• Ownership inscription of a Franciscan convent, Canterbury, reading 'Iste liber est de communitate fr[atru]m minorum Cantuarie', and a 16th-century note describing the manuscript as the first volume of a Bible in 8 volumes, and referring to the set of books, now Royal 3 E I-V, VII-VIII, reading 'In this Bible withe a glosse and Com[m]entairies are 8 volumes and / in them are contayned Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numeri, / Deuteronomie, Esaye, Jeremye, Ezachiel, Daniel, Job, Psalmi / Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Cantica, Sapientia, Ecclesiasticus, Osee, / Joel, Amos, abdias, Jonas, Micheas, Nahum, Abacuc, Sophonias, / Aggeus, Zacharye, Malachye, Machabees, Matheum, Marc, / Luke, John, Act. Apost., Epist. Ad Romanos 1, ad Cotinth. 2, ad Galat. 1,/ ad Ephes. 1, ad Philipp. 1, ad Colocess. 1, ad Thessal 2, ad Thimoth 2., /ad Titu[m] 1, ad Philemonem 1, ad Hebreos 1, Jacobi 1, Petri 2, Joh[ann]is 3, / Juda 1, Apocalipse. Mss these are bounde in redde lether prynted./ Memorandum that in an other sute of the same order bounde in white lether in / 7 volumes you maye supplye yor wante of these followinge Josue, Judic. / Esdras, Ruth, Tobias, Hester. (added) ved. 3 E I-VIII./ So you wante in bothe only the bookes of Kinges and Chronicles. / Wherefore I woulde wishe yt bothe these fortes be kepte whollye and entierely / togither, that the one maye supplie / the wante of the other.', Genesis and Exodus, with the Glossa ordinaria

V, and 4 E VI, but not executed in the same workshop.Catchwords and corrector's signatures 'cor' at the end of quires, bifolium signatures. 2 historiated initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of each book (ff. 4, 125v). Foliate

• Puzzle initial 'H'(enricus) with pen-flourishing extending into the margins including birds at the beginning of the foundation charter., Cartulary of Reading abbey, imperfect

the abbey's liberties, with red initials, late 13th century with later additions (ff. 4-15v; 205-247v). Numerous additions throughout and on quires added at the end regarding the abbey, often written in Gothic cursive, mid-13th to mid-15th century.Inscribed 'Clayton in S.

• Miniature of Nectanebus seducing Olympias, Philip of Macedon's queen, in the guise of a dragon; miniature of Nectanebus as a dragon, kissing Olympias while she is at a table with Philip., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

5 scribes (Hand I: quires i-viii; Hand II: quires ix-xii, xvii-xix, xxxvi-xxvii; Hand III to be identified with Jean de Senlis: quires xiii-xvi, xxxi-xxxv; Hand IV: quires xx-xxii, xxiii except f. 165v, xxvi-xxx; Hand V: quires xxiii, f. 165v, xxiv-xxv),

• Miniature of Philip of Macedon taking Alexander to Aristotle., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

5 scribes (Hand I: quires i-viii; Hand II: quires ix-xii, xvii-xix, xxxvi-xxvii; Hand III to be identified with Jean de Senlis: quires xiii-xvi, xxxi-xxxv; Hand IV: quires xx-xxii, xxiii except f. 165v, xxvi-xxx; Hand V: quires xxiii, f. 165v, xxiv-xxv),

• Miniature of the death of Nectanebus., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

5 scribes (Hand I: quires i-viii; Hand II: quires ix-xii, xvii-xix, xxxvi-xxvii; Hand III to be identified with Jean de Senlis: quires xiii-xvi, xxxi-xxxv; Hand IV: quires xx-xxii, xxiii except f. 165v, xxvi-xxx; Hand V: quires xxiii, f. 165v, xxiv-xxv),

• Detail of a miniature of Bucephalus kneeling before Alexander, and Bucephalus with his cage., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

5 scribes (Hand I: quires i-viii; Hand II: quires ix-xii, xvii-xix, xxxvi-xxvii; Hand III to be identified with Jean de Senlis: quires xiii-xvi, xxxi-xxxv; Hand IV: quires xx-xxii, xxiii except f. 165v, xxvi-xxx; Hand V: quires xxiii, f. 165v, xxiv-xxv),

• Miniature of the coronation of Alexander., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

5 scribes (Hand I: quires i-viii; Hand II: quires ix-xii, xvii-xix, xxxvi-xxvii; Hand III to be identified with Jean de Senlis: quires xiii-xvi, xxxi-xxxv; Hand IV: quires xx-xxii, xxiii except f. 165v, xxvi-xxx; Hand V: quires xxiii, f. 165v, xxiv-xxv),

• Miniature of Philip and Alexander discussing envoys; miniature of Philip and Alexander setting out against Armenia; miniature of Pausanias and others marching against Philip., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

