• Detail of Moses and Gideon in armour with a shield., Psalter, fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion')

shield. This manuscript is 381, article 1. Article 2 (kept separately) contains the Sarum Breviary, imperfect, and is foliated continuing with 12-76. It contains a table of contents for the whole volume (f. 1), and also shows evidence of a

• Miniature of the Presentation, with Moses and Malachi below holding scrolls., Psalter, fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion')

scrolls. This manuscript is 381, article 1. Article 2 (kept separately) contains the Sarum Breviary, imperfect, and is foliated continuing with 12-76. It contains a table of contents for the whole volume (f. 1), and also shows evidence of a

• Decorated initial 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of the Psalms., Psalter, fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion')

Psalms. This manuscript is 381, article 1. Article 2 (kept separately) contains the Sarum Breviary, imperfect, and is foliated continuing with 12-76. It contains a table of contents for the whole volume (f. 1), and also shows evidence of a

• Text page., Psalter, fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion')

page. This manuscript is 381, article 1. Article 2 (kept separately) contains the Sarum Breviary, imperfect, and is foliated continuing with 12-76. It contains a table of contents for the whole volume (f. 1), and also shows evidence of a

• Illuminated initial 'M'(isericordiam)., Psalter, fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion')

'M'(isericordiam). This manuscript is 381, article 1. Article 2 (kept separately) contains the Sarum Breviary, imperfect, and is foliated continuing with 12-76. It contains a table of contents for the whole volume (f. 1), and also shows evidence of a

• Miniature of the Crucifixion flanked by Mary and John holding a book, with Henry the Lion and Matilda below holding scrolls, and personifications of the sun and moon above., Psalter, fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion')

above. This manuscript is 381, article 1. Article 2 (kept separately) contains the Sarum Breviary, imperfect, and is foliated continuing with 12-76. It contains a table of contents for the whole volume (f. 1), and also shows evidence of a

• Miniature of the Three Holy Women at the Tomb., Psalter, fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion')

Tomb. This manuscript is 381, article 1. Article 2 (kept separately) contains the Sarum Breviary, imperfect, and is foliated continuing with 12-76. It contains a table of contents for the whole volume (f. 1), and also shows evidence of a

• Decorated initial 'D'(omine)., Psalter, fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion')

'D'(omine). This manuscript is 381, article 1. Article 2 (kept separately) contains the Sarum Breviary, imperfect, and is foliated continuing with 12-76. It contains a table of contents for the whole volume (f. 1), and also shows evidence of a

• Decorated initial 'V'(etus), at the beginning of book 4., De universo seu De rerum naturis

to Haymo, bishop of Halberstadt (840-853) (ff. 2-2v), with a table of capitula (ff. 3-5v).Includes the punctus flexus punctuation mark. 1 large foliate initial inhabited with human figures and animals, in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text

• Illuminated initial 'I'(nter) at the beginning of book 1 of the Polycraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

ab executorib[us] p[re]d[ic]ti ep[iscop]i anno / d[omi]ni Mlill[esim]o CCCmoXLVto circa purificat[i]o[n]em b[eat]e V[ir]ginis' (f. 1); with a list of contents, in the same hand (f. 1); perhaps to be identified with the 'Policraticon Iohannis Sariburiensis cum aliis libri contentis; included

• Decorated initial 'A'(dversus), at the beginning of book 1 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

ab executorib[us] p[re]d[ic]ti ep[iscop]i anno / d[omi]ni Mlill[esim]o CCCmoXLVto circa purificat[i]o[n]em b[eat]e V[ir]ginis' (f. 1); with a list of contents, in the same hand (f. 1); perhaps to be identified with the 'Policraticon Iohannis Sariburiensis cum aliis libri contentis; included

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'S'(i) with two lions, at the beginning of the Policraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

ab executorib[us] p[re]d[ic]ti ep[iscop]i anno / d[omi]ni Mlill[esim]o CCCmoXLVto circa purificat[i]o[n]em b[eat]e V[ir]ginis' (f. 1); with a list of contents, in the same hand (f. 1); perhaps to be identified with the 'Policraticon Iohannis Sariburiensis cum aliis libri contentis; included

