• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul, at the beginning of Philemon, and an illuminated initial 'P'(aulus), at the beginning of Peter Lombard's commentary on Philemon., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7732, 7734, 7782, or 7980.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard England

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul, at the beginning of Peter Lombard's commentary on 1 Timothy., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7732, 7734, 7782, or 7980.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard England

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul, at the beginning of 2 Thessalonians, and an illuminated initial 'P'(aulus) at the beginning of Peter Lombard's commentary on 2 Thessalonians., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7732, 7734, 7782, or 7980.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard England

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul, at the beginning of 1 Thessalonians, and an illuminated initial 'P'(aulus) at the beginning of Peter Lombard's commentary on 1 Thessalonians., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7732, 7734, 7782, or 7980.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard England

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul, at the beginning of Peter Lombard's commentary on Colossians, and an illuminated initial 'P'(aulus) at the beginning of Colossians., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7732, 7734, 7782, or 7980.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard England

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul holding a scroll, at the beginning of Peter Lombard's commentary on Philippians, and an illuminated initial 'P'(aulus) at the beginning of Philippians., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7732, 7734, 7782, or 7980.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard England

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul, at the beginning of Corinthians, and an illuminated initial 'P'(aulus) at the beginning of Peter Lombard's commentary on Corinthians., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7732, 7734, 7782, or 7980.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard England

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul, at the beginning of Peter Lombard's commentary on Romans, and an illuminated initial 'P'(aulus) at the beginning of Romans., Gloss on the Pauline Epistles

of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7732, 7734, 7782, or 7980.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard England

• Decorated initial 'T'(enetis) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the twenty-seventh sermon., Sermones super Cantica canticorum

Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7867.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial Bernard of Clairvaux France England or France

• Framed zoomorphic initial 'V'(obis) with display script at the beginning of the first sermon., Sermones super Cantica canticorum

Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7867.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Zoomorphic initial Bernard of Clairvaux France England or France

• Large initial 'P'(utamus) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the seventeenth sermon., Sermones super Cantica canticorum

Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7867.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Large initial Bernard of Clairvaux France England or France

• Large puzzle initial 'F'(ulcite) with pen-flourished partial border at the beginning of the fifty-first sermon., Sermones super Cantica canticorum

Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 7867.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Puzzle initial Bernard of Clairvaux France England or France

• Decorated initials, including with a hand blessing., Evangelistarium, imperfect, beginning in the Gospel for the 5th day of the 5th week of John, and ending in the menology at the 6th January.

columns, and containing portions of the 'Orations'; a third (f. 132) is a manuscript of the Septuagint version of the Old Testament, containing part of Daniel 3; and the rest are from a theological work, most of which is wholly

• Decorated headpiece and initial., Evangelistarium, imperfect, beginning in the Gospel for the 5th day of the 5th week of John, and ending in the menology at the 6th January.

columns, and containing portions of the 'Orations'; a third (f. 132) is a manuscript of the Septuagint version of the Old Testament, containing part of Daniel 3; and the rest are from a theological work, most of which is wholly

• Decorated initial 'M'(ulto), with a guide letter in the margin, at the beginning of the prologue to Commentary on Lamentations addressed to Odilmannus Severus., Commentary on Lamentations

England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial Paschasius Radbertus England, S. England, S. (Reading)

• Historiated initial 'P'(aulus) of Paul and heads of five men, at the beginning of the commentary to 1 Corinthians., Commentary on the Pauline Epistles

catalogue of the library of St James's Palace (see ~Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae~ (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 7980?).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Paul Peter Lombard England

• Miniature of Claude de France, accompanied by women of the Old Testament, and decorated initial 'T'(outes), in Le Sacre de Claude de France., Le Sacre de Claude de France

accompanied by women of the Old Testament, and decorated initial 'T'(outes), in Le Sacre de Claude de France. On Jean Coene IV see gnerally Eberhard König, ~Boccaccio und Petrarca in Paris~, Leuchtendes Mittelalter Neue Folge, (Passau: Passavia, 1997- ), I

• Coloured initial 'H'(er ys godspelles) in green with penwork decoration in red, with ownership inscriptions of Thomas Cranmer (Thomas Cantuarien[sis]) and John Lumley., West Saxon Gospels (the 'Wessex Gospels')

prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Coloured initial England, W.

• Coloured initial 'N'(u) in red with green penwork decoration., West Saxon Gospels (the 'Wessex Gospels')

prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Coloured initial England, W.

• Blank frame for a miniature, with the hindquarters of a horse on the left., Prose Life of Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of the English Church and People)

miniatures, was produced at Durham around the same time and is Cambridge, Trinity College MS O.1.64.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