5 scribes (Hand I: quires i-viii; Hand II: quires ix-xii, xvii-xix, xxxvi-xxvii; Hand III to be identified with Jean de Senlis: quires xiii-xvi, xxxi-xxxv; Hand IV: quires xx-xxii, xxiii except f. 165v, xxvi-xxx; Hand V: quires xxiii, f. 165v, xxiv-xxv),

• Miniature of the defeat of Philip; miniature of the battle of Alexander and Pausanias; miniature of Alexander enthroned with Bucephalus under his feet., Historia de proeliis, translated in French as La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, and other romances

5 scribes (Hand I: quires i-viii; Hand II: quires ix-xii, xvii-xix, xxxvi-xxvii; Hand III to be identified with Jean de Senlis: quires xiii-xvi, xxxi-xxxv; Hand IV: quires xx-xxii, xxiii except f. 165v, xxvi-xxx; Hand V: quires xxiii, f. 165v, xxiv-xxv),

• Decorated initials and full bar border with quatrefoils, a few acanthus leaves, small red masks, and foliate decoration at the beginning of the vigil of the Ascension., Breviary (Temporal), Use of Sarum, imperfect

initials in blue or red enclosing foliate motifs on gold ground with foliate decoration extending into the margins (only in quires 'x' (ff. 65-72v), 'three dots' (ff. 97-104v) and the following one (ff. 105-112v)), or combined with bar borders ending

• Large puzzle initial 'Q'(uia) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of book 35 of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job., Moralia in Job

of book 35 of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. Quires are marked "correctus" in lower margin of the last leaf near the gutter (see e.g. ff. 125v, 137v, 149v, 161v, 173v, 185v, 197v, 207v, 219v, 231v, 243v, 255v, 267v,

• Historiated initial 'F'([rat]res) of Christ addressing his disciples at the beginning of the text., Lectionary

1), the Adoration of the Magi (f. 35)). Initials in gold with blue an/ord red pen-flourishing, replaced for a few quires by initials in gold on a blue and red ground, with a yellow outer frame (ff. 49-72v only). Smaller

• Decorated initials with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the text., Summa de vitiis et virtutibus (index Summa virtutum)

aid in the lower margin of f. 3 stating the number of quires. Original foliation in Arabic numerals the lower margin.Catchwords written horizontally.f. 1* is a parchment flyleaf. Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours

• Puzzle initial 'Q'(uedam) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of the text., De animalibus

43, 44, and part of f. 65 has been excised.Inscription at the end stating the number of folios and quires (f. 65).ff. 1* and 66 are former pastedowns. Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in both colours extending

• Puzzle initial 'G'(losarum), at the beginning of Goffredus Tranensis's Summa super titulis Decretalium., Summa super titulis Decretalium

Goffredus Tranensis's Summa super titulis Decretalium. Most quires have on their last verso a count of the number of paraphs in the quire, e.g. 'cxxii' (f. 13v), 'c' (f. 24v), 'cxx' (f. 37v), etc. 5 large puzzle initials in red

• Puzzle initial 'G'(losarum), at the beginning of Goffredus Tranensis's Summa super titulis Decretalium., Summa super titulis Decretalium

Goffredus Tranensis's Summa super titulis Decretalium. Most quires have on their last verso a count of the number of paraphs in the quire, e.g. 'cxxii' (f. 13v), 'c' (f. 24v), 'cxx' (f. 37v), etc. 5 large puzzle initials in red

• Initial 'D'(ifficiles) and puzzle initial 'A'(littera) at the beginning of William Brito's 'Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae'., Expositiones vocabulorum Bibliae (ff. 2-127); Corrogationes Promethei (ff. 128-139)

the last leaf of the quire); leaf signatures (on the recto of the leaves of the first half of some quires: 'I'-'iiii'); catchwords.f. 1 is a medieval parchment flyleaf; remains of a lost parchment flyleaf is pasted on f. 1

• Two puzzle initials 'N'(e) and 'P'(astoralis) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Gregory the Great's De cura pastorali., Theological miscellany, including Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali (ff. 1-42v); Innocent III, De misera humanae conditionis (ff. 43-59) and Augustine, Retractationes, book 2 chapter 35 (59v); imperfect

from a 12th-century manuscript with musical notation, on four-line red staves.Leaf signatures (i, ii, iii, iiii, v) in crayon in quires 1-2; remains of catchwords. 2 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in both colours (f. 1).

• Puzzle initial 'A'(nno) with pen-flourishing., Chronica maiora

faces (ff. 1*-2*,190-191v only). Coloured initials in alternating red and blue. Extended ascender on the first line in a few quires. Chronica maiora The Cistercian abbey of St Mary's, Jervaulx (Yorkshire), late-13th or early-14th century: inscribed 'liber jorevallis (ff. 11v,

• Decorated initials with pen-flourishing., Glossed Digestum Vetus, in 24 books

ff. 70, 151 also only have gloss framing an empty space.All bifolios have been split into separate leaves so that quires can only be distinguished by catchwords and leaf signatures. Some leaves are significantly smaller (e.g., ff. 125-126).Parts of the