• Foliate initial 'I'(mp[er]atoriam), and flourished heading 'Imperator', at the beginning of the Institutionum juris libri quatuor., Glossed Arbor Actionum, Volumen Parvum, and Liber Feudorum, preceeded by a table of actiones (ff. 1v-2), and a table of content (ff. 3-4v)

decorated in different related styles which overlap at the end and at the beginning of the texts according to the quires. Ff. 5-125v: 1 large marginal coloured drawing of a queen (f. 1v). 1 small miniature, accompanied by a large

• Circular design, inscribed 'Liber sancte marie virginis in monasterio Eberbacensi'., Vita Christi (chapters 1-60)

Eberbacensi'. Leaves numbered in red ink in the upper margin; quires numbered in red ink in the lower margins of first rectos. Ownership inscription in the form of a large circular design, in red and blue, with pen-flourishing in red

• Puzzle initial 'F'(undamentum), at the beginning of the prologue., Vita Christi (chapters 1-60)

Leaves numbered in red ink in the upper margin; quires numbered in red ink in the lower margins of first rectos. Ownership inscription in the form of a large circular design, in red and blue, with pen-flourishing in red with

• Part of the border with an Agnus dei, at the beginning of the prologue., Vita Christi (chapters 1-60)

of the prologue. Leaves numbered in red ink in the upper margin; quires numbered in red ink in the lower margins of first rectos. Ownership inscription in the form of a large circular design, in red and blue, with pen-flourishing

• Part of the border with the arms of the Rotenhan family of Bamberg, at the beginning of the prologue., Vita Christi (chapters 1-60)

the beginning of the prologue. Leaves numbered in red ink in the upper margin; quires numbered in red ink in the lower margins of first rectos. Ownership inscription in the form of a large circular design, in red and blue,

• Penwork initial 'H'(ec) with the head of a black man wearing a mitre, at the beginning of the table of contents., Vita Christi (chapters 1-60)

beginning of the table of contents. Leaves numbered in red ink in the upper margin; quires numbered in red ink in the lower margins of first rectos. Ownership inscription in the form of a large circular design, in red and

• Illuminated initial 'M'(ark) and border., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

and sometimes with faces (e.g., vol. II, f. 326v) and pen-flourishing; inconsistently tinted with a yellow wash (e.g. vol. I, quires 3-14, 35, 43). [The style of the initials, borders, and running-titles changes from the beginning of volume II, f.

• Diagram., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• Detail of historiated initial 'F'(uit) of the Anoiting of David., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• Detail of historiated initial, with a king in bed, and pointing to a building., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• Text page., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• Detail of an initial-word panel with pen-flourishing and a medallion formed by foliate motifs: a rooster holding a piece of wheat with a snake coiling on it in its beak, and above the rooster, there is a moon and a hexagram; probably the emblem of the patron., ~Baal ha-Lashon~ (The Master of the Language)

emblem of the patron. 3 unfoliated blank leaves at the end ff. [287]-[289]. Six unfoliated blank leaves after f. 2. Quires are numbered with Hebrew characters starting with alef on f. 13v until f. 163v. Flesh side and hair side

• Added page of a large historiated and illuminated initial 'B'(eatus) with a tree of Jesse, roundels or half-roundels of the six days of Creation, mounted animals jousting, and David with a slingshot and Goliath, with heraldic arms in the left margin, inserted before the beginning of the New Testament., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

and sometimes with faces (e.g., vol. II, f. 326v) and pen-flourishing; inconsistently tinted with a yellow wash (e.g. vol. I, quires 3-14, 35, 43). [The style of the initials, borders, and running-titles changes from the beginning of volume II, f.

• Large puzzle initial 'P'(rimus) with penwork decoration., Collection of chronicles including Chronici canones; Epistola ad Warinum

Large puzzle initial 'P'(rimus) with penwork decoration. Part 1: Remains of quire marks (in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires).Part 2: Leaf signatures: 'ci'-'ciiii'. 1 large puzzle initial in

• Decorated initial 'O'(mnipotens) combined with a partial border with acanthus leaves, flowers and foliate feathering at the beginning of a prayer to God the Father., Prayer book

at the beginning of a prayer to God the Father. ff. 1-6v and ff. 51-56v are quires from the sanctoral of an English 14th-century liturgical manuscript (255 x 170 (195 x 135), in 2 columns), with coloured initials in red

• Illuminated historiated initial, with Moses (identified by his horns) facing a group of Israelites, making a gesture of speaking (or perhaps counting?) at the beginning of Deuteronomy. The blue ground-line on which they all stand is in fact a serpent., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• Illuminated historiated initial 'E' at the beginning of Josua, probably inspired by Joshua 5:3, in which Joshua circumcises the Israelites who had been born after the Israelites fled from Egypt, with Josua characterised as an ugly hook-nosed Jew., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• Illuminated historiated initial 'P' at the beginning of II Kings, probably representing the events related in II Kings 24:11, in which King Nebuchadnezzar besieged and captured Jerusalem. This subject may have been chosen because it was relatively 'topical': Jerusalem had been captured in the Fourth Crusade just a few decades before this manuscript was made., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• Illuminated historiated initial 'T' at the beginning of Tobit, with Tobit on the left (his closed eyes signifying his blindness) sending out his son Tobias with the angel Raphael, instead of the more usual scene of the blinding of Tobit which is more typically is illustrated., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• Illuminated historiated initial 'E' at the beginning of I Maccabees of a man being executed for refusing to worship idols (I Macc. 1:52), and one of the many battles which occurred during the Maccabees' reign. In the extreme lower right-hand corner is the word 'emendatus', indicating that the text of this quire has been corrected., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the