• Decorated initial 'S'(unt) at the beginning of the prologue to Augustine's De doctrina christiana., De doctrina christiana, De vera religione and Sermones de poenitentia (sermo 351); De poenitentibus (sermo 393)

Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 43' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; red seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 1); Patrick Young [Junius] (b. 1584, d. 1652), librarian:

• Symbols highlighted in green, in the chapter 'De notis sententiarum.', Etymologiae

Aug[us]tini Cant', 14th century (f. 1); included in the catalogue of the library of St. Augustine's abbey of between 1375-1420 transcribed in 1475-1497, no. 427.Old Royal Library: red seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 1); included in the 1698

• Text page with figures highlighted in green, in the chapter 3, 'De figuris'., Etymologiae

Aug[us]tini Cant', 14th century (f. 1); included in the catalogue of the library of St. Augustine's abbey of between 1375-1420 transcribed in 1475-1497, no. 427.Old Royal Library: red seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 1); included in the 1698

• Diagram of affinity., Etymologiae

Aug[us]tini Cant', 14th century (f. 1); included in the catalogue of the library of St. Augustine's abbey of between 1375-1420 transcribed in 1475-1497, no. 427.Old Royal Library: red seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 1); included in the 1698

• Diagram of a 'T-O' map of the inhabited world, showing the relative positions of the three continents., Etymologiae

Aug[us]tini Cant', 14th century (f. 1); included in the catalogue of the library of St. Augustine's abbey of between 1375-1420 transcribed in 1475-1497, no. 427.Old Royal Library: red seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 1); included in the 1698

• Diagram of the positions of the moon and drawings of the forms of the moon., Etymologiae

Aug[us]tini Cant', 14th century (f. 1); included in the catalogue of the library of St. Augustine's abbey of between 1375-1420 transcribed in 1475-1497, no. 427.Old Royal Library: red seal of a ship, 17th century (f. 1); included in the 1698

• Zoomorphic initial 'D' with a fish., Commentary on Isaiah, books XIV-XVIII

[(?) se]d de illo armario et qui me furaverit vel hoc folium inciserit [anathema] sit' (f. 1).Former shelf-mark(?) '141' (f. 1). Jean-Baptiste Joseph Barrois (b. 1784, d. 1855), French deputy and book collector (on whom see Hugh Collingham, 'Joseph Barrois:

• Ink drawing of a nimbed figure., Commentary on Isaiah, books XIV-XVIII

[(?) se]d de illo armario et qui me furaverit vel hoc folium inciserit [anathema] sit' (f. 1).Former shelf-mark(?) '141' (f. 1). Jean-Baptiste Joseph Barrois (b. 1784, d. 1855), French deputy and book collector (on whom see Hugh Collingham, 'Joseph Barrois:

• Puzzle initial 'S'(e)., Testament (ff. 1-33); Rossignol (ff. 34-38v)

and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red (ff. 1, 32, 33, 34). Small initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Testament (ff. 1-33); Rossignol (ff. 34-38v) Jean le Feron of Charleville, 16th century, priest

• Cutting of an initial 'A'(nno) at the beginning of Daniel, with penwork decoration., Fragment of a Bible with the beginning of the book of Daniel (recto) and part of the chapter list (verso)

67-76, and 82 were printed fragments and have been removed.Musical notation (e.g., ff. 18v, 38, 40, 77r-v, 78r-v, 80r-v, 83r-v). 1 large initial in green, blue, yellow, and red, with filigree penwork decoration (f. 44). Small initials in red, yellow,

• Decorated initial 'I'(n), preceded by a rubric in display script, at the prologue to the Augustine's 'De quantitate animae'; the pigment is oxidised., De quantitate animae

2 large decorated initials in red, silver and gold, including geometric and foliate motifs (ff. 1, 2). Display script in red, green and mauve (f. 1, 2). Geometric figures and frames for captions in margins in red. De quantitate animae

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uerit[us]) in green ink., Various poems including Laurence of Durham's Hypognosticon (ff. 8-113) and the Fall of Troy (ff. 114v-115v)

Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by his librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘15 Augusti 1725’ (f. 1). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime

• Illuminated initial 'I'(nter)., Observationum ex libris antiquorum

initial 'I'(nter). The initials on ff. 153v, 163 are unfinished and the underdrawings are visible. 1 historiated initial in colours and gold (damaged) (f. 1). 19 large initials in colours and gold (ff. 1v, 14v, 29, 39v, 48, 58, 65v,

• Coloured initials 'Q'(uomodo) and 'C'(um) at the beginning of the preface and prologue of Solinus's De mirabilibus mundi., Collectanea rerum memorabilium (index De mirabilibus mundi), preceded by a preface (f. 1) and prologue (f. 1r-1v)

mirabilibus mundi. Initials in plain red, partly oxidised (ff. 1, 9). Unfinished: spaces left for all other initials. Collectanea rerum memorabilium (index De mirabilibus mundi), preceded by a preface (f. 1) and prologue (f. 1r-1v) Signed by one of the

• Illuminated headpiece and initial 'Pi', both with foliate decoration at the beginning of Gregory of Nazianzus's sermon Or. 39., Sermons

colours and gold, with large decorated initials in colours, and usually also in gold, at the beginning of sermons (ff. 1, 3, 21, 26v, 36v, 44v, 54v, 62v, 71v, 119v, 130v, 163v, 168, 189v, 206v, 230v). Small simple initials in

• Illuminated headpiece with a foliate pattern and decorated initial 'E'(n) at the beginning of the Gospel of John., Four Gospels, each preceded by a table of capitula (index New Testament, Bible)

in red decorated with coloured foliate and geometric patterns, some also with gold (ff. 1v-6). Diagram in red ink (f. 1). 4 large headpieces in gold and colours with foliate decoration (ff. 8, 64, 99, 157) at the beginning of

• Marginal drawing of a knight on horseback holding a sword., In Hexaemeron, imperfect

initials in brown or red. 1 marginal drawing of a knight on horseback holding a sword (Demetrios the Great) (f. 91). In Hexaemeron, imperfect ff. 2-8v, 10-15v, 17-120v, written by Nikephoros (inscription, f. 120v).ff. 1, 9, 16, are replacement paper

• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(Saepe) in foliate forms and an animal's neck and head, at the beginning of Cicero's De inventione, and the ink stamp of the Royal Society of London in the lower margin., De inventione (index Rhetorica); Rhetorica ad Herennium (index De ratione dicendi ad Herennium)

in brown ink with yellow and red washes, 2 with zoomorphic features of a animal head, or a bird (ff. 1, 3, 4, 24, 51v, 70). Large initials in red, most with yellow and/or red penwork decoration. Highlights in red

• Ink drawings of a beaver with a man blowing a horn, a crocodile swallowing a hydrus, a crocodile with fish, and a winged hyena., Bestiary

Ink drawings of a beaver with a man blowing a horn, a crocodile swallowing a hydrus, a crocodile with fish, and a winged hyena. In James's 'First Family' with text derived from the Physiologus with additions from the Etymologies

• Detail of ink drawings of an ibex and fire stones., Bestiary

Detail of ink drawings of an ibex and fire stones. In James's 'First Family' with text derived from the Physiologus with additions from the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, McCullough's subdivision 'B-Is' version, see McCullough 1962 p. 31; Payne