• Initial incorporating further letters ('Si virtutum') with knotwork and foliate motifs, followed by display script, at the beginning of Ambrose's 'De poenitentia'. In the outer margin, an ownership inscription of the late 12th or early 13th century in a decorated triangular frame with a mask. The same or a near contemporary hand also added the rubric to the text. In the margin are also notes in the hand of Heinrich Schupp, abbot of the Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary and St Nicholas in Arnstein in the 16th century., De officiis ministrorum; Sermo de resurrectione domini; De poenitentia

initials. Rubrics in red. De officiis ministrorum; Sermo de resurrectione domini; De poenitentia Parts 1 and 2 were together by the 12th century: in part 1, the scribe/illuminator of part 2 added red initials/letters (ff. 66v, 131v), replaced some text

• Coloured initials., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Coloured initials in the litany., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Historiated initial with squatting atlantis holding the initial with a woman emerging from her coffin, and in the lower margin a quire signature., Dialogues

parchment flyleaf. 2 miniatures of standing figures in brown ink with orange, one on a green ground (ff. 18v, 61). 1 large historiated initial in brown ink, with green and orange (f. 2). 3 small historiated initials in red or

• Historiated initial 'Q' with a standing saint holding a book., Dialogues

parchment flyleaf. 2 miniatures of standing figures in brown ink with orange, one on a green ground (ff. 18v, 61). 1 large historiated initial in brown ink, with green and orange (f. 2). 3 small historiated initials in red or

• null, Dialogues

flyleaf. 2 miniatures of standing figures in brown ink with orange, one on a green ground (ff. 18v, 61). 1 large historiated initial in brown ink, with green and orange (f. 2). 3 small historiated initials in red or brown

• Coloured initials, and added 12th-century decorated initial 'B'(eatus), at the beginning of the Psalter., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Coloured initials and musical notation of Anglo-Saxon neumes at the beginning of Psalm 50., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Text page with coloured initials., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Coloured initials and display script., Miscellany, including the 'Tribal Hidage', or assessment list, Aelfric's treatise on Latin grammar, compotus notes, glossary material, and De initio creaturae (ff.128v-129), dated 1034

William Fleetwood [Fletewoode] (b. c.1525, d.1594), lawyer and antiquary: erased inscription of his name (ff. 3*verso and f. 129v); no. 1 of the manuscripts at Missenden abbey, the home of the Fleetwood family: see Ker 1957.18th-century ? inscription '111 A

• Calendar page for February, with coloured letters., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Calendar page for April, with coloured letters., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Text page with coloured initials., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

1918). Initials in blue, red, green, and brown. Decorated line-fillers in brown. Unfinished, with spaces left for initials, for Psalm 1 filled in with an added puzzle initial and rubrics in brown and red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany

• Text page of a land-based tax assessment document., Miscellany, including the 'Tribal Hidage', or assessment list, Aelfric's treatise on Latin grammar, compotus notes, glossary material, and De initio creaturae (ff.128v-129), dated 1034

William Fleetwood [Fletewoode] (b. c.1525, d.1594), lawyer and antiquary: erased inscription of his name (ff. 3*verso and f. 129v); no. 1 of the manuscripts at Missenden abbey, the home of the Fleetwood family: see Ker 1957.18th-century ? inscription '111 A

• Drawing of a head in ink, perhaps an author portrait, or a portrait of Gregory or Augustine of Canterbury, who are mentioned in the hymn above., 2 noted Easter hymns, prayers, part of the Office of Augustine of Canterbury: 'Chorus nove Hierusalem' (f. 1) and 'Te lucis auctor' (f. 1v); rhymed Office for Augustine of Canterbury (ff. 67-68v erased, 68v-69); Hymn to Gregory the Great (f. 69v)

(f . 69v). 2 noted Easter hymns, prayers, part of the Office of Augustine of Canterbury: 'Chorus nove Hierusalem' (f. 1) and 'Te lucis auctor' (f. 1v); rhymed Office for Augustine of Canterbury (ff. 67-68v erased, 68v-69); Hymn to Gregory

• Marginal image of a fish., Gospel lectionary

in red, often with a yellow wash, one extending into the margin (f. 1), one with an animal head (f. 213). Large decorated initials, in red and yellow, or red, black, and yellow, some zoomorphic or anthropomorphic (birds or hands)

• Illuminated initial 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of Psalm 1., Psalter, including material for determining hours of daylight, a calendar, Canticles and hymns, and creed (ff. 139v-141v), litany and prayers

'B'(eatus) at the beginning of Psalm 1. Musical notation on four-line red staves, in the office for Catherine (ff. 108-109). Large initial with partial border in colours and gold, at the beginning of Psalm 1 (f. 8). Large puzzle intial

• Decorated initial 'I'(initum) with interlace patterns at the beginning of Mark., Gospels (ff. 1-139) and capitulare evangeliorum (ff. 139v-150)

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley '13 die mensis Augusti, A.D. 1724.' (f. 1). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime

• Decorated initial 'M'(agnus) at the beginning of book 1 of Augustine's Confessiones., Confessiones (index Confessions)

the beginning of book 1 of Augustine's Confessiones. Running headers. Signe de renvoi (f. 46), see Ker 1976. Large initials in red or green with penwork decoration in the same and occasionally in the alternate colour, some with reserved designs.

• White vine initial 'N'(el) and full border at the beginning of the text., Trionfi (index Triumphs)

added vertically in a fine 15th-century humanistic hand (f. 26v).Added verses in Italian, 15th century 'Neltempo cherinova emie sospiri...' (f. 1), 'Amor mipuo tenere...' (f. 41).Added inscriptions in Latin, 15th century (f. 41r-v).Stamped arms (trimmed) in lower border, ?16th century