• Decorated initial 'S') with foliate motifs., Symbolum fidei (f. 1), and Registrum epistolarum beati Gregorii in 14 books (ff. 1-198v), imperfect at the end (missing two epistles) (index Letters of Pope Gregory the Great)

with foliate motifs. f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf with an added partial table of contents.f. 199 is a parchment flyleaf.The Registrum epistolarum is a collection of Gregory's letters in 14 books, one for each year of his pontificate. It

• Initial 'M' with penwork decoration in leaf patterns and capitals on coloured grounds., Symbolum fidei, Registrum; Recantation of 1079

armario claustri s[anc]ti Edm[und]i regis et m[arti]ris' (f. 1) and with the press-mark 'G.16'.John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 1); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection,

• Text page., Symbolum fidei, Registrum; Recantation of 1079

armario claustri s[anc]ti Edm[und]i regis et m[arti]ris' (f. 1) and with the press-mark 'G.16'.John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 1); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection,

• Large initial 'V' with penwork decoration (incomplete)., Symbolum fidei, Registrum; Recantation of 1079

armario claustri s[anc]ti Edm[und]i regis et m[arti]ris' (f. 1) and with the press-mark 'G.16'.John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 1); listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection,

• Decorated initial 'B'(reves) with foliate motifs., Chronicon (ff. 1v-94v), Chronology of Roman emperors (ff. 94v-96), Chronology of the dukes of Normandy to 1035 (ff. 96-96v), with prominent entries relating to the founding of the abbey of Mont St. Michel, the beginning of the building of the church and Suppo's abbacy (f. 96), Genealogy of the Kings of France to 987 (ff. 97-100)

if not the same, as the scribe of Royal 13 A XXII.For the text, see Migne, Patr. Lat. CXXIII. 23. 1 large initial in red and green with foliate motifs (f. 1v). Smaller plain initials in red or green. Capitals

• null, Chronicon (ff. 1v-94v), Chronology of Roman emperors (ff. 94v-96), Chronology of the dukes of Normandy to 1035 (ff. 96-96v), with prominent entries relating to the founding of the abbey of Mont St. Michel, the beginning of the building of the church and Suppo's abbacy (f. 96), Genealogy of the Kings of France to 987 (ff. 97-100)

the same, as the scribe of Royal 13 A XXII.For the text, see Migne, Patr. Lat. CXXIII. 23. 1 large initial in red and green with foliate motifs (f. 1v). Smaller plain initials in red or green. Capitals marked in

• null, Chronicon (ff. 1v-94v), Chronology of Roman emperors (ff. 94v-96), Chronology of the dukes of Normandy to 1035 (ff. 96-96v), with prominent entries relating to the founding of the abbey of Mont St. Michel, the beginning of the building of the church and Suppo's abbacy (f. 96), Genealogy of the Kings of France to 987 (ff. 97-100)

the same, as the scribe of Royal 13 A XXII.For the text, see Migne, Patr. Lat. CXXIII. 23. 1 large initial in red and green with foliate motifs (f. 1v). Smaller plain initials in red or green. Capitals marked in

• Detail of decorated initial., Psalter with Old English gloss, the Psalms preceded by a calendar and compotus material (ff. 1-12), and followed by canticles and litany (ff. 119-132v), and prayers (ff. 143-148v)

symbols of the Evangelists. 12 outline drawings of signs of the Zodiac in red ink in the calendar (ff. 2-7v). 1 historiated initial (f. 13), and 2 decorated foliate initials (ff. 53, 85), all in colours and accompanied by coloured

• Detail of drawing of Gemini., Psalter with Old English gloss, the Psalms preceded by a calendar and compotus material (ff. 1-12), and followed by canticles and litany (ff. 119-132v), and prayers (ff. 143-148v)

symbols of the Evangelists. 12 outline drawings of signs of the Zodiac in red ink in the calendar (ff. 2-7v). 1 historiated initial (f. 13), and 2 decorated foliate initials (ff. 53, 85), all in colours and accompanied by coloured

• Detail of a drawing of Sagittarius., Psalter with Old English gloss, the Psalms preceded by a calendar and compotus material (ff. 1-12), and followed by canticles and litany (ff. 119-132v), and prayers (ff. 143-148v)

symbols of the Evangelists. 12 outline drawings of signs of the Zodiac in red ink in the calendar (ff. 2-7v). 1 historiated initial (f. 13), and 2 decorated foliate initials (ff. 53, 85), all in colours and accompanied by coloured

