• Puzzle initial 'A'(d), at the beginning of book 3., Comedies; Etymologiae (lib. 1: 21)

3 attributed to the cathedral scriptorium of Salisbury on stylistic grounds (see Thomson 1986 and Webber 1992)Part 2: the Cathedral church of St Mary, Salisbury: probably to be identified with no. 79 in Patrick Young's catalogue of the cathedral library,

• Text pages., Comedies; Etymologiae (lib. 1: 21)

3 attributed to the cathedral scriptorium of Salisbury on stylistic grounds (see Thomson 1986 and Webber 1992)Part 2: the Cathedral church of St Mary, Salisbury: probably to be identified with no. 79 in Patrick Young's catalogue of the cathedral library,

• Text page., Leaf from Aelfric's 'Catholic Homelies', I.xx and xxviii, cropped

[part 4]: Originally part of a manuscript corpus of Augustine's works written by Eadmer, (d. c. 1130), monk at Christ Church, Canterbury, in the late 1080s (see Gullick 1998).f. 25 [part 12]:? Hew Herte, possibly identifiable with Hugh Herte (d.

• Coloured initial., Leaf from an unidentified Biblical Chronicle (?)

[part 4]: Originally part of a manuscript corpus of Augustine's works written by Eadmer, (d. c. 1130), monk at Christ Church, Canterbury, in the late 1080s (see Gullick 1998).f. 25 [part 12]:? Hew Herte, possibly identifiable with Hugh Herte (d.

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uam) with a human face., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young, 17th century (ff. 163-165). Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Decorated initial Aldhelm Winchester England, S. (Winchester or Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Zoomorphic initial 'H'(anc)., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young, 17th century (ff. 163-165). Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Zoomorphic initial Aldhelm Winchester England, S. (Winchester or Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Zoomorphic initial 'P'(orro)., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young, 17th century (ff. 163-165). Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Zoomorphic initial Aldhelm Winchester England, S. (Winchester or Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Zoomorphic initial 'P'(rete)., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young, 17th century (ff. 163-165). Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Zoomorphic initial Aldhelm Winchester England, S. (Winchester or Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Zoomorphic initial 'D'(omino)., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young, 17th century (ff. 163-165). Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Zoomorphic initial Aldhelm Winchester England, S. (Winchester or Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Zoomorphic initial 'R'*everentissimis) with display script., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young, 17th century (ff. 163-165). Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Zoomorphic initial Aldhelm Winchester England, S. (Winchester or Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Zoomorphic initial 'P'(rimitus)., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young, 17th century (ff. 163-165). Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Zoomorphic initial Aldhelm Winchester England, S. (Winchester or Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Zoomorphic initial 'P'., De laudibus virginitatis; letter of Aldhelm to Ehfridus

with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young, 17th century (ff. 163-165). Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Zoomorphic initial Aldhelm Winchester England, S. (Winchester or Canterbury, Christ Church)

• Initial and musical notation in Anglo-Saxon neumes., Leaves from a Gradual

initial in red. Rubrics in red. Musical notation above the text. Leaves from a Gradual The Benedictine abbey of Christ Church, Canterbury: see Temple 1976f. 2 contains text in Latin in a 12th-century hand.ff. 54v-55v contain small sections of musical

• Decorated initial., Epistolae; Epistulae VII (index Letters)

paraphs in red. Epistolae; Epistulae VII (index Letters) Written at Saint-Denis, according to M. Bischoff (see Nebbiai-Della Guarda 1985).The cathedral church of St Peter, York: inscribed 'Ebor' (f. 119v).Marginal scribble in Anglo-Saxon, 10th- or 11th-century (f. 88); see Ker 1957.Sir

• Coloured initial 'G'(reca) at the beginning of Atticus of Constantinople's Epistola formata., De utilitate poenitentiae, Canonum constitutio, Epistola de privilegio Chorepiscoporum, imperfect at the end

large, some small. Rubrics in red. De utilitate poenitentiae, Canonum constitutio, Epistola de privilegio Chorepiscoporum, imperfect at the end The Church of St. Pierre, Ghent, Belgium: its 12th-century ownership inscription inscribed, 'Liber S. Petri Gandensis Ecclesie. Servanti benedictio: tollenti maledictio.

• Preface and beginning of Luke's gospel with decorated initial 'Q'(uoniam) enclosing a flower., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

St Petroc, Bodmin by the end of the 10th century: records of public manumissions at the high altar of the church were added in Anglo-Saxon minuscule in the 2nd half of the 10th and the 11th centuries. They include the

• Illuminated initial 'B'(eatus) with penwork decoration, at the beginning of Psalm 1 opening the breviary, and two smaller initials with penwork decoration: 'Q'(uare) and 'D'(omine), at the beginings of Psalms 2 and 3., Breviary

green (22nd June, f. 4v), 'Inventio Sancti Albani' in red, with octave (2nd August, f. 5v), the dedication of the church of St. Alban (29th December, f. 7), but does not include the feast of Edward the Confessor (canonised 1161),

• Calendar page, with an ownership inscription of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans, reading 'Hic est lib[er] s[an]cti Albani que qui abstulerit aut / titulum deleverit anathema sit. Amem', with a note reading 'De armariolo in choro.', Breviary

green (22nd June, f. 4v), 'Inventio Sancti Albani' in red, with octave (2nd August, f. 5v), the dedication of the church of St. Alban (29th December, f. 7), but does not include the feast of Edward the Confessor (canonised 1161),

• Calendar page with an added obit of 'fr[ater] Willelmus de Hextanton apud Lugdunum'., Breviary

green (22nd June, f. 4v), 'Inventio Sancti Albani' in red, with octave (2nd August, f. 5v), the dedication of the church of St. Alban (29th December, f. 7), but does not include the feast of Edward the Confessor (canonised 1161),

• Interlace initial 'D'(omino) with animal heads at the beginning of Bede's prologue to the life of Cuthbert, in the form of a letter written to Eadfrith, to whom he dedicated the work., Lives of Cuthbert in prose (ff. 2-42v) and verse (ff. 45-62v), with services for Cuthbert, Benedict and Guthlac with musical notation (ff. 43-44; 63-66)

dedicated the work. Wormald Type II(b) initials of heads, interlace in outline, and acanthus foliage.Musical notation: Breton neumes, England (Christ Church – Canterbury ?), 11th century (ff. 43-44; 63-66v).St Cuthbert was a seventh-century, English Christian leader, renowned for his ascetic