• Text pages., 'Vitae' (f. 1v), 'De consolatione philosophiae', Books 1-5, with glosses (ff. 2v-110v), 'Opuscula sacra', Books 1-4, imperfect, with glosses (ff. 113v-149v)

Text pages. The manuscript also includes:Two lives of Boethius (ff. 1v, 1v-2);Two commentaries to 'De consolatione philosophiae', Book 3 (ff. 47-61v);List of Byzantine offices (f. 111);Eugenius of Toledo, 'Hexaëmeron' (f. 111);Added notated Greek Cherubic Hymn or 'Cheroubikon' in a

• Text page., 'Vitae' (f. 1v), 'De consolatione philosophiae', Books 1-5, with glosses (ff. 2v-110v), 'Opuscula sacra', Books 1-4, imperfect, with glosses (ff. 113v-149v)

Text page. The manuscript also includes:Two lives of Boethius (ff. 1v, 1v-2);Two commentaries to 'De consolatione philosophiae', Book 3 (ff. 47-61v);List of Byzantine offices (f. 111);Eugenius of Toledo, 'Hexaëmeron' (f. 111);Added notated Greek Cherubic Hymn or 'Cheroubikon' in a

• Text page., 'Vitae' (f. 1v), 'De consolatione philosophiae', Books 1-5, with glosses (ff. 2v-110v), 'Opuscula sacra', Books 1-4, imperfect, with glosses (ff. 113v-149v)

Text page. The manuscript also includes:Two lives of Boethius (ff. 1v, 1v-2);Two commentaries to 'De consolatione philosophiae', Book 3 (ff. 47-61v);List of Byzantine offices (f. 111);Eugenius of Toledo, 'Hexaëmeron' (f. 111);Added notated Greek Cherubic Hymn or 'Cheroubikon' in a

• Decorated initial 'D'(ixit) combined with a full foliate bar border including interlace at the beginning of Psalm 38., Psalter, imperfect

is blank and ruled. Large initials in colours and gold combined with a full foliate bar border including interlace (Psalm 1 (f. 8), Psalm 26 (f. 39v), Psalm 38 (f. 59), Psalm 52 (f. 78), Psalm 80 (f. 118v), Psalm

• Coloured initial 'P'(rimus) at the beginning of notes on the compotus, and below, an added list of the archbishops of Canterbury., Treatise on the compotus, 'Ratio Gai cesaris de ordine anni', instructions for the discovery of the age of the moon, a table of moveable feasts, and other texts

'51' (f. 1).John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609), mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary: his 'Jupiter' sign (top righthand corner of f. 1); his annotations (ff. 60v-61). William Cecil (b. 1520/21, d. 1598), 1st Baron Burghley, royal minister; his sale, 21 November

• Initial incorporating further letters ('Si virtutum') with knotwork and foliate motifs, followed by display script, at the beginning of Ambrose's 'De poenitentia'. In the outer margin, an ownership inscription of the late 12th or early 13th century in a decorated triangular frame with a mask. The same or a near contemporary hand also added the rubric to the text. In the margin are also notes in the hand of Heinrich Schupp, abbot of the Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary and St Nicholas in Arnstein in the 16th century., De officiis ministrorum; Sermo de resurrectione domini; De poenitentia

initials. Rubrics in red. De officiis ministrorum; Sermo de resurrectione domini; De poenitentia Parts 1 and 2 were together by the 12th century: in part 1, the scribe/illuminator of part 2 added red initials/letters (ff. 66v, 131v), replaced some text

• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(eptemtrionalis) of a dragon., Historia Langobardorum, in six books, each preceded by a table of contents, added hymn on the preservation of St. Bertin's abbey at St. Omer from destruction by fire (ff. 71v-72) (index Historia Longobardorum)

dragon. Ruled in hardpoint.ff. i*, 1, 73 are parchment flyleaves.Incipit: 'Septemtrionalis plaga'. The scribe is like, if not the same, as the scribe of Royal 13 A XXIII.Added on ff. 71v-72, in a smaller contemporary hand, is a hymn on

• Coloured initials., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Coloured initials in the litany., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Historiated initial with squatting atlantis holding the initial with a woman emerging from her coffin, and in the lower margin a quire signature., Dialogues

parchment flyleaf. 2 miniatures of standing figures in brown ink with orange, one on a green ground (ff. 18v, 61). 1 large historiated initial in brown ink, with green and orange (f. 2). 3 small historiated initials in red or

• Historiated initial 'Q' with a standing saint holding a book., Dialogues

parchment flyleaf. 2 miniatures of standing figures in brown ink with orange, one on a green ground (ff. 18v, 61). 1 large historiated initial in brown ink, with green and orange (f. 2). 3 small historiated initials in red or

• null, Dialogues

flyleaf. 2 miniatures of standing figures in brown ink with orange, one on a green ground (ff. 18v, 61). 1 large historiated initial in brown ink, with green and orange (f. 2). 3 small historiated initials in red or brown

• Coloured initials, and added 12th-century decorated initial 'B'(eatus), at the beginning of the Psalter., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Coloured initials and musical notation of Anglo-Saxon neumes at the beginning of Psalm 50., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Text page with coloured initials., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Calendar page for February, with coloured letters., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Calendar page for April, with coloured letters., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Text page with coloured initials., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Title and initial in display capitals at the beginning of Cicero 'Orationes in Catilinam'., Works, including 'Epistolae ad Familiares' (ff. 1v-51v), 'Philippics' (index Philippicae) (ff. 71-113), 'Ciceronis in Sallustium et invicem invectivae' (ff. 113-114v), 'Orationes in Catilinam' (ff. 115-125v), 'In Verrem actio II' (ff. 159v-164v), and 'De officiis' (ff. 164v-180')

the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘20 die mensis Octobris, A.D. 1725’ (f. 1); inscribed 'Oxford B.H.' (f. 1). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during

• Drawing of a head in ink, perhaps an author portrait, or a portrait of Gregory or Augustine of Canterbury, who are mentioned in the hymn above., 2 noted Easter hymns, prayers, part of the Office of Augustine of Canterbury: 'Chorus nove Hierusalem' (f. 1) and 'Te lucis auctor' (f. 1v); rhymed Office for Augustine of Canterbury (ff. 67-68v erased, 68v-69); Hymn to Gregory the Great (f. 69v)

(f . 69v). 2 noted Easter hymns, prayers, part of the Office of Augustine of Canterbury: 'Chorus nove Hierusalem' (f. 1) and 'Te lucis auctor' (f. 1v); rhymed Office for Augustine of Canterbury (ff. 67-68v erased, 68v-69); Hymn to Gregory