Detail of decorated braided headpiece. f. i is a letter from Edward Burton, Regious Professor Divinity at Oxford to Davies Gilbert, President of the Royal Society dated 1831.For Arundel's acquisition of Greek manuscripts see generally David Howarth, ~Lord Arundel
in ~Tituli librorum de libraria ecclesiae Christi~ compiled under Henry of Estria (1284-1331), Cotton Galba E IV (see James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge, University Press, 1903) no 321, p. 51); extensively corrected in the 11th-12th centuries
in ~Tituli librorum de libraria ecclesiae Christi~ compiled under Henry of Estria (1284-1331), Cotton Galba E IV (see James, ~The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover~ (Cambridge, University Press, 1903) no 321, p. 51); extensively corrected in the 11th-12th centuries
Coloured initial 'P'(rimus) at the beginning of notes on the compotus, and below, an added list of the archbishops of Canterbury. Originally formed a single volume with Cotton Caligula A XV ff. 120-53. For a discussion of the original