• Decorated initial 'R'(emedium), in the Liber de venenis., Miscellany, including the Liber de venenis (ff. 1- 32)

Decorated initial 'R'(emedium), in the Liber de venenis. 1 large initial in red with pen-flourishing in red and brown (f. 1). Large initials in plain red or blue some with penwork decoration or pen-flourishing in blue or red, some decorated

• Puzzle initial on the first page of text, from the book of Job, with Arundel and Lumley ownership signatures., Bible (Job to Revelation)

and Lumley ownership signatures. Includes the books from Job to Revelation. The first volume is Royal 1 E VII. The text corrected or emended by a Christ Church scribe; other manuscripts attributed to him are: Cambridge, Trinity College, B. 1.17

• Ownership inscription of a Franciscan convent, Canterbury, reading 'Iste liber est de communitate fr[atru]m minorum Cantuarie', and a 16th-century note describing the manuscript as the first volume of a Bible in 8 volumes, and referring to the set of books, now Royal 3 E I-V, VII-VIII, reading 'In this Bible withe a glosse and Com[m]entairies are 8 volumes and / in them are contayned Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numeri, / Deuteronomie, Esaye, Jeremye, Ezachiel, Daniel, Job, Psalmi / Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Cantica, Sapientia, Ecclesiasticus, Osee, / Joel, Amos, abdias, Jonas, Micheas, Nahum, Abacuc, Sophonias, / Aggeus, Zacharye, Malachye, Machabees, Matheum, Marc, / Luke, John, Act. Apost., Epist. Ad Romanos 1, ad Cotinth. 2, ad Galat. 1,/ ad Ephes. 1, ad Philipp. 1, ad Colocess. 1, ad Thessal 2, ad Thimoth 2., /ad Titu[m] 1, ad Philemonem 1, ad Hebreos 1, Jacobi 1, Petri 2, Joh[ann]is 3, / Juda 1, Apocalipse. Mss these are bounde in redde lether prynted./ Memorandum that in an other sute of the same order bounde in white lether in / 7 volumes you maye supplye yor wante of these followinge Josue, Judic. / Esdras, Ruth, Tobias, Hester. (added) ved. 3 E I-VIII./ So you wante in bothe only the bookes of Kinges and Chronicles. / Wherefore I woulde wishe yt bothe these fortes be kepte whollye and entierely / togither, that the one maye supplie / the wante of the other.', Genesis and Exodus, with the Glossa ordinaria

1, ad Cotinth. 2, ad Galat. 1,/ ad Ephes. 1, ad Philipp. 1, ad Colocess. 1, ad Thessal 2, ad Thimoth 2., /ad Titu[m] 1, ad Philemonem 1, ad Hebreos 1, Jacobi 1, Petri 2, Joh[ann]is 3, / Juda

• null, Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v)

1 large puzzle initial (f. 1). Small initials alternately blue with red penwork decoration, or vice versa. Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v) ? Written in or shortly before 1235:

• null, Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v)

1 large puzzle initial (f. 1). Small initials alternately blue with red penwork decoration, or vice versa. Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v) ? Written in or shortly before 1235:

• Detail of an historiated initial 'A'(lpha) of a teacher giving a lecture to his students, at the beginning of book 1., Summa super titulis Decretalium

teacher giving a lecture to his students, at the beginning of book 1. Catchwords and bifolium signatures. Running titles. Instructions for book numbers and rubrics. 1 historiated (f. 1) and 3 foliate (ff. 81, 153v, 225, 264) initials in colours

• Puzzle initial 'P'(rofessores) with foliate penwork decoration, at the beginning of Edward Grim's Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis, with the ink-stamp of the Royal Society in the lower margin., Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis; epistolae, and related texts, imperfect

a larger volume: foliated from ff. 145-190 in a 16th-century (?) hand. 1 puzzle initial in red and blue with red and blue foliate penwork decoration (f. 1). Large initials in red or blue, many with penwork decoration in the

• Decorated initials 'I'(nter), 'R'(ex), and 'D'(esiderio), and later, possibly seventeenth-century marginal notations., Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis; epistolae, and related texts, imperfect

a larger volume: foliated from ff. 145-190 in a 16th-century (?) hand. 1 puzzle initial in red and blue with red and blue foliate penwork decoration (f. 1). Large initials in red or blue, many with penwork decoration in the

• Puzzle initial 'P'(rofessores) with foliate penwork decoration, at the beginning of Edward Grim's Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis., Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis; epistolae, and related texts, imperfect

a larger volume: foliated from ff. 145-190 in a 16th-century (?) hand. 1 puzzle initial in red and blue with red and blue foliate penwork decoration (f. 1). Large initials in red or blue, many with penwork decoration in the

