• Iluminated initial 'I'(n) decorated with foliate and geometric patterns, and a full border with roundels in which archers shoot at 'white lions' or dogs, and in a half-circle on the right border, a seated king with a sword., Decretum; collections of Alexander III's decretals, with marginal glosses

half-circle on the right border, a seated king with a sword. 1 large initial with a full border in colours and gold with foliage patterns, animals and figures (f. 1). 38 large foliate 'Channel-style' initials with white lions, dragons, hybrid

• Illuminated 'Channel-style' foliate initial 'H' with naked men 'white lions' or dogs, and animal head terminations., Decretum; collections of Alexander III's decretals, with marginal glosses

with naked men 'white lions' or dogs, and animal head terminations. 1 large initial with a full border in colours and gold with foliage patterns, animals and figures (f. 1). 38 large foliate 'Channel-style' initials with white lions, dragons, hybrid

• Illuminated initial 'I'(n), in the form of a hybrid creature, with a man's head and body and an winged and serpentine lower half, with paws, holding a snake in its mouth., Decretum; collections of Alexander III's decretals, with marginal glosses

serpentine lower half, with paws, holding a snake in its mouth. 1 large initial with a full border in colours and gold with foliage patterns, animals and figures (f. 1). 38 large foliate 'Channel-style' initials with white lions, dragons, hybrid

• Decorated initials 'B'(eato) and 'N'(ovum) with interlace at the beginning of Jerome's letter to Pope Damasus., Gospels, with the Epistle to Damasus, Canon tables, and prefaces, imperfect

text, and of Matthew, Mark, and John (ff. 1, 8, 46, 79). 4 smaller initials in yellow, orange, brown and sometimes blue, one with zoomorphic features, at the beginning of prefaces (ff. 1, 2v, 44v, 77v). Highlighing of letters in

• Detail of marginal figure in the right border, of a seated king with a sword within an illuminated half-circle., Decretum; collections of Alexander III's decretals, with marginal glosses

of a seated king with a sword within an illuminated half-circle. 1 large initial with a full border in colours and gold with foliage patterns, animals and figures (f. 1). 38 large foliate 'Channel-style' initials with white lions, dragons, hybrid

• Detail of illuminated initial 'I'(n) decorated with foliate and geometric patterns., Decretum; collections of Alexander III's decretals, with marginal glosses

Detail of illuminated initial 'I'(n) decorated with foliate and geometric patterns. 1 large initial with a full border in colours and gold with foliage patterns, animals and figures (f. 1). 38 large foliate 'Channel-style' initials with white lions, dragons, hybrid

• Illuminated 'Channel-style' foliate initial 'H' with naked men 'white lions' or dogs, and animal head terminations., Decretum; collections of Alexander III's decretals, with marginal glosses

with naked men 'white lions' or dogs, and animal head terminations. 1 large initial with a full border in colours and gold with foliage patterns, animals and figures (f. 1). 38 large foliate 'Channel-style' initials with white lions, dragons, hybrid

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'I'(n), in the form of a hybrid creature, with a man's head and body and an winged and serpentine lower half, with paws, holding a snake in its mouth., Decretum; collections of Alexander III's decretals, with marginal glosses

serpentine lower half, with paws, holding a snake in its mouth. 1 large initial with a full border in colours and gold with foliage patterns, animals and figures (f. 1). 38 large foliate 'Channel-style' initials with white lions, dragons, hybrid

• Detail of the illuminated initial 'I'(n), in the form of a hybrid creature, with a man's head and body and an winged and serpentine lower half, with paws, holding a snake in its mouth., Decretum; collections of Alexander III's decretals, with marginal glosses

serpentine lower half, with paws, holding a snake in its mouth. 1 large initial with a full border in colours and gold with foliage patterns, animals and figures (f. 1). 38 large foliate 'Channel-style' initials with white lions, dragons, hybrid

• Illuminated initials 'P'(linius) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the Vita Plini Secundi and letter 11., Vita Plinii, epistola 11; Historia naturalis (index Natural history) (books 1-18), imperfect

in colours, many with heads, masks, dragons, hybrids, and/or animals, including a bird and a dog, most with gold (ff. 1, 2, 22v, 26v, 32, 38, 45v, 56, 66, 85v, 94v, 107, 113, 118v, 124v, 130v, 141v). In several instances

