• Beginning of the text of John., Four Gospels (the 'Harley Gospels', or 'Codex Harleianus')

the text of John. This is source Z in the studies of the Latin New Testament (Wordsworth and White; Bonifatius Fischer). Corrections in a contemporary hand in slanting uncial employ a Greek style of syllabification recalling the method of Victor

• king John is brought to Winchester for burial, Roman de Brut, a verse epitome (begins imperfectly) with continuation to Edward III; Destruction de Rome; Fierabras

king John is brought to Winchester for burial The first quire misbound; the right order being ff. 2, 8, 3-7, 1, 9.French verse translation, in octosyllabic couplets, of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.One of the first images of Stonehenge:

• Text page in the register for Northload [in Glastonbury]., Terrier of the Somersetshire estates of Glastonbury Abbey, with additional material relating to the abbey

Thomas Sutton, 'cellerarius forinsicus', assisted by John fitz James, steward of the abbey, William Lange, auditor, Thomas Gunwyn, a clerk with a special knowledge of the Glastonbury muniments and 'circa terrarium mensuratorem precipuum,' and John Horner, bailiff of Whitstone, who

• Text page in the register for Northload [in Glastonbury]., Terrier of the Somersetshire estates of Glastonbury Abbey, with additional material relating to the abbey

Thomas Sutton, 'cellerarius forinsicus', assisted by John fitz James, steward of the abbey, William Lange, auditor, Thomas Gunwyn, a clerk with a special knowledge of the Glastonbury muniments and 'circa terrarium mensuratorem precipuum,' and John Horner, bailiff of Whitstone, who

• Text page in the register for Northload [in Glastonbury]., Terrier of the Somersetshire estates of Glastonbury Abbey, with additional material relating to the abbey

Thomas Sutton, 'cellerarius forinsicus', assisted by John fitz James, steward of the abbey, William Lange, auditor, Thomas Gunwyn, a clerk with a special knowledge of the Glastonbury muniments and 'circa terrarium mensuratorem precipuum,' and John Horner, bailiff of Whitstone, who

• Miniature of John the Almoner kneeling before the Virgin, with a partial border and a foliate initial 'L'(aint) instead of 'S'., Legenda aurea

of John the Almoner kneeling before the Virgin, with a partial border and a foliate initial 'L'(aint) instead of 'S'. Contains the Golden legend by Iacobus de Voragine translated in c. 1333-1348 by Jean de Vignay as Legende doree, originally

• Miniature of John the Baptist with a partial border and two foliate initials 'I'(ehan)., Legenda aurea

of John the Baptist with a partial border and two foliate initials 'I'(ehan). Contains the Golden legend by Iacobus de Voragine translated in c. 1333-1348 by Jean de Vignay as Legende doree, originally for Jeanne de Bourgogne, queen of France

• Illuminated initials and border at the beginning of the Mass for Trinity Sunday (the first Sunday after Pentecost, which itself occurs on the 50th day after Easter)., Missal, use of Sarum, with a Calendar (ff. 1-6v), imperfect at the end

1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723.The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford

• Puzzle initial 'E'(xemplum) at the beginning of the Gesta Romanorum., Tabula super methodo fulgentii, Gesta Romanorum (index Deeds of the Romans), Liber de vitiis, various sermons

1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723.The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford

• Illuminated initials and border with foliate decoration., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, with a calendar (ff. 1-6v), imperfect

clergyman and antiquary: his name (f. 1); sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723.The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford

• Coloured initials, 'A', 'P', and 'F', with guide letters for the decorator visible in the left margin., Religious miscellany with treatises, sermons, the Speculum peccatorum (ff. 1-8), the legend of Pachomius (ff. 93v-96v), a description of a miraculous vision of A.D. 1287 (ff. 98v-99), and verses in English (f. 99v)

the British Library. Coloured initials Written by more than one scribe Various authors including Pseudo-Augustine, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hugh of Saint-Victor, John Chrysostom, Peter of Blois, John Cassian (index Hugh of St Victor, Hugo de Saint-Victor) England

• Arms of Robert Steward (d. 1557), prior and dean of the Benedictine cathedral priory of Ely; inscribed, 'Arma d[omi]ni Roberti Steward prioris Elien[sis]'., Philomela

d[omi]ni Roberti Steward prioris Elien[sis]'. ff. 1*-2*, 78-79 are parchment leaves from another manuscript.For the text, see Clemens Blume, 'John Hovedens Nachtigallenleid über die Liebe unseres Erlösers und Königs Christus' in ~Hymnologische Beiträge~, 4 vols, ed. by Clemens Blume and

• Decorated initial 'V'(erbum) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the text., Verbum abbreviatum

1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723.The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford

• Partial bar border with puzzle initial 'Q'(uod vides, scribe)., Commentary on Revelation, imperfect at the end

Commentary on Revelation, imperfect at the end John Batteley (b. 1647, d. 1708), Church of England clergyman and antiquary: sold to Edward Harley with the rest of his collection through his nephew John Batteley on 5 November 1723.The Harley Collection,

• Decorated line and initials., Letters, including a Commentary on Hosea (ff. 147-154)

initials. The manuscript includes:St John Chrysostom, 216 letters (ff. 1-102v);Gregorios Mammas, Patriarch of Constantinople, 'Responsio ad epistulam Marci Ephesii' (ff. 104-146v);Commentary on Hosea, including extracts from the Acts of the Third Council (ff. 147-154).Watermark of a cross-bow in circle with

• Headpiece with interlace decoration., Theological works

see Gamillscheg and Harlfinger 1981).Dionysios Spanos (index Dionysius), ex-Patriarch of Constantinople: owned before April 1677 and presented by him to John Covel while in retreat at the Great Lavra, Mount Athos, in April 1677, his inscriptions (ff. 1v, 380; see

• Decorative headpiece and intials at the beginning of the first Ode., Psalter with odes, prayers, service of holy communion, and a short excerpt from Daniel (ff. 213v-214)

Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Ode Symeon Metaphrastes, St Basil, St John Chrysostom, St John of Damascus and others Italy or Eastern Mediterranean

• Binding with tracery decoration., Psalms in English verse (girdle book)

earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883. Binding John Croke (translator) London England, S. E. (London)

• Text page with a bar border and historiated initials 'P'(arce): Peter and John heal the lame man; historiated initial 'C'(redo): Peter and John with the people; historiated initial 'T'(edet): Ananias before the apostles., Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Bohun Psalter and Hours'), imperfect

Text page with a bar border and historiated initials 'P'(arce): Peter and John heal the lame man; historiated initial 'C'(redo): Peter and John with the people; historiated initial 'T'(edet): Ananias before the apostles. The former 18th-century binding now kept separately

• Illuminated initial 'A'(ctum) with a partial bar border, at the beginning of book 10., Commentary on Unum ex quatuor

328-331v), and 2 foliate descenders of a human head and a fish (ff. 333, 420v). Commentary on Unum ex quatuor John Leyre, rector of Great Doddington, Northans (1377-81), presented to the church of Doddington, in the diocese of Lincoln in