• Decorated initials 'I'(nter), 'R'(ex), and 'D'(esiderio)., Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis; epistolae, and related texts, imperfect

a larger volume: foliated from ff. 145-190 in a 16th-century (?) hand. 1 puzzle initial in red and blue with red and blue foliate penwork decoration (f. 1). Large initials in red or blue, many with penwork decoration in the

• Historiated initial 'H'(ec) of Moses and the Israelites passing through the Red Sea, at the beginning of Exodus., Genesis and Exodus, with the Glossa ordinaria

1, ad Cotinth. 2, ad Galat. 1,/ ad Ephes. 1, ad Philipp. 1, ad Colocess. 1, ad Thessal 2, ad Thimoth 2., /ad Titu[m] 1, ad Philemonem 1, ad Hebreos 1, Jacobi 1, Petri 2, Joh[ann]is 3, / Juda

• Historiated initial 'I'(n principio) of the Days of Creation, at the beginning of Genesis., Genesis and Exodus, with the Glossa ordinaria

1, ad Cotinth. 2, ad Galat. 1,/ ad Ephes. 1, ad Philipp. 1, ad Colocess. 1, ad Thessal 2, ad Thimoth 2., /ad Titu[m] 1, ad Philemonem 1, ad Hebreos 1, Jacobi 1, Petri 2, Joh[ann]is 3, / Juda

• Foliate initial 'C'(umque) at the beginning of the prologue., Genesis and Exodus, with the Glossa ordinaria

1, ad Cotinth. 2, ad Galat. 1,/ ad Ephes. 1, ad Philipp. 1, ad Colocess. 1, ad Thessal 2, ad Thimoth 2., /ad Titu[m] 1, ad Philemonem 1, ad Hebreos 1, Jacobi 1, Petri 2, Joh[ann]is 3, / Juda

• Detail of an historiated initial 'H'(ec) of God giving the Tablets of the Law to Moses, at the beginning of Exodus., Genesis and Exodus, with the Glossa ordinaria

Epist. Ad Romanos 1, ad Corinth. 2, ad Galat. 1,/ ad Ephes. 1, ad Philipp 1, ad Coloss. 1, ad Thessal 2, / ad Thimoth 2., ad Titum 1, ad Philem. 1, ad Hebreos / 1, Jacobi 1, Petri 2,

• Detail of an historiated initial 'H'(ec) of God giving the Tablets of the Law to Moses with a running title 'Exodus' and an instruction for the running title, at the beginning of Exodus., Genesis and Exodus, with the Glossa ordinaria

Epist. Ad Romanos 1, ad Corinth. 2, ad Galat. 1,/ ad Ephes. 1, ad Philipp 1, ad Coloss. 1, ad Thessal 2, / ad Thimoth 2., ad Titum 1, ad Philem. 1, ad Hebreos / 1, Jacobi 1, Petri 2,

• Text page in Genesis., Genesis and Exodus, with the Glossa ordinaria

Epist. Ad Romanos 1, ad Corinth. 2, ad Galat. 1,/ ad Ephes. 1, ad Philipp 1, ad Coloss. 1, ad Thessal 2, / ad Thimoth 2., ad Titum 1, ad Philem. 1, ad Hebreos / 1, Jacobi 1, Petri 2,

• Historiated initial 'I'(n principio) with eight roundels, of the Days of Creation and the Crucifixion, with a full bar border containing birds and animals, at the beginning of Genesis., Genesis and Exodus, with the Glossa ordinaria

Epist. Ad Romanos 1, ad Corinth. 2, ad Galat. 1,/ ad Ephes. 1, ad Philipp 1, ad Coloss. 1, ad Thessal 2, / ad Thimoth 2., ad Titum 1, ad Philem. 1, ad Hebreos / 1, Jacobi 1, Petri 2,

• Diagram of the orbs of the planets surrounding the earth ('globus terre'), with the sphere of the fixed stars at the periphery, identified by the names of the zodiacal signs; a thread is attached to the centre of the diagram., Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis

37, 40v, 43v (x2), 48v, 50v, 53v). 1 initial in red and green with penwork decoration (f. 1).1 initial in red (f. 41). 1 initial in brown with some red (f. 1). Simple initials in brown. Apart from the

• Illuminated initial 'H'(odie) with an animal mask, a bird and foliate motifs, at the beginning of the book., Sermons, beginning, 'Hodie nobis dominus patrem cum filiis duobus vocavit'

might have been copied from an exemplar from Durham, with an initial in the style of the so-called 'Martyrology scribe.'f. 1 is a cancelled first leaf with various erasures, prefixed as a flyleaf. At f. 30v a short passage is

• Illuminated initial 'C'(allidi) with foliate motifs., Sermons, beginning, 'Hodie nobis dominus patrem cum filiis duobus vocavit'

might have been copied from an exemplar from Durham, with an initial in the style of the so-called 'Martyrology scribe.'f. 1 is a cancelled first leaf with various erasures, prefixed as a flyleaf. At f. 30v a short passage is