• 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:

• Decorated initial 'P'(receptis), and the Pinelli number '7899' in the upper left-hand corner., Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v)

Decorated initial 'P'(receptis), and the Pinelli number '7899' in the upper left-hand corner. 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

• Decorated initials 'N'(eminem) and 'R'(ex); the lower margin with a note stating that from the creation of the world (5199 years before the birth of Christ) to the present is 6,434 years., Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v)

creation of the world (5199 years before the birth of Christ) to the present is 6,434 years. 1 large puzzle initial (f. 1). Small initials alternately blue with red penwork decoration, or vice versa. Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and

• Decorated initial 'P'(rima), at the beginning of Horace's Epistolae., Odes (ff. 3-42), Epodes (ff. 42-50), Carmen saeculare (ff. 50-51), Ars poetica (ff. 51-57), Epistolae (ff. 57-76), Sermones (index Satires) (ff. 76-101v)

Decorated initial 'P'(rima), at the beginning of Horace's Epistolae. Large and small initials alternately red with blue flourishing (as far as f. 25v), or vice versa; those on ff. 3 and 76 with penwork in both colours. Line-fillers. Odes

• Decorated initial 'Q'(ui), at the beginning of