• Zoomorphic initial 'P'., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

his collection, no. 399 (see ~The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609~, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956)); passed to Henry, prince of Wales.Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child

• null, Tactica theoria, with the dedicatory preface

Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7951 (‘Ordinum Militarium Distributio, Graece’): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12858, bought by Marsh for £2 17s.Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F.S.A.: his

• null, Tactica theoria, with the dedicatory preface

Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7951 (‘Ordinum Militarium Distributio, Graece’): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12858, bought by Marsh for £2 17s.Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F.S.A.: his

• null, Tactica theoria, with the dedicatory preface

Iacobo Morelli, ~Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti~, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7951 (‘Ordinum Militarium Distributio, Graece’): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12858, bought by Marsh for £2 17s.Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F.S.A.: his

• Historiated initial 'Q'([uonia]m) of Christ in Majesty in the bowl, with display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, at the beginning of Luke., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Text page., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Text page., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Historiated initial 'Q'([uonia]m) of Christ in Majesty in the bowl, with display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, at the beginning of Luke, with a sketch of a leaf in the lower margin., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Detail of a note, in Anglo-Saxon, of the admission of Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, of Denmark, and of Norway, and his brother Harold into the confraternity, probably of Christ Church, Canterbury, certified by the names of brothers Ðorð, Kartoca, and Thuri., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Inhabited initial 'B'(eatissimo), with animals and grotesques, at the beginning of the Life of St. Gregory., Life of St Gregory

manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~, 3 vols. (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6423.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and

• Detail of a medallion of a saint holding a book and a cross, within a 'Winchester style' border, at the beginning of the Gospel of John., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Detail of a medallion of a saint holding a book and a cross, within a 'Winchester style' border, at the beginning of the Gospel of John., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'I'(n principio) with display script in gold, at the beginning of the Gospel of John., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Detail of a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, at the beginning of the Gospel of John., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Initial 'I'(nitium) with interlace decoration and display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' foliate border with two medallions with saints holding books (Evangelists?), at the beginning of Mark., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Note, in Anglo-Saxon, of the admission of Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, of Denmark, and of Norway, and his brother Harold into the confraternity, probably of Christ Church, Canterbury, certified by the names of brothers Ðorð, Kartoca, and Thuri., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Initial 'I'(n principio) with display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, and two medallions with saints holding books and a cross (Evangelists?), at the beginning of the Gospel of John., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

altera parte excavatum: vide i A. xviii'), according to David Casley (~A catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library~ (London: 1735), see also Warner and Gilson 1921, p. 17).Includes the full set of Franco-Saxon prologues and prefaces to individual

• Coloured initials., Fragment from a Missal, on parchment, which was possibly a gift of bishop Leofric according to unpublished notes of Michael Gullick

unpublished notes): other fragments from the same manuscript can be found in Add. 62104, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. Liturg. e.38; London, Westminster Abbey, 36/17-19, and two flyleaves in Lincoln, Cathedral, V.5.11 (see Rankin 1984, Ker and Watson 1987, Gameson 1996).

• Coloured initials., Fragment from a text with extracts from Luke and Matthew, possibly a Lectionary, on parchment

unpublished notes): other fragments from the same manuscript can be found in Add. 62104, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. Liturg. e.38; London, Westminster Abbey, 36/17-19, and two flyleaves in Lincoln, Cathedral, V.5.11 (see Rankin 1984, Ker and Watson 1987, Gameson 1996).

• Initial 'P'(ost quam) with interlace decoration and clasps, and title in display capitals., Fragment from a Life of St Gertrud (?), on parchment

unpublished notes): other fragments from the same manuscript can be found in Add. 62104, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. Liturg. e.38; London, Westminster Abbey, 36/17-19, and two flyleaves in Lincoln, Cathedral, V.5.11 (see Rankin 1984, Ker and Watson 1987, Gameson 1996).