• Miniature of Victor, the Milanese martyr, crowned, and holding a shield., Prayer book (The 'Prayer book of Archbishop Arnulph II of Milan')

silver and some colours on purple or orange grounds with interlace or foliate decoration before most texts or prayers (ff. 1, 16v, 28, 37v, 51, 52v, 53v, 54v, 56, 56v, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72v, 73v, 7478, 80v,

• Miniature of two apostles holding books., Prayer book (The 'Prayer book of Archbishop Arnulph II of Milan')

silver and some colours on purple or orange grounds with interlace or foliate decoration before most texts or prayers (ff. 1, 16v, 28, 37v, 51, 52v, 53v, 54v, 56, 56v, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72v, 73v, 7478, 80v,

• Miniature of two martyrs holding crowns., Prayer book (The 'Prayer book of Archbishop Arnulph II of Milan')

silver and some colours on purple or orange grounds with interlace or foliate decoration before most texts or prayers (ff. 1, 16v, 28, 37v, 51, 52v, 53v, 54v, 56, 56v, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72v, 73v, 7478, 80v,

• Miniature of two standing bishops. This miniature precedes the prayer for confessors and the figures are probably meant to be bishop confessors., Prayer book (The 'Prayer book of Archbishop Arnulph II of Milan')

silver and some colours on purple or orange grounds with interlace or foliate decoration before most texts or prayers (ff. 1, 16v, 28, 37v, 51, 52v, 53v, 54v, 56, 56v, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72v, 73v, 7478, 80v,

• Miniature of two deacons, probably intended to face a prayer to deacons., Prayer book (The 'Prayer book of Archbishop Arnulph II of Milan')

silver and some colours on purple or orange grounds with interlace or foliate decoration before most texts or prayers (ff. 1, 16v, 28, 37v, 51, 52v, 53v, 54v, 56, 56v, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72v, 73v, 7478, 80v,

• Miniature of the giving of a battle-standard to a mounted emperor by a bishop (Ambrose?), below the end of a prayer for the emperor, and facing a prayer entitled 'For the blessing of a military standard' (signum bellicum) that refers to the imperial banner prepared for use in war (hoc vexillum quod bellico usui preparatum est); see Lowden 2003 p. 36., Prayer book (The 'Prayer book of Archbishop Arnulph II of Milan')

silver and some colours on purple or orange grounds with interlace or foliate decoration before most texts or prayers (ff. 1, 16v, 28, 37v, 51, 52v, 53v, 54v, 56, 56v, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72v, 73v, 7478, 80v,

• Coloured initial 'P'(rimus) at the beginning of notes on the compotus, and below, an added list of the archbishops of Canterbury., Treatise on the compotus, 'Ratio Gai cesaris de ordine anni', instructions for the discovery of the age of the moon, a table of moveable feasts, and other texts

'51' (f. 1).John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609), mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary: his 'Jupiter' sign (top righthand corner of f. 1); his annotations (ff. 60v-61). William Cecil (b. 1520/21, d. 1598), 1st Baron Burghley, royal minister; his sale, 21 November

• Text page., Part leaf of a noted Missal with part of the text for Holy Saturday including the Canticle of Moses

Text page. ff. 69-72 are fragments from the same manuscript as Stowe 1061 f. 125. Musical notation in many fragments.Mostly removed from bindings.ff. 1-21v; 24-47v; 51-57v; 61-63v; 65; 67-68v; 73 are various fragments, including of the Laws of Alfred

• Miniature of two standing bishops, and illuminated initial with an animal head at the beginning of the prayer for confessors and the figures are probably meant to be bishop confessors., Prayer book (The 'Prayer book of Archbishop Arnulph II of Milan')

silver and some colours on purple or orange grounds with interlace or foliate decoration before most texts or prayers (ff. 1, 16v, 28, 37v, 51, 52v, 53v, 54v, 56, 56v, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72v, 73v, 7478, 80v,

• Miniature of two deacons, probably intended to face a prayer to deacons, and illuminated initial., Prayer book (The 'Prayer book of Archbishop Arnulph II of Milan')

silver and some colours on purple or orange grounds with interlace or foliate decoration before most texts or prayers (ff. 1, 16v, 28, 37v, 51, 52v, 53v, 54v, 56, 56v, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72v, 73v, 7478, 80v,

• Miniature of the giving of a battle-standard to a mounted emperor by a bishop (Ambrose?), below the end of a prayer for the emperor, and facing a prayer with an illuminated initial entitled 'For the blessing of a military standard' (signum bellicum) that refers to the imperial banner prepared for use in war (hoc vexillum quod bellico usui preparatum est); see Lowden 2003 p. 36., Prayer book (The 'Prayer book of Archbishop Arnulph II of Milan')

silver and some colours on purple or orange grounds with interlace or foliate decoration before most texts or prayers (ff. 1, 16v, 28, 37v, 51, 52v, 53v, 54v, 56, 56v, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72v, 73v, 7478, 80v,

