• Capitals and initials with colour wash at the end of Mark and the beginning of Luke., Extracts from the Gospels and prayers ('The Book of Nunnaminster')

feminine word endings. The Benedictine nunnery of St. Mary's, Nunnaminster, Winchester, founded by Ealhswith: late 9th- or 10th-century inscriptions in English, including of the land boundaries of the nunnery (f. 40v). Added early 10th-century prayers, with feminine endings (f. 41).

• Coloured initials with the hymns for vespers on the day for the commemoration of the birth of Cuthbert. The words of the songs are written in black, while the terms identifying them (such as 'a' for 'antiphon', 'pt' for 'psalm' or 'responsory') are written in red. Above each line, the music is written in Breton neumes., Lives of Cuthbert in prose (ff. 2-42v) and verse (ff. 45-62v), with services for Cuthbert, Benedict and Guthlac with musical notation (ff. 43-44; 63-66)

acanthus foliage.Musical notation: Breton neumes, England (Christ Church – Canterbury ?), 11th century (ff. 43-44; 63-66v).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

• Coloured initial 'I' in the will of King Alfred the Great in Anglo-Saxon, which contains material relating to the foundations of Winchester, and is the earliest English royal will (See ~The Making of England~ 1991)., Liber Vitae of Newminster and Hyde, with register, charters, customs, the will of Alfred the Great, benedictions and order of Mass, etc.

which contains material relating to the foundations of Winchester, and is the earliest English royal will (See ~The Making of England~ 1991). According to Wormald 1963, the manuscript was almost certainly kept on the high altar.This manuscript was formerly Stowe

• Coloured initial 'I' in the will of King Alfred the Great in Anglo-Saxon, which contains material relating to the foundations of Winchester, and is the earliest English royal will (See ~The Making of England~ 1991)., Liber Vitae of Newminster and Hyde, with register, charters, customs, the will of Alfred the Great, benedictions and order of Mass, etc.

which contains material relating to the foundations of Winchester, and is the earliest English royal will (See ~The Making of England~ 1991). According to Wormald 1963, the manuscript was almost certainly kept on the high altar.This manuscript was formerly Stowe

• Drawing of God over the circle of the world with two long trumpets issuing from his mouth (the breath of God), holding a scale, and the Holy Spirit over the waters, enclosed within a hemisphere, at the beginning of Genesis.

library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no . 7723).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Creation Canterbury England (Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Initial 'L'(iber) with interlace decoration and display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, and four medallions with saints holding books and a cross (Evangelists?), at the beginning of Matthew. The name of the manuscript's owner, Lord Lumley, is inscribed in the lower margin., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

collection became part of the Royal Library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Incipit page Eadwig [Eadui] Basan (fl. c.1020) (added confirmation of privileges) Eadui Basan Canterbury, Christ Church England,

• A charter of Cnut, in Anglo-Saxon (promulgated probably c. 1017, when Cnut became king of all England), addressed to Archbishop Lyfing (1013-1020), Godwin, bishop of Rochester, Ælmær, abbot of St Augustine's, Canterbury (1006-1022), and others, confirming the privileges of the church., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

collection became part of the Royal Library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Charter of Cnut Eadwig [Eadui] Basan (fl. c.1020) (added confirmation of privileges) Eadui Basan Canterbury, Christ Church

• Historiated initial 'T'(his) of Henry VII giving the manuscript to a group of monks, with full bar border with the arms of England., Quadripartite Indenture for Henry VII's Chapel

the Westminster palace after the dissolution of the monastery in 1540. Stored in the little study next to the king's old bed chamber: listed as 'Item a booke of Kynge Henry the viith his foundacion of his chappell at Westminster'

• Detail of an historiated initial 'T'(his) of Henry VII giving the manuscript to a group of monks, with full bar border with the arms of England., Quadripartite Indenture for Henry VII's Chapel

the Westminster palace after the dissolution of the monastery in 1540. Stored in the little study next to the king's old bed chamber: listed as 'Item a booke of Kynge Henry the viith his foundacion of his chappell at Westminster'

• Detail of a drawing of God over the circle of the world with two long trumpets issuing from his mouth (the breath of God), holding a scale, and the Holy Spirit over the waters, enclosed within a hemisphere, at the beginning of Genesis.

library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no . 7723).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Creation Canterbury England (Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Coloured initials 'I'(ncipit) and 'S' (acre) in an account of the building of the old abbey in Winchester from its intended establishment by Alfred the Great to its consecration by Dunstan., Liber Vitae of Newminster and Hyde, with register, charters, customs, the will of Alfred the Great, benedictions and order of Mass, etc.

an account of the building of the old abbey in Winchester from its intended establishment by Alfred the Great to its consecration by Dunstan. According to Wormald 1963, the manuscript was almost certainly kept on the high altar.This manuscript was

• Coloured initial 'D'(ominus) with display script., Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses

de vitiis et peccatis' (ff. 100v-106), with continuous interlinear gloss in Old English.Numerous margins excised. Large initials in red and green. Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with OldEnglish glosses The Benedictine priory of Holy Trinity, or Christ Church,

• Coloured initial 'D'(ominus) with display script, at the beginning of the Liber scintillarum., Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses

de vitiis et peccatis' (ff. 100v-106), with continuous interlinear gloss in Old English.Numerous margins excised. Large initials in red and green. Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with OldEnglish glosses The Benedictine priory of Holy Trinity, or Christ Church,

• Initial 'D' with zoomorphic and interlace decoration., De laudibus virginitatis, letter to Ehfrid (index: Heahfridum), both with interlinear and marginal glosses

(see Warner and Gilson, 1921).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps included in the catalogue of 1666 (see Carley, 2000).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated intial

• Initial 'E' with penwork decoration., De laudibus virginitatis, letter to Ehfrid (index: Heahfridum), both with interlinear and marginal glosses

(see Warner and Gilson, 1921).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps included in the catalogue of 1666 (see Carley, 2000).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Initial and

• Zoomorphic initial 'Q'(uod) containing two addorsed griffins, with dragon's feet and tail and foliate decoration., Glossed Matthew with prologue

of Rochester [1215-1226]: the manuscript was perhaps donated before his appointment as bishop and the inscription added subsequently.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no.546 '; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• Detail of a zoomorphic initial 'Q'(uod) containing two addorsed griffins, with dragon's feet and tail and foliate decoration., Glossed Matthew with prologue

of Rochester [1215-1226]: the manuscript was perhaps donated before his appointment as bishop and the inscription added subsequently.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no.546 '; included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library

• Text page of of the 'De Genesi ad litteram' of Augustine., De Genesi ad litteram

I, B VI, D V, 8 D XVI, Vide 5 B XII et IV', 16th-17th century (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 59' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Decorated initial 'E'(vangelium) with dragons and a human mask, at the beginning of sermons of Augustine., Sermones de verbis Domini et apostoli

sit liber iste, q[uod] W[ybarn]', c. 1467 (see a dated inscription in Royal 2 C I) (f. 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 809' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the

• Coloured initial 'I'(ncipiunt) at the beginning of the list of capitula, with the ownership inscription of the cathedral priory of St. Andrew, Rochester, reading 'Liber de claust[r]o Roffens[i].', Sermones de verbis Domini et apostoli

sit liber iste, q[uod] W[ybarn]', c. 1467 (see a dated inscription in Royal 2 C I) (f. 250).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 809' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the