• Illuminated initial 'D'(ixit) at the beginning of Psalm 109, with foliate decoration., 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,

• Large initials, some with zoomorphic pen-flourishing, and a marginal drawing of a dog? and a human half-bust figure, in the Sermones de quadragesima., Sermones de quadragesima (imperfect)

Large initials, some with zoomorphic pen-flourishing, and a marginal drawing of a dog? and a human half-bust figure, in the Sermones de quadragesima. Large initials (2 lines) in brown, mostly with (zoomorphic) pen-flourishing in brown, with red infill. Capital

• Decorated initial 'L'(iber) at the beginning of the reading for Christmas Day from Matthew 1:1-18., Liber Vitae of Newminster and Hyde, with register, charters, customs, the will of Alfred the Great, benedictions and order of Mass, etc.

neumes (with ~litterae significativae~), England (New Minster – Winchester), second quarter of the 11th century (f. 50-50v) 2 full-page and 1 half-page ink drawings with some colours and a wash of green, blue or red (ff. 6-7). Large and small

• Coloured initials., 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 initial 'C', with a cross in the upper margin., 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 initial 'Q'(uare) at the beginning of Psalm 2., 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,

• Text page., 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,

• Detail of coloured initial., 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,

• Detail of text., 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,

• Detail of text., 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,

• Easter table, in an architectural frame., 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,

• Text pages with large and small coloured initials and numbers., Poeticon astronomicon, Description of the constellations; In Somnium Scipionis

Text pages with large and small coloured initials and numbers. The three parts were bound together by c. 1124 (according to unpublished notes of Michael Gullick).ff. 1-27 : The Poeticon astronimicon is written in two columns, the outer one

• Detail of an allegorical miniature of a bush of the Tudor rose incorporating a Latin poem celebrating the House of Tudor, with a scroll reading 'Salve, radix varios producens germine ramos, / Quos inter ramus supereminet altior unus', with daisies for Henry VIII's sister Margaret of Scotland, and marigolds for his another sister, Mary of France, and a pomegranate bush for his wife, Katherine of Aragon, enclosed within a walled garden with tours surmounted by banners of the royal arms of England, George, and Castile, and a gateway with a lion, flanked by a red dragon and a white greyhound, and inscribed with words 'salve felix Anglia'., Motets

notation. 1 full-page miniature in colours and gold of the Tudor rose (f. 2). 2 miniatures in colours and gold of red roses of Lancaster surrounded by couplets with music inscribed on two circular staves (ff. 2v, 3). 1 historiated

• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(eptemtrionalis) of a dragon., Historia Langobardorum, in six books, each preceded by a table of contents, added hymn on the preservation of St. Bertin's abbey at St. Omer from destruction by fire (ff. 71v-72) (index Historia Longobardorum)

dragon. Ruled in hardpoint.ff. i*, 1, 73 are parchment flyleaves.Incipit: 'Septemtrionalis plaga'. The scribe is like, if not the same, as the scribe of Royal 13 A XXIII.Added on ff. 71v-72, in a smaller contemporary hand, is a hymn on

• Detail of a decorated initial 'P'., Theological texts

but mostly unfinished and left in different stages of execution (ff. 5-55v, 109), at the beginning of books and chapters. 1 space left for an initial (f. 41v) and numerous initials in red, brown or green, some with penwork decoration

• Decorated initial 'P'(etrus) at the beginning of Bede's commentary on the Epistle of Peter., Commentary on Catholic Epistles and Commentary on Tobit

(ff. 4-86v) and the Commentary on Tobit (ff. 86v-95) by Bede, with the 'nota' signs and tituli in the margins. 1 inhabited initial in colours at the beginning of Bede's commentary to James's Epistle (f. 2). 7 large initials in

• Decorated initial 'L'(iber) at the beginning of Bede's commentary on the Epistle of Jude., Commentary on Catholic Epistles and Commentary on Tobit

(ff. 4-86v) and the Commentary on Tobit (ff. 86v-95) by Bede, with the 'nota' signs and tituli in the margins. 1 inhabited initial in colours at the beginning of Bede's commentary to James's Epistle (f. 2). 7 large initials in

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uod) at the beginning of Bede's commentary on the first Epistle of John., Commentary on Catholic Epistles and Commentary on Tobit

(ff. 4-86v) and the Commentary on Tobit (ff. 86v-95) by Bede, with the 'nota' signs and tituli in the margins. 1 inhabited initial in colours at the beginning of Bede's commentary to James's Epistle (f. 2). 7 large initials in

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uam) with a human face., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

of an ecclesiastical writ dated in 540, 16th century (f. 1). 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, no. 399

• Zoomorphic initial 'H'(anc)., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

of an ecclesiastical writ dated in 540, 16th century (f. 1). 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, no. 399