• Detail of an historiated initial 'A'(postate) of a tonsured ex-cleric, armed with a sword and a shield and his black habit on the ground, facing an abbot., Omne Bonum (Absolucio-Circumcisio)

armed with a sword and a shield and his black habit on the ground, facing an abbot. The only known, and probably autograph copy of the Omne Bonum of James le Palmer, being a general encyclopaedia arranged in alphabetical order.

• Puzzle initial 'A(nno), with penwork decoration in the form of leaves., Polychronicon to the year 1352, with table

with penwork decoration in the form of leaves. Puzzle initials in red and blue with red and blue penwork decoration extending into the margin. Large initials in blue or red with penwork decoration, often extendinig into the margins, and in

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) with king David playing the harp, at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter, followed by Canticles, Litany, and Office of the Dead, adapted to the use of Ely

in gold on red and blue grounds, 1 accompanied by a three-sided border added in the 14th century (f. 2). Small initials in red with blue (and red) pen-flourishing or in blue with red (and blue) pen-flourishing, some decorated with

• Historiated initial 'D'(omine) with a nun/abbess in prayer, at the beginning of Psalm 101., Psalter, followed by Canticles, Litany, and Office of the Dead, adapted to the use of Ely

in gold on red and blue grounds, 1 accompanied by a three-sided border added in the 14th century (f. 2). Small initials in red with blue (and red) pen-flourishing or in blue with red (and blue) pen-flourishing, some decorated with

• Puzzle initial 'A'(ppellationibus), in Bartolus de Saxoferrato's Commentary on the first and second part of the New Digest., Commentary on the first and second part of the Digestum novum

blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red (ff. 1, 55, 140, 299). Smaller and small initials in red with blue penwork decoration or pen-flourishing or in blue with red penwork decoration or pen-flourishing. Paraph marks in plain red or

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

with historiated initial D depicting the Virgin with child Christ. Virgin in blue with a red throne on a gold filigree ground. Bar-frame border with burgundy and blue vine and a gold bar. Interlace at the corner with a cluster

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

infill of blue penwork. Along the top and left margins are two faint blue lines extending from the capital across the folio and flanked either side by red, and blue penwork motifs forming a two-sided border. A blue trefoil leaf

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Blue initials vary from three to eight lines. Catchwords with a blue paraph mark, one boxed in red. Running titles marked by a blue paraph. Rubrics and Latin quotations boxed in brown but ff. 58r-75v boxed in red, and

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

hand. First initial: four-line red Lombardic h with blue patterns, infill of self colour flowers with outlines in blue and boxed in red. Two-line Lombardic red capitals with blue decoration. Red and blue one-line Lombardic capitals. Catchwords in black scrolls

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

initial page - four-line initial E in blue and red with red penwork and a four-sided border made of red and blue decoration. Seven-line blue initials with red and blue penwork. Three-line blue initials with red penwork decoration. Four-line lombardic