• Puzzle initial 'H'(enricus) with pen-flourishing extending into the margins including birds at the beginning of the foundation charter., Cartulary of Reading abbey, imperfect

the abbey's liberties, with red initials, late 13th century with later additions (ff. 4-15v; 205-247v). Numerous additions throughout and on quires added at the end regarding the abbey, often written in Gothic cursive, mid-13th to mid-15th century.Inscribed 'Clayton in S.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

cover. The first three quires have had their corners folded inwards creating a 'v' shaped fold (See Tschann and Parkes 1996, p. lv, fig. 2). On the fore edge of the first three leaves of these quires there is piercing