• Detail of historiated initial., Psalter with Old English gloss, the Psalms preceded by a calendar and compotus material (ff. 1-12), and followed by canticles and litany (ff. 119-132v), and prayers (ff. 143-148v)

symbols of the Evangelists. 12 outline drawings of signs of the Zodiac in red ink in the calendar (ff. 2-7v). 1 historiated initial (f. 13), and 2 decorated foliate initials (ff. 53, 85), all in colours and accompanied by coloured

• Puzzle initial with penwork flourishing, and in the lower margin, the ownership inscription 'James Orchard Halliwell No. 220'., Lives of saints, 28 miracles of the Virgin, and Henry of Sawtrey's De purgatorio Sancti Patricii (ff. 195-196)

ink as far as 'lx' (f. 125). Large puzzle initial in red and blue, with purple and red pen-flourishing (f. 1). Large initials in red with purple pen-flourishing, and in blue with red pen-flourishing. Initials in red. Paraphs in red.

• Illuminated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with interlace decoration, at the beginning of the Gospel of Luke., Gospels, with capitula (ff. 163-175)

Illuminated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with interlace decoration, at the beginning of the Gospel of Luke. Full-page canon tables in gold and red, within frames of gold and/or silver and colours (ff. 1-6v). Very large initials in colours and gold with

• Miniature of the Nativity, before Mark., Four Gospels, with list of lections (ff. 168v-177)

Boecker; Nordenfalk.? Count de Renesse-Breidbach, who sold 437 objects, including one manuscript, on 1 October 1835 in Antwerp: book-plate with the printed 'Ex Bibliotheca Renessiana No' inscribed '1' (inside upper cover), Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London

• Simple initial 'O'(mnis) with a face in Pierre Tudebode's Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere., Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere

Simple initial 'O'(mnis) with a face in Pierre Tudebode's Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere. 1 initial in red with arabesque motifs (f. 1). Initials in red or brown with some penwork decoration, including dots, lines, simple spiralling extensions and once with

• Foliate initial 'S'(cripta), followed by display script, at the beginning of Prudentius' 'Peristephanon'., Cathemerinon (2-16); Peristephanon (16-62); and other smaller texts including letters to/from Berengar of Tours

from this manuscript (f. 63) by Huygens 1967, pp. 502-03.Musical notation: neumes. 1 large foliate initial in brown (f. 16v). 2 initials in red with penwork decoration (ff. 1, 33). Initials in brown, occasionally with some penwork decoration in brown

• Decorated initial 'I'(n) at the beginning of Ovid's Metamorphosisis., Metamorphoses, with commentary

beginning of Ovid's Metamorphosisis. f. 1 is a former pastedown and f. 2 is a parchment flyleaf.f. 197r-v was originally blank leaf with later additions.The decorated initials are executed in a Florentine style, and the manuscript was made c. 1400

• 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)

Breton Gospel books (see Cohen and Teviotdale 2002). The punctuation is unusual, and is similar to that found in Royal 1 A xviii: 2 dots and a comma (see McGurk and Szerwiniak 1996). Anglo-Saxon neums have been added at the

• Illuminated zoomorphic initial 'S'(ororem) in the form of a bird, at the beginning of Terences's Andria., Comediae (index Comedies), preceded by arguments and prologues: Andria (ff. 1-27v), Eunuchus (ff. 28-57v), Heauton tirorumenos (ff. 58-87), Adelphoe (f. 87-113v), Hecyra (ff. 114-137v), Phormio (ff. 138-166v)

'S'(ororem) in the form of a bird, at the beginning of Terences's Andria. 1 large zoomorphic initial, in colours and gold, with foliate marginal extensions (f. 1). 7 large foliate initials, in colours and shell gold, at the beginnings of

• Decorate foliate initial 'M'(eretrix) at the beginning of the Argument to Terence's Eunuchus., Comediae (index Comedies), preceded by arguments and prologues: Andria (ff. 1-27v), Eunuchus (ff. 28-57v), Heauton tirorumenos (ff. 58-87), Adelphoe (f. 87-113v), Hecyra (ff. 114-137v), Phormio (ff. 138-166v)

Decorate foliate initial 'M'(eretrix) at the beginning of the Argument to Terence's Eunuchus. 1 large zoomorphic initial, in colours and gold, with foliate marginal extensions (f. 1). 7 large foliate initials, in colours and shell gold, at the beginnings of