• Page with a text of Psalm 36:31-37:6 with illuminated initials and line-fillers, and with notes in Henry VIII's hand., Psalter ('The Psalter of Henry VIII')

marginal Latin annotations in his hand. The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number, no. 1283.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Text pages Jean Mallard, with

• Detail of a miniature of Henry VIII's court jester, William Somer (or Sommers), with an illuminated initial 'D'(ixit) containing a fly, at the beginning of Psalm 52., Psalter ('The Psalter of Henry VIII')

marginal Latin annotations in his hand. The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number, no. 1283.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. William Somer Jean Mallard, with

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of David praying, with a full border, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter with canticles, imperfect

origin: includes two feasts of Erkenwald in red (30 April, f. 3v and 14 November, f. 7).Added prayer in Middle English by Palden: inscribed 'Ihesu amarcy one Palden' and 'Iesu that all thys worlde hath wroght / Heven and erthe

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ixi) of David and Goliath, at the beginning of Psalm 38., Psalter with canticles, imperfect

origin: includes two feasts of Erkenwald in red (30 April, f. 3v and 14 November, f. 7).Added prayer in Middle English by Palden: inscribed 'Ihesu amarcy one Palden' and 'Iesu that all thys worlde hath wroght / Heven and erthe

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of the Anointing of David by Samuel, with a full bar border, at the beginning of Psalm 52., Psalter with canticles, imperfect

origin: includes two feasts of Erkenwald in red (30 April, f. 3v and 14 November, f. 7).Added prayer in Middle English by Palden: inscribed 'Ihesu amarcy one Palden' and 'Iesu that all thys worlde hath wroght / Heven and erthe

• Historiated initial 'S'(alvum) of the Triumph of Saul and David, with a full bar border, at the beginning of Psalm 68., Psalter with canticles, imperfect

origin: includes two feasts of Erkenwald in red (30 April, f. 3v and 14 November, f. 7).Added prayer in Middle English by Palden: inscribed 'Ihesu amarcy one Palden' and 'Iesu that all thys worlde hath wroght / Heven and erthe

• Detail of a historiated initial 'S'(alvum) of the Triumph of Saul and David, at the beginning of Psalm 68., Psalter with canticles, imperfect

origin: includes two feasts of Erkenwald in red (30 April, f. 3v and 14 November, f. 7).Added prayer in Middle English by Palden: inscribed 'Ihesu amarcy one Palden' and 'Iesu that all thys worlde hath wroght / Heven and erthe

• Detail of an historiated initial 'C'(antate) of David kneeling with a harp, and trumpeters before an ark, at the beginning of Psalm 97., Psalter with canticles, imperfect

origin: includes two feasts of Erkenwald in red (30 April, f. 3v and 14 November, f. 7).Added prayer in Middle English by Palden: inscribed 'Ihesu amarcy one Palden' and 'Iesu that all thys worlde hath wroght / Heven and erthe

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D'(ixit) of the Trinity, with the figure of God deliberately erased, at the beginning of Psalm 109., Psalter with canticles, imperfect

origin: includes two feasts of Erkenwald in red (30 April, f. 3v and 14 November, f. 7).Added prayer in Middle English by Palden: inscribed 'Ihesu amarcy one Palden' and 'Iesu that all thys worlde hath wroght / Heven and erthe

• Text page., Officium to Mary Magdalene, Calendar, Ordo and Canon of the Mass with offices of Dominic, Peter Martyr and Corona Domini; Collects of English saints (addition to the Breviary)

Mary Magdalene, Calendar, Ordo and Canon of the Mass with offices of Dominic, Peter Martyr and Corona Domini; Collects of English saints (addition to the Breviary) Part I: The Litany includes the added name of Martha, inserted into the liturgy

• Detail of an historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of David praying with a full border, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter with canticles, imperfect

origin: includes two feasts of Erkenwald in red (30 April, f. 3v and 14 November, f. 7).Added prayer in Middle English by Palden: inscribed 'Ihesu amarcy one Palden' and 'Iesu that all thys worlde hath wroght / Heven and erthe

• Text page with decorated initial 'N'(ovum) and manumissions in lower margin., 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

• Text page with manumissions in lower margin., 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

• Canon tables., 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

• Canon tables., 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

• Decorated initials 'IN' with 'I' forming interlace pattern border at the beginning of Mark's gospel., 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

• Text page with a sketch of a man's head in profile in the margin., 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

• A frame with five roundels and interlace panels, probably intended for a 'Christ in Majesty' miniature., 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

• Detail of an inserted miniature of a kneeling pilgrim, accompanied by a monk, presenting a book to a standing knight in armour. A later inscription on the facing folio identifies the monk as John Lydgate, and the knight as the Earl of Salisbury, to whom Lydgate's 'The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man' was dedicated. The figure of the monk may represent either Lydgate (d. c. 1450), a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Bury St Edwards, Suffolk, or Deguileville (d. c. 1358), a Cistercian at the abbey of Chalis in Valois, and the earl of Salisbury, Thomas Montague (d. 1428) may be the figure in armour (see Scott 1996, p. 305)., Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund (ff. 4-46); Secrees of Old Philisoffres (ff. 52-81); Regiment of Princes (ff. 84-144v); imperfect

text in English (ff. 1, 51, 82-83). f. 1* is a piece of parchment bound after f. 1 with, on one side a pen & brown ink wash faintly tinted in red, and on the verso, recipes in English. It

• Illuminated initials., Metrical lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund, in the presentation copy for Henry VI, including the prologue (ff. 1v-5)

this work on the life of king Edmund and his cousin Fremund from Latin into English verse to be presented to the 12 year old King Henry VI, to commemorate his stay at Bury from Christmas 1433 to Easter 1434.