• 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

• 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

• Title and initial in display capitals at the beginning of Cicero 'Orationes in Catilinam'., Works, including 'Epistolae ad Familiares' (ff. 1v-51v), 'Philippics' (index Philippicae) (ff. 71-113), 'Ciceronis in Sallustium et invicem invectivae' (ff. 113-114v), 'Orationes in Catilinam' (ff. 115-125v), 'In Verrem actio II' (ff. 159v-164v), and 'De officiis' (ff. 164v-180')

the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley ‘20 die mensis Octobris, A.D. 1725’ (f. 1); inscribed 'Oxford B.H.' (f. 1). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during

• Coloured initials., Frontinus's 'Strategemata', Books 1-4, imperfect at the beginning and the end (ff. 1-50v), Eutropius's 'Breviarium ab urbe condita', Books 1-10 (ff. 55v-109)

Coloured initials. This copy of 'Strategemata' belongs to the Anglo-Norman family, which also includes Cambridge, Peterhouse, 252.iii (11th-12th century, northern France) and Oxford, Lincoln College, lat. 100 (written by William at Malmesbury c. 1125), according to unpublished notes of

• 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

• Puzzle initial 'V'(oluntas) and flourished border at the beginning of the Similitudines Anselmi., Similitudines Anselmi, with table of chapters

1806), antiquary and topographer (inscribed in pencil ‘Archbishop Anselm’s Similitudes, Compleat/Wrote about Anno Domini 1400 in the Court Hand’, f. 1); for similar notations see Burney 39, 288, 307 (?), 320, 323, and Additional 18601.Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817),

• 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)

• Decorated initial 'I'(n illo tempore) with interlace and foliate motifs., Homiliary, temporal (from Septuagesima to Easter Eve) (index Homiliae). At the end are added in a 12th-century hand, two pieces in verse, 'De Corpore et Sanguine Domini', beginning, 'Mysterio magno legali vescimur agno' (f. 170v), and 'Crimina deploret sua sic peccator et oret', beginning, 'Quo pius et pietas Deus a te pulsus abibo' (f. 171).

flyleaves, are from a 13th-century manuscript of the Historia Scholastica of Petrus Comestor. ff. 3, 4 should follow f. 176. 1 large initial in brown ink with interlace and foliate motifs (f. 5). Initials in red, some large, some small.

• 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

• Zoomorphic initial 'Q'(uid) formed by two dragons biting each other's tails, at the beginning of homily 9 in the second book of Gregory the Great's Homilies on Ezekiel., Homilies on Ezekiel

Feb 1804' in ink, f. 3, upper margin, and initials 'TBR', on the Topham bookplate, and inscription: 'Ent d/, f. 1; for a similar signature (‘Thomas Bryan Richards, 2 May 1801’), note, and inscription 'Entd/ 291' see Burney 321, f.

• Zoomorphic initial 'Q'(uid) formed by two dragons biting each other's tails, at the beginning of homily 9 in the second book of Gregory the Great's Homilies on Ezekiel., Homilies on Ezekiel

Feb 1804' in ink, f. 3, upper margin, and initials 'TBR', on the Topham bookplate, and inscription: 'Ent d/, f. 1; for a similar signature (‘Thomas Bryan Richards, 2 May 1801’), note, and inscription 'Entd/ 291' see Burney 321, f.