• Decorated initial 'N'(on) at the beginning of book 5 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

ab executorib[us] p[re]d[ic]ti ep[iscop]i anno / d[omi]ni Mlill[esim]o CCCmoXLVto circa purificat[i]o[n]em b[eat]e V[ir]ginis' (f. 1); with a list of contents, in the same hand (f. 1); perhaps to be identified with the 'Policraticon Iohannis Sariburiensis cum aliis libri contentis; included

• Illuminated initial 'D'(ogmate), at the beginning of the Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

ab executorib[us] p[re]d[ic]ti ep[iscop]i anno / d[omi]ni Mlill[esim]o CCCmoXLVto circa purificat[i]o[n]em b[eat]e V[ir]ginis' (f. 1); with a list of contents, in the same hand (f. 1); perhaps to be identified with the 'Policraticon Iohannis Sariburiensis cum aliis libri contentis; included

• Decorated initial 'N'(otum) at the beginning of book 6 of the Metalogicon., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

ab executorib[us] p[re]d[ic]ti ep[iscop]i anno / d[omi]ni Mlill[esim]o CCCmoXLVto circa purificat[i]o[n]em b[eat]e V[ir]ginis' (f. 1); with a list of contents, in the same hand (f. 1); perhaps to be identified with the 'Policraticon Iohannis Sariburiensis cum aliis libri contentis; included

• Inhabited initial 'S'(i) with two lions, at the beginning of the Policraticus., Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

ab executorib[us] p[re]d[ic]ti ep[iscop]i anno / d[omi]ni Mlill[esim]o CCCmoXLVto circa purificat[i]o[n]em b[eat]e V[ir]ginis' (f. 1); with a list of contents, in the same hand (f. 1); perhaps to be identified with the 'Policraticon Iohannis Sariburiensis cum aliis libri contentis; included

• The first inscription recording that the book was commissioned by Simon, abbot of St. Albans (1167-1183), 'Hunc librum fecit domnus Symon abbas s[an]c[t]o Albano, que[m] qui ei abstule/rit', aut frande[m] commiserit, aut titulu[m] deleverit vel corup[er]it; anathema sit'; with a list of contents reading 'Policraticon / Metalogicon / Enteticus Joh[ann]is Sarisbi[r]ens[is]', and second is note recording that in 1345 the manuscript was bought by Michael, abbot of St. Albans, from the executors of Richard de Bury, bishop of Durham, reading 'Hu[n]c libru[m] venditu[m] d[omi]no Ric[ard]o de Biry ep[iscop]o Dunelm[ensi] emit / Michael abbas s[anct]i Albani ab executorib[us] p[re]d[ic]ti ep[iscop]i anno / d[omi]ni Mlill[esim]o CCCmoXLVto circa purificat[i]o[n]em b[eat]e V[ir]ginis.', Policraticus, Metalogicon, and Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum

ab executorib[us] p[re]d[ic]ti ep[iscop]i anno / d[omi]ni Mlill[esim]o CCCmoXLVto circa purificat[i]o[n]em b[eat]e V[ir]ginis' (f. 1); with a list of contents, in the same hand (f. 1); perhaps to be identified with the 'Policraticon Iohannis Sariburiensis cum aliis libri contentis; included

• Coloured initials., Statutes of the Norwegian Church, fragment

Coloured initials. Musical notation: Anglo-Saxon neumes, England (Winchester), mid-11th century (f. 4-4v).The volume is a composite manuscript made up of fragments of different date and origin bound at the beginning of the 16th-century swan-mark collection.The statutes of the Norwegian

• Coloured initials., Statutes of the Norwegian Church, fragment

Coloured initials. Musical notation: Anglo-Saxon neumes, England (Winchester), mid-11th century (f. 4-4v).The volume is a composite manuscript made up of fragments of different date and origin bound at the beginning of the 16th-century swan-mark collection.The statutes of the Norwegian

• null, Legenda aurea (index Legendae sanctorum; Legends of the saints; Golden Legend)

inscription (f. 2, copied on f. 1v in a 18th-century hand). Recipe for ink in Latin with English notes (f. 1), in a 17th-century hand. Stephen Potts: sold to Twysden in 1626: see Ovenden.Sir Roger Twysden (b. 1597, d. 1672),