• Historiated initial 'E'(dwardus) with king Edward I at the beginning of the Magna Carta., Vetera Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), including the Magna Carta, etc., imperfect

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Puzzle initial 'S'(i consid[er]arem) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the text., Libellus de jure civili, imperfect

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former: in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Text page., Various texts relating to Scottish history, including the Chronicles of the Picts and Scots (index Scotichronicon)

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Puzzle initial 'P'(ost) and pen-flourished initials at the beginning of the Lex gloriosi Anglorum Regis Edwardi Confessoris., Various legal texts including the Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus Regni Angliae

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Decorated initial 'A'(bsolucio) with pen-flourishing including foliate motifs at the beginning of the alphabetical index., 'Veritas theologie', a theological treatise

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Puzzle initial 'H'(enricus)., Various legal texts, including Statutes of England (index Statute book, Statuta Angliae)

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• ~Bas-de-page~ of the Nativity, with a Dominican friar kneeling in the foreground and the Shepherds in the background (middle miniature)., Cutting from a Dominican manuscript

a Dominican friar kneeling in the foreground and the Shepherds in the background. Cutting from a Dominican manuscript ?A Dominican church, possibly San Domenico in Bologna: kneeling Dominican friars in the present cutting and those formerly in the Holford Collection

• Puzzle initial 'V'(erba) at the beginning of Ecclesiastes., Bible (from Proverbs to the first Book of Maccabees), imperfect at the end

at the end Henry Jefferey: inscribed in the 17th century, 'Hennrye Jefferey xxx^s^' (f. 1).John Batteley (b. c.1646, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary; bought in 1723 through his nephew, John Batteley, by Edward Harley, along with other

• Text page of manumissions in Latin., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

St Petroc, Bodmin by the end of the 10th century: records of public manumissions at the high altar of the church were added in Anglo-Saxon minuscule in the 2nd half of the 10th and the 11th centuries. They include the

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a bishop celebrating mass inside a church., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

a bishop celebrating mass inside a church. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous corrections.Part II: the Calendarium illuminated and added

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a bishop by a church, along with the Virgin Mary and an angel., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

of a bishop by a church, along with the Virgin Mary and an angel. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of the Virgin Mary and an angel leading a monk into church., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

Mary and an angel leading a monk into church. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous corrections.Part II: the Calendarium illuminated

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of the Virgin Mary leading a bishop and woman away from a church., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

Mary leading a bishop and woman away from a church. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous corrections.Part II: the Calendarium

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two men beating another near a church., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

two men beating another near a church. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous corrections.Part II: the Calendarium illuminated and added

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of two monks, one in the doorway of a church., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

monks, one in the doorway of a church. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with the decoration left unfinished.Catchwords and bifolium signatures; numerous corrections.Part II: the Calendarium illuminated and

• Detail of a miniature of an abbot and three monks in a church, with a foliate initial 'Q'(uidam), at the beginning of causa 16., Decretum, with the Glossa ordinaria

abbot and three monks in a church, with a foliate initial 'Q'(uidam), at the beginning of causa 16. Illuminated by the artist of Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 830, a Missal for Paris use, and Giessen, Universitatsbibliothek 945, Justinian's Codex in French,

• Detail of a miniature of clerics before a bishop and an altar, illustrating the clerics asking permission to leave their church or canon community and move to a monastery, at the beginning of causa 19., Decretum, with the Glossa ordinaria

an altar, illustrating the clerics asking permission to leave their church or canon community and move to a monastery, at the beginning of causa 19. Illuminated by the artist of Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 830, a Missal for Paris use, and

• Text page with an initial 'N'(ovum), at the beginning of the Epistle of Jerome to Damasus., Gospel Book

Cathedral, but no certain evidence supports this hypothesis (see discussion Keynes 1985). Humphrey Wanley suggested that it belonged to Christ Church, Canterbury (see 'Antiquæ literaturæ Septentrionalis liber alter', in George Hickes ~Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archæologicus~, 2 vols

• Text page., Gospel Book

Cathedral, but no certain evidence supports this hypothesis (see discussion Keynes 1985). Humphrey Wanley suggested that it belonged to Christ Church, Canterbury (see 'Antiquæ literaturæ Septentrionalis liber alter', in George Hickes ~Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archæologicus~, 2 vols

• Text page., Gospel Book

Cathedral, but no certain evidence supports this hypothesis (see discussion Keynes 1985). Humphrey Wanley suggested that it belonged to Christ Church, Canterbury (see 'Antiquæ literaturæ Septentrionalis liber alter', in George Hickes ~Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archæologicus~, 2 vols