• Historiated initial of the Nativity., Missal, use of Paris

with white silk. Medieval quire signatures, at the end of quires 'Corr.^c^' for correctus. 2 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the Canon of the mass (ff. 145v, 146). 15 large historiated initials with partial foliate

• Historiated initial of the Adoration of the Magi., Missal, use of Paris

initial protected with white silk. Medieval quire signatures, at the end of quires 'Corr.^c^' for correctus. 2 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the Canon of the mass (ff. 145v, 146). 15 large historiated initials with

• Historiated intial of Peter in chains between two soldiers., Missal, use of Paris

initial protected with white silk. Medieval quire signatures, at the end of quires 'Corr.^c^' for correctus. 2 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the Canon of the mass (ff. 145v, 146). 15 large historiated initials with

• Historiated initial of a monk praying before an altar., Missal, use of Paris

initial protected with white silk. Medieval quire signatures, at the end of quires 'Corr.^c^' for correctus. 2 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the Canon of the mass (ff. 145v, 146). 15 large historiated initials with

• Historiated initial of the Resurrection., Missal, use of Paris

with white silk. Medieval quire signatures, at the end of quires 'Corr.^c^' for correctus. 2 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the Canon of the mass (ff. 145v, 146). 15 large historiated initials with partial foliate

• Detail of a historiated initial of Pentecost., Missal, use of Paris

protected with white silk. Medieval quire signatures, at the end of quires 'Corr.^c^' for correctus. 2 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the Canon of the mass (ff. 145v, 146). 15 large historiated initials with partial

• Detail of historiated initial of the Trinity., Missal, use of Paris

protected with white silk. Medieval quire signatures, at the end of quires 'Corr.^c^' for correctus. 2 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the Canon of the mass (ff. 145v, 146). 15 large historiated initials with partial

• Historiated initial 'D'(ominus) with Andrew., Missal, use of Paris

with white silk. Medieval quire signatures, at the end of quires 'Corr.^c^' for correctus. 2 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the Canon of the mass (ff. 145v, 146). 15 large historiated initials with partial foliate

• Detail of historiated initial of the Presentation., Missal, use of Paris

protected with white silk. Medieval quire signatures, at the end of quires 'Corr.^c^' for correctus. 2 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the Canon of the mass (ff. 145v, 146). 15 large historiated initials with partial

• Historiated initial of the Presentation., Missal, use of Paris

with white silk. Medieval quire signatures, at the end of quires 'Corr.^c^' for correctus. 2 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the Canon of the mass (ff. 145v, 146). 15 large historiated initials with partial foliate

• Text page at the beginning of Abbo of St-Germain's ~Bella Parisiacae urbis~, book 3, with red initial and highlights., Alcuin, De orthographia (ff.1-24v); Bede, De orthographia (ff. 24v-71); Bella Parisiacae urbis, book 3 (Ad clericos) (ff. 71v-84); unidentified smaller text with glossary material (ff. 84-86v); De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 4 (De arte dialectica) (f. 87-149); Glossaries to Greek and Latin grammar texts, including lists of grammatical and metrical terms and glosses to Juvenal (ff. 150-167v).

marks between ff. 1-71v; corrections and erasures between ff. 150-159. Folio 93v is blank. Marked change in parchment quality in quires xx-xxii. Two Latin-Old English glosses on f. 166. Bishop proposes that the scribe of Harley 3826 reappears in Lincoln,

• Zoomorphic initial 'C'(onsummatis) with two hybrids and foliate motifs, at the beginning of the 8th of John Cassian's Collationes; three smaller initials 'G'(ermanus), 'S'(erenus) and 'D'(e) with penwork decoration; simple initials in the list of chapters., Collationes of the Fathers (ff. 1v-115); Rite for the consecration of bells (ff. 115v-116).

(a1-a4, b1-b4 etc.); quire marks (in centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires). 2 large zoomorphic initials with winged dragons, outlined in red, on green and blue grounds, with foliate motifs (ff.

• 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

228v). Line-fillers in gold, blue and red ink (some with fish or snake). Sketched peacock in margin (f. 249). Psalter-Hours Quires have been numbered in a post-medieval hand.The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• Decorated initial 'M'(undus) with reserved designs and penwork decoration, at the beginning of the 7th tract of Augustine's 'In epistulam Johannis ad Parthos tractatus X'., Enchiridion (ff. 2-47); In epistulam Johannis ad Parthos tractatus X (ff. 47-121v)

Decorated initial 'M'(undus) with reserved designs and penwork decoration, at the beginning of the 7th tract of Augustine's 'In epistulam Johannis ad Parthos tractatus X'. ae caudatas; quire mark (in the centre of the lower margin of f. 9v)

• Initials 'R'(es) and 'A'(nno) with penwork decoration, at the beginning of William of Malmesbury's 'Gesta regum Anglorum'., Gesta regum Anglorum (ff. 4-103v); Gesta pontificum Anglorum (ff. 108-167); Henry of Sawtrey's De purgatorio S. Patricii (ff. 167v-175)

sets of quire marks (in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires) for ff. 4-108 ('i'-'xiii') and ff. 108-155 ('i'-'vi'); catchwords.Perhaps the exemplar for Harley 528 (see Watson 1966, p. 331

• Decorated initial 'A'(rchidiaconus) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of 'De officio archidiaconi et eius visitacione tractatus'., Constitutiones of bishop Peter Quivil (index Peter Quinil) at the 1287 Exeter Synod (ff. 4-48v), 'Summula Sinodi' (ff. 49-58v), 'De officio archidiaconi et eius visitacione tractatus' (ff. 59-70), 'Constitutio de pastore in viduatam ecclesiam (ff. 70v-71)

and 77 are former pastedowns. ff. 71v-[73a] are ruled leaves originally unwritten. ff. 1-3v and ff. 74-77 are medieval parchment quires with later additions. Catchwords written horizontally. Leaf signatures. Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in red

• Centre section of the folios showing marginal notes., Ab Urbe condita (index Codex Aginnensis)

The manuscript contains the rare fourth Decade as well as unusual textual variants. It is missing its initial and final quires; 'instead of the whole of the first, third and fourth Decade, it only gives the text of the Ab

• Miniature of the Crucifixion, with the sun and moon overhead, and the Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist below., Missal, use of Paris

Evangelist below. The first historiated initial protected with white silk. Medieval quire signatures, at the end of quires 'Corr.^c^' for correctus. 2 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the Canon of the mass (ff. 145v, 146).

• Miniature of God enthroned, surrounded by symbols of the four evangelists., Missal, use of Paris

historiated initial protected with white silk. Medieval quire signatures, at the end of quires 'Corr.^c^' for correctus. 2 full-page miniatures, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the Canon of the mass (ff. 145v, 146). 15 large historiated initials

• Foliate initial 'C'(umque) at the beginning of the prologue., Genesis and Exodus, with the Glossa ordinaria

V, and 4 E VI, but not executed in the same workshop.Catchwords and corrector's signatures 'cor' at the end of quires, bifolium signatures. 2 historiated initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of each book (ff. 4, 125v). Foliate