• Foliate initial 'C'(umque) at the beginning of the prologue., 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

• Historiated initial 'F'(rater) depicting Jerome and Damasus (above), and Jerome and Ambrose (below), with the ownership inscriptions of Abbot Robert de Bello at the top of the page and under the feet of the peacock., 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

• Historiated initial 'F'(rater) depicting Jerome and Damasus (above), and Jerome and Ambrose (below), with the ownership inscriptions of Abbot Robert de Bello at the top of the page and under the feet of the peacock., 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

• Historiated initial 'L'(iber) depiciting a Tree of Jesse, at the start of Matthew; the prologue has a smaller historiated initial 'M'(atheus) depicting two male figures., 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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).

• 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

• Coloured initial 'Q'(uid) at the beginning of Psalm 51., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

Coloured initial 'Q'(uid) at the beginning of Psalm 51. Includes a 'Psalter romanum', with marginal glosses in Latin and interlinear Old English gloss, attributed to Aethelwold (ff. 8-171) (see Gretsch, 1999), 12 canticles (ff. 171v-186v) and a Gloria entitled

• Coloured initial 'B'(eatus) with display script, at the beginning of Psalm 1, with the pressmark of Christ Church, Canterbury 'r', and ownership inscriptions of Thomas Cranmer and Lord Lumley., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

Coloured initial 'B'(eatus) with display script, at the beginning of Psalm 1, with the pressmark of Christ Church, Canterbury 'r', and ownership inscriptions of Thomas Cranmer and Lord Lumley. Includes a 'Psalter romanum', with marginal glosses in Latin and

• Decorated initial 'A'(rchidiaconus) with pen-flourishing at the beginning of 'De officio archidiaconi et eius visitacione tractatus'., Constitutiones of bishop Peter Quivil (index Peter Quinil) at the 1287 Exeter Synod (ff. 4-48v), 'Summula Sinodi' (ff. 49-58v), 'De officio archidiaconi et eius visitacione tractatus' (ff. 59-70), 'Constitutio de pastore in viduatam ecclesiam (ff. 70v-71)

and 77 are former pastedowns. ff. 71v-[73a] are ruled leaves originally unwritten. ff. 1-3v and ff. 74-77 are medieval parchment quires with later additions. Catchwords written horizontally. Leaf signatures. Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in red