Volume 2)

and in the catalogue of 1202, no. 6 as 'super psalterium in tribus magnis voluminibus' (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 81' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books

• Detail of a drawing of a hybrid with the head of a woman, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish, within two concentric circles, preceding Horace's Ars Poetica., Ars Poetica, Sermones, Epistulae, and a Life of Horace, with glosses

scholar, recorded in lists in Harley 6018, f. 159v, and Additional 35213, ff. 34-34v (see Colin 1992). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 2); inscribed 'Codex Bibliothecae Regiae Jacobi'; included

• Drawing of a hybrid with the head of a woman, the legs of a horse, and the tail of a fish, within two concentric circles, preceding Horace's Ars Poetica., Ars Poetica, Sermones, Epistulae, and a Life of Horace, with glosses

scholar, recorded in lists in Harley 6018, f. 159v, and Additional 35213, ff. 34-34v (see Colin 1992). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 2); inscribed 'Codex Bibliothecae Regiae Jacobi'; included

• Decorated initial 'H'(umano), at the beginning of Horace's Ars Poetica, with two ownership inscriptions of Sir Robert Cotton, reading 'Robertus Cotton' at top and 'Robertus Cotton Bruceus' at bottom., Ars Poetica, Sermones, Epistulae, and a Life of Horace, with glosses

scholar, recorded in lists in Harley 6018, f. 159v, and Additional 35213, ff. 34-34v (see Colin 1992). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): royal seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 2); inscribed 'Codex Bibliothecae Regiae Jacobi'; included

• Detail of a foliate initial 'D'(omino) with human heads, at the beginning of the preface., Commentary on Matthew

præfatione notis et indice ad editionem primam~, 6 vols (Farnborough: Gregg International Publishers, 1970), IV, p. 160). The Old Royal Library (English Royal library) after 1533: Westminster inventory number 'no 207', included in the inventory of books in the Upper

• Inhabited initial 'B'(eatus) with 'white lions', at the beginning of the treatise on Psalm 1., Flores Psalterii

prior of the Rochester cell at Walton St. Felix, or Felixstowe ('Waletune') (Royal 5 B. XII, f. 3).The Old Royal Library (The English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 705' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'A'(pud) at the beginning of the Commentary on Psalms., Commentary on Psalms

St. Mary and St. Benedict, Ramsey: inscribed on a pasted piece of parchment, 'Liber monasterii Rameseye' (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1289' (f. 2), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after

• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(anctus) formed of a dragon, with foliate decoration, display script, and pen-flourishing in the margin, at the beginning of the prologue to the commentary on Psalms., Commentary on Psalms 1-50

liber s[anc]ti Albani q[ue]m q[ui] ei abstulerit aut titulum delev[er]it anathema sit' 13th or 14th century (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'prima quinquagena Pulli s[upe]r psalteriu[m]', and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1359' (f. 1),