• Illuminated zoomorphic initial 'S'(equitur) made up of a hybrid creature with a bird or dragon's (?) body and a horned human head, at the beginning of book 10 of Pliny's Historia naturalis., Vita Plinii, epistola 11; Historia naturalis (index Natural history) (books 1-18), imperfect

in colours, many with heads, masks, dragons, hybrids, and/or animals, including a bird and a dog, most with gold (ff. 1, 2, 22v, 26v, 32, 38, 45v, 56, 66, 85v, 94v, 107, 113, 118v, 124v, 130v, 141v). In several instances

• Puzzle initial 'C'(irca) with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of Maurice of Ireland's Distinctiones., Distinctiones

Ireland's Distinctiones. Another leaf from the calendar of Part 1 is Sloane 1044 f. 78. 1 large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue and red (f. 5). 1 small initial in red with blue pen-flourishing (f.

• Detail of illuminated initial with a animal head., Decretum; collections of Alexander III's decretals, with marginal glosses

Detail of illuminated initial with a animal head. 1 large initial with a full border in colours and gold with foliage patterns, animals and figures (f. 1). 38 large foliate 'Channel-style' initials with white lions, dragons, hybrid creatures, or human

• Detail of illuminated initial with a hybrid creature., Decretum; collections of Alexander III's decretals, with marginal glosses

Detail of illuminated initial with a hybrid creature. 1 large initial with a full border in colours and gold with foliage patterns, animals and figures (f. 1). 38 large foliate 'Channel-style' initials with white lions, dragons, hybrid creatures, or human

• Detail of an inhabited initial 'P'(aulus) with white lions interlaced with a foliate scroll and an attached portrait of Peter Lombard writing the first words of his commentary, 'hunc epistola[m] / s/cribit / ap[osto]l[us]s roma/nos'., Pauline Epistles, with the commentary of Peter Lombard

indicating the length of a citation.Catchwords and bifolium signatures. 3 initials with foliate and/or zoomorphic decoration (f. 3, 170), including 1 with an author portrait attached to the initial (f. 4), in colours and gold, at the beginning of Peter

• Decorated initial and a decorated line dividing two books., Odyssey, with scholia

Greek (ff. 1, 150v; see Summary Catalogue 1999; Pontani 2005).Andreas Chrysoberges, brother of Maximos: his inscription in Greek (f. 150v; see Summary Catalogue 1999; Pontani 2005).Manuel Chrysoloras (d. 1415): possible owned, his title in Greek and Latin (ff. 1, 2,

• Coloured initials., Commentary on Phocas's Ars de nomine et verbo; Etymologiae and De nominibus legis et evangelii sive Alegoriae

blue, red, green and brown (e. g., ff. 1, 2v). Smaller initials in blue or green, some with penwork decoration in red, or in red, some with penwork decoration in green. 1 full-page diagram in colours (f. 107v), and 2

• Detail of a circular diagram representing a map of the world (a so-called 'T-O' map)., Commentary on Phocas's Ars de nomine et verbo; Etymologiae and De nominibus legis et evangelii sive Alegoriae

blue, red, green and brown (e. g., ff. 1, 2v). Smaller initials in blue or green, some with penwork decoration in red, or in red, some with penwork decoration in green. 1 full-page diagram in colours (f. 107v), and 2

• Historiated initial 'D'(omino) of Isidore, at the beginning of the prefatory letter from Isidore of Seville to Braulio, bishop of Saragossa., Commentary on Phocas's Ars de nomine et verbo; Etymologiae and De nominibus legis et evangelii sive Alegoriae

blue, red, green and brown (e. g., ff. 1, 2v). Smaller initials in blue or green, some with penwork decoration in red, or in red, some with penwork decoration in green. 1 full-page diagram in colours (f. 107v), and 2

• Decorated initials 'M'(undus) and 'A'(thomos) at the beginning of sections concerning the physical world, starting with a passage on the world, and followed by one on atoms., Commentary on Phocas's Ars de nomine et verbo; Etymologiae and De nominibus legis et evangelii sive Alegoriae

blue, red, green and brown (e. g., ff. 1, 2v). Smaller initials in blue or green, some with penwork decoration in red, or in red, some with penwork decoration in green. 1 full-page diagram in colours (f. 107v), and 2