• Detail of a miniature of beavers (Castor) with hunters, illustrating the text that the beavers' testicles had healing properties, and that the animals would bite them off in order to escape capture., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard

• Coloured initial 'B'(eatus) in green, with pen-flourished decoration and music staves., Fragment of a leaf from an English early 13th century Breviary containing the Office for St Nicholas.

of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716) for historical purposes. 190 printed book fragments from the volume were transferred to the

• Puzzle initial 'P'(rimum) with pen-flourishing and display script., Acts of the Apostles, with glossa ordinaria

'1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6469.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: perhaps included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix 70, no. 193.Charles

• Text page with decorated initials and ownership inscription., Acts of the Apostles, with glossa ordinaria

'1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6469.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: perhaps included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, appraised in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix 70, no. 193.Charles

• Decorated initials 'REVE'(rentissimis) and 'IAM'., De laudibus virginitatis

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6394.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 143.Charles

• Decorated initial 'H'(ec)., De laudibus virginitatis

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6394.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 143.Charles

• Decorated initial 'T'(empore) with an animal mask., De laudibus virginitatis

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6394.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 143.Charles

• Decorated initial 'Q'(uid) with a lion., De laudibus virginitatis

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6394.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 143.Charles

• Decorated initials 'SE'(d)., De laudibus virginitatis

Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), II, no. 6394.Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the catalogue of John Theyer’s manuscripts in his possession, made in 1678 by William Beveridge and William Jane, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 143.Charles

• Table of contents with decorated initials., Epistle of St John (f. 4); Sermons (f. 6); Sermones de oneribus (f. 43), De spiritali amicitia (f. 137), Speculum caritatis (159v)

with penwork decoration in table of contents (f. 3v). Rubrics, running titles, highlighting and underlining in red. Epistle of St John (f. 4); Sermons (f. 6); Sermones de oneribus (f. 43), De spiritali amicitia (f. 137), Speculum caritatis (159v) On

• Puzzle initial 'V'(ere) with penwork decoration., Epistle of St John (f. 4); Sermons (f. 6); Sermones de oneribus (f. 43), De spiritali amicitia (f. 137), Speculum caritatis (159v)

with penwork decoration in table of contents (f. 3v). Rubrics, running titles, highlighting and underlining in red. Epistle of St John (f. 4); Sermons (f. 6); Sermones de oneribus (f. 43), De spiritali amicitia (f. 137), Speculum caritatis (159v) On

• Initial 'O'(mnium) with foliate decoration., Epistle of St John (f. 4); Sermons (f. 6); Sermones de oneribus (f. 43), De spiritali amicitia (f. 137), Speculum caritatis (159v)

with penwork decoration in table of contents (f. 3v). Rubrics, running titles, highlighting and underlining in red. Epistle of St John (f. 4); Sermons (f. 6); Sermones de oneribus (f. 43), De spiritali amicitia (f. 137), Speculum caritatis (159v) On

• Ownership inscription of Kirkstead Abbey in capitals., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

John Longland, bishop of Lincoln and confessor of Henry VIII, Royal Appendix 69 (see Carley 2000).The flyleaves contain two Goliardic poems or satires on church abuses in a 13th-century hand: an invective against the bishops of Bath [Jocelin], Norwich

• Initial 'D'(ionysius) with foliate decoration., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

John Longland, bishop of Lincoln and confessor of Henry VIII, Royal Appendix 69 (see Carley 2000).The flyleaves contain two Goliardic poems or satires on church abuses in a 13th-century hand: an invective against the bishops of Bath [Jocelin], Norwich

• Initial 'P'(rimus) with decoration., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

John Longland, bishop of Lincoln and confessor of Henry VIII, Royal Appendix 69 (see Carley 2000).The flyleaves contain two Goliardic poems or satires on church abuses in a 13th-century hand: an invective against the bishops of Bath [Jocelin], Norwich

• Large initial 'I'(udei) with decoration in angular and foliate patterns., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

John Longland, bishop of Lincoln and confessor of Henry VIII, Royal Appendix 69 (see Carley 2000).The flyleaves contain two Goliardic poems or satires on church abuses in a 13th-century hand: an invective against the bishops of Bath [Jocelin], Norwich

• Initial 'H'(is) with decoration., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

John Longland, bishop of Lincoln and confessor of Henry VIII, Royal Appendix 69 (see Carley 2000).The flyleaves contain two Goliardic poems or satires on church abuses in a 13th-century hand: an invective against the bishops of Bath [Jocelin], Norwich

• Puzzle initial 'N'(emo) at the beginning of Jerome's prologue to Isaiah, with John Lumley's ownership inscription in the lower margin., Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel with Jerome's prologues and the Glossa ordinaria

of Jerome's prologue to Isaiah, with John Lumley's ownership inscription in the lower margin. f. i is a parchment flyleaf.1 blank parchment leaf between Isaiah and Jeremiah (ff. 107-108).At the end, on f. 297v, are lists of the kings of

• Historiated initial 'I'(n) with a nimbed eagle and decorated letters at the beginning of John, with marginal decoration., New Testament, with calendar (ff. 309v-312)

and decorated letters at the beginning of John, with marginal decoration. The calendar has a preponderance of French saints, including some that are specially associated with the south of France, e.g., Pontius, martyr (Nice, Narbonne, etc.), May 11; Genesius, martyr

• Miniature of animals, including a ram, labelled 'Leena'., Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds

related to other manuscripts that may have been made in Salisbury.Various 16th-17th-century inscriptions: ' John Bollocke of Marden' (f. 34v), 'Abraham Millard' (Ilined out) (f. 43v), John Burd' (f. 53), 'James Solbrery' (f. 58), 'Edward Lord Herbert' (f. 65v), 'Richard