• Detail of a miniature of a quail., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Detail of a miniature of a quail. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two East Anglian Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole

• Text page at the end of the manuscript., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Text page at the end of the manuscript. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two East Anglian Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms.

• Miniature of a lizard, and a miniature of a man being slain by salamanders., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Miniature of a lizard, and a miniature of a man being slain by salamanders. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two East Anglian Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham

• Detail of a miniature of a lizard., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Detail of a miniature of a lizard. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two East Anglian Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole

• Detail of a miniature of a man being slain by salamanders., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Detail of a miniature of a man being slain by salamanders. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two East Anglian Picture Books : A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary

• Inscription recording that Richard of Reading had the book bound in Oxford, and that it belonged to the Benedictine abbey of St. Mary, Reading: 'Istu[m] libru[m] oxon[ie] fecit Ricardus de Redyngi[e] ligari que[m] qui alienaverit / a monasterio Redyngie fu[n]dato i[n] honore[m] gloriose virginis Marie et / beato[rum] ap[osto]lo[rum] petri et pauli Iohannis atque Iacobi vel in eo fraude[m] / fec[er]it anathema sit.', Digestum Vetus, with pre-Accursian glosses

apparatus ad Digestum of Hugolinus-Azo, and Azo, Proemium Degesti Veteris (f. 2v), 1st half of the 13th century.Added draft of a concord between the executors of 'Roger de Hyda miles' and Richard, Rogers's son, 13th century (f.1).William of Newenham: partially

• Initial 'S'(anctam) with penwork decoration., Sermons (61)

lower margin of f. 21 is cut; it may have contained an ownership inscription.Erased inscriptions ff. 1v, 13. Quire marks in part 1 (in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quire).Threaded

• Initials 'P'(rima), 'Q'(uatuor), 'N'(on), 'T'(abernaculum) with penwork decoration., Liber Exceptionum, Part II (ff. 1-55v); sermons, and other texts (see Notes for contents)

for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initials Richardof Saint-Victor Rochester England, S.

• Detail of a miniature of two deer and a snake. According to the text, the stag, when old, draws serpents from their holes with its breath and eats them, and its strength is renewed., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Detail of a miniature of two deer and a snake. According to the text, the stag, when old, draws serpents from their holes with its breath and eats them, and its strength is renewed. A direct copy of the Worksop

• Miniature of two deer and a snake. According to the text, the stag, when old, draws serpents from their holes with its breath and eats them, and its strength is renewed., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Miniature of two deer and a snake. According to the text, the stag, when old, draws serpents from their holes with its breath and eats them, and its strength is renewed. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York,

• Miniature of a tiger, distracted from the capture of its cub by its own reflection in a mirror., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Miniature of a tiger, distracted from the capture of its cub by its own reflection in a mirror. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two East Anglian Picture Books : A

• Detail of miniature of lions breathing life into their cubs, at the beginning of the entry 'De natura leonis'., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Detail of miniature of lions breathing life into their cubs, at the beginning of the entry 'De natura leonis'. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two East Anglian Picture Books :

• Detail of a decorated initial 'B'(estiarum) and a miniature of lions breathing life into their cubs, at the beginning of the entry 'De natura leonis'., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Detail of a decorated initial 'B'(estiarum) and a miniature of lions breathing life into their cubs, at the beginning of the entry 'De natura leonis'. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see

• Decorated initial 'M'(ulierem) at the beginning of Proverbs 31:10. In the upper margin a librarian has marked it with a title., Commentary on Proverbs, Letter to Ecgberht of York (ff. 89-97)

of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initial Written by two scribes, including Symeon of Durham Symeon

• Initial 'P'(arabolae) with foliate decoration., Commentary on Proverbs, Letter to Ecgberht of York (ff. 89-97)

of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initial Written by two scribes, including Symeon of Durham Symeon

• Decorated initial 'P'(arabolae) at the beginning of the commentary on Proverbs 10., Commentary on Proverbs, Letter to Ecgberht of York (ff. 89-97)

of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Decorated initial Written by two scribes, including Symeon of Durham Symeon

• Miniature of a basilisk and two victims of its murderous gaze, a man and a ermine or ferret, and a miniature of a regulus., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Miniature of a basilisk and two victims of its murderous gaze, a man and a ermine or ferret, and a miniature of a regulus. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two

• Detail of a miniature of a basilisk and two victims of its murderous gaze, a man and a ermine or ferret., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Detail of a miniature of a basilisk and two victims of its murderous gaze, a man and a ermine or ferret. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two East Anglian Picture

• Decorated initial 'B'(estiarum) and a miniature of lions breathing life into their cubs, at the beginning of the entry 'De natura leonis'., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

of lions breathing life into their cubs, at the beginning of the entry 'De natura leonis'. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two East Anglian Picture Books : A Facsimile

• Miniature of a hunter chasing a beaver, who bites off his testicles in order to thwart the hunter., Bestiary, and various theological texts, e.g., Isidore of Seville, Imago Mundi

Miniature of a hunter chasing a beaver, who bites off his testicles in order to thwart the hunter. A direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see ~Two East Anglian Picture Books : A