• Decorated initials 'U'(t) and 'S'(uccessit) at the beginning of book 5 of Bede's Ecclesiastica historia., Epistola Cuthberti, Ecclesiastica historia; Aelred's Vita sancti Edwardi regis Anglorum (ff. 118-149), and other theological works

5 of Bede's Ecclesiastica historia. St Cuthbert was a seventh-century, English Christian leader, renowned for his ascetic practices and the miracles attributed to him during his lifetime and posthumously. Born in Northumbria around 635, he entered the monastery of Melrose

• Decorated initial 'I'(n) at the beginning of the Gospel of John., Hymns for the vigils of the Ascension ('Eterne rex altissime'), Katherine ('Disputando vicit virgo'), and Nicholas ('Sospitate dedit egros')

dedit egros') Miscellaneous notes and records of various dates, mainly relating to the business of the Exchequer in Latin and English (ff. 3-9;13-19v 83-90v).Additions to the calendar include various last quarter of the 14th-century and 15th-century events, including a note

• Inhabited initial 'P'(lures) in outline drawing, at the beginning of the Gospel Prologue, with a man fighting with a dragon., Gospels

England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Inhabited initial England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)

• Detail of an initial 'M'(atheus) of the archangel Michael killing a dragon, at the beginning of an 'argumentum' to Matthew., Gospels

of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Michael England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)

• Detail of a zoomorphic initial 'M', formed of two dragons., Gospels

of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Dragons England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)

• Decorated initial 'U'(niversis), at the beginning of the prologue to the commentary on Malachi of Gervase of Chichester., Commentary on Malachi and Homilies

the library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8181).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial Gervase of Chichester England

• Inhabited initial 'I'(nicium) at the beginning of Mark with lions and an animal playing a fiddle., Mark with the Glossa ordinaria and interlinear glosses; preceded by a table of' capitula sive distinctiones', beginning 'De Iohanne baptista' (ff. 2 r-v), and by the prologue 'Marcus evangelista Dei' (ff. 3-4v), imperfect at the end (the last leaf has been cut out)

II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Inhabited initial England

• Decorated initial 'D'(e), at the beginning of book 11 of the commentary on Malachi of Gervase of Chichester., Commentary on Malachi and Homilies

the library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8181).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial Gervase of Chichester England

• Inhabited initial 'P'(lures) in outline drawing, at the beginning of the Gospel Prologue, with a man fighting with a dragon., Gospels

England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Inhabited initial England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)

• Historiated initial 'L' (incipit unfinished) of a devil urging a monk to gluttony, with a portrait of Matthew below, a naked man pointing his mouth and a man with a head of an ox, at the beginning of a prologue to Matthew, with the instruction 'non scribatur' (not to be written) in the space above the opening of the prologue., Gospels

of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Matthew England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)

• Decorated initial 'H'(ic est), with an instruction for display script., Gospels

England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)

• Historiated initial 'I'(n principio) with the Lamb with cross, a bird, and a dragon in medallions, at the beginning of John., Gospels

Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Lamb of God England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)

• Records of the revenues of the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury., Gospels

of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Notes England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)

• Zoomorphic initial 'A'(monius) formed of dragons, with display script, at the beginning of the epistle of Eusebius to Carpianus., Gospels

England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Zoomorphic initial England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)

• Initial 'M'(atheus) of the archangel Michael killing a dragon, at the beginning of an 'argumentum' to Matthew., Gospels

of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Michael England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)

• Inhabited initial 'L'(iber) with a dog, at the beginning of Matthew., Gospels

of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Dog England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)

• Inhabited initial 'I'(nicium) with a horse, a dragon, and a lion, at the beginning of the prologue to Mark., Gospels

England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Inhabited initial England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)

• Zoomorphic initial 'Q'(uoniam) in outline drawing, at the beginning of Luke., Gospels

England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Zoomorphic initial England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'P'(lures) in outline drawing, at the beginning of the Gospel Prologue, with a man fighting with a dragon., Gospels

England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Inhabited initial England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)

• Detail of an historiated initial 'L' (incipit unfinished) of a devil urging a monk to gluttony, with a portrait of Matthew below, a naked man pointing his mouth and a man with a head of an ox, at the beginning of a prologue to Matthew, with the instruction 'non scribatur' (not to be written) in the space above the opening of the prologue., Gospels

of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Matthew England, S. E. England, S. E. (Canterbury)