• Decorated initial with animal heads and interlace., The Pauline and Catholic Epistles (except III John and Jude), and Revelation, imperfect

of Hincmar (845-882) according to Bischoff.List of contents in pen, pasted onto f. [iii]. 1 full-page miniature in ink and colours (f. 71v). Large initial in brown and colours, with interlace and geometric patterns and often animal head decoration or

• Decorated initial 'C'(onticuere)., Opera (Works)

collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘11 die Martij, A.D. 1723/4’ (f. 1). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime

• Drawing of Alexander the Great holding an orb and sceptre, with Philosophy holding a pot and brush, preceding the Historia Alexandri Magni., Historia Alexandri Magni; Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de situ Indiae; Epistolae Alexandri; Recapitulatio

letters between Alexander and Dindimus, king of the Brahmins) (ff. 78v-94v);'Parva recapitulatio de eodem Alexandro et de suis' (ff. 94v-98). 1 full-page ink drawing in colours preceding the text (f. 1v). Initials in green, some with penwork decoration in red,

• Decorated initial 'S'(emper) with display script, at the beginning of the Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de situ Indiae., Historia Alexandri Magni; Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de situ Indiae; Epistolae Alexandri; Recapitulatio

letters between Alexander and Dindimus, king of the Brahmins) (ff. 78v-94v);'Parva recapitulatio de eodem Alexandro et de suis' (ff. 94v-98). 1 full-page ink drawing in colours preceding the text (f. 1v). Initials in green, some with penwork decoration in red,

• Canon table with columns surmounted by foliate capitals., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Miniature of Mark, quill in hand, seated at a lecturn., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Canon table with columns surmounted by foliate capitals., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Canon table with columns surmounted by foliate capitals., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Canon table with columns surmounted by foliate capitals., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Canon table with columns surmounted by foliate capitals., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Canon table with columns surmounted by foliate capitals., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Canon table with columns surmounted by foliate capitals., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Canon table with columns surmounted by foliate capitals., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Canon table with columns surmounted by foliate capitals., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Canon table with columns surmounted by foliate capitals., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Canon table with columns surmounted by foliate capitals., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Incipit page of Mark's Gospel with an illuminated initial, 'I'(nitium), framed by an acanthus border., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Text in silver on a purple ground, framed by an acanthus border., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Miniature of Luke, quill in hand, seated at a lecturn., Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels') with prologue, argumentum, and the Capitulare evangelorum

and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘28 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

• Coloured initials: 'M'(entibus), 'G'(loria), 'P(ater)., Collectar and Hymnal (the 'Leofric Collectar'), imperfect at the end

Coloured initials: 'M'(entibus), 'G'(loria), 'P(ater). Musical notation: Anglo-Saxon neumes (with ~litterae significativae~), England (Exeter), c. 1050-1072The scribe of ff. 194-98 also wrote most of Harley 863.The collects are based on Liege texts, and give prominence to Lambert: see discussion