• Zoomorphic initial 'P'(auci) with grotesque and knot-work motifs, at the beginning of Jerome's 'Contra Iouinianum'., De mysteriis (ff. 1-4v); De sacramentis (ff. 4v-16v); Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini (serm. 17, ff. 16v-18v); Contra Iouinianum (ff. 18v-69v); Hypomnesticon (ff. 69v-90)

Erased inscription on f. 2*v. In the manuscript 'De mysteriis' begins imperfectly (leaves lost before f. 1), 'Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini' is ascribed to Isidore of Seville and has the running header 'De Mysteriis' and the 'Hypomnesticon' is

• Historiated initial with the Adoration of the Magi at Sext in the Hours of the Virgin, with a hybrid creature in the lower margin., Psalter-Hours

combined with a bar border with ivy on three or four sides (f. 13: David playing the harp, for Psalm 1, praying lady, hybrid creature in the border; f. 42: David pointing at his eye, for Psalm 26 (27), lady,

• Initial incorporating further letters ('Si virtutum') with knotwork and foliate motifs, followed by display script, at the beginning of Ambrose's 'De poenitentia'. In the outer margin, an ownership inscription of the late 12th or early 13th century in a decorated triangular frame with a mask. The same or a near contemporary hand also added the rubric to the text. In the margin are also notes in the hand of Heinrich Schupp, abbot of the Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary and St Nicholas in Arnstein in the 16th century., De officiis ministrorum; Sermo de resurrectione domini; De poenitentia

initials. Rubrics in red. De officiis ministrorum; Sermo de resurrectione domini; De poenitentia Parts 1 and 2 were together by the 12th century: in part 1, the scribe/illuminator of part 2 added red initials/letters (ff. 66v, 131v), replaced some text

• Illuminated initial 'B'(eatus) and full border at the beginning of Psalm one, decorated with painted foliage, an animal mask and animal heads., Psalter and prayers ('The Eadui Psalter', 'The Arundel Psalter')

Church calendar (ff. 2-7v).f. 1 is a 13th-century text with initials in green, red, and red with green penwork decoration.Basan also wrote Hanover, Kestner Museum MS WM XXIa 36; parts of York, Minster Lib., MS Add. 1; Additional 34890; Florence,

• Historiated initial 'D'(omine) at the beginning of Psalm 101, with David beheading Goliath, and an illuminated border., Psalter and prayers ('The Eadui Psalter', 'The Arundel Psalter')

Church calendar (ff. 2-7v).f. 1 is a 13th-century text with initials in green, red, and red with green penwork decoration.Basan also wrote Hanover, Kestner Museum MS WM XXIa 36; parts of York, Minster Lib., MS Add. 1; Additional 34890; Florence,

• Full-page miniature of seated Benedict holding an abbot's staff in his right hand and an open book in his left, with a kneeling monk, possibly the scribe/artist Eadui Basan at his feet., Psalter and prayers ('The Eadui Psalter', 'The Arundel Psalter')

Church calendar (ff. 2-7v).f. 1 is a 13th-century text with initials in green, red, and red with green penwork decoration.Basan also wrote Hanover, Kestner Museum MS WM XXIa 36; parts of York, Minster Lib., MS Add. 1; Additional 34890; Florence,

• Illuminated initial 'Q'(uid) at the beginning of Psalm 51, with the Evangelist symbols of the ox of Luke and the eagle of John in roundels in the border., Psalter and prayers ('The Eadui Psalter', 'The Arundel Psalter')

Church calendar (ff. 2-7v).f. 1 is a 13th-century text with initials in green, red, and red with green penwork decoration.Basan also wrote Hanover, Kestner Museum MS WM XXIa 36; parts of York, Minster Lib., MS Add. 1; Additional 34890; Florence,

• Calendar page for November, with coloured initials and words in colour., Psalter and prayers ('The Eadui Psalter', 'The Arundel Psalter')

Church calendar (ff. 2-7v).f. 1 is a 13th-century text with initials in green, red, and red with green penwork decoration.Basan also wrote Hanover, Kestner Museum MS WM XXIa 36; parts of York, Minster Lib., MS Add. 1; Additional 34890; Florence,

• Coloured initials and twelfth-century textual corrections to the Roman version of the Psalter to conform to the more common 'Gallican' version, made in a much paler brown ink., Psalter and prayers ('The Eadui Psalter', 'The Arundel Psalter')

Church calendar (ff. 2-7v).f. 1 is a 13th-century text with initials in green, red, and red with green penwork decoration.Basan also wrote Hanover, Kestner Museum MS WM XXIa 36; parts of York, Minster Lib., MS Add. 1; Additional 34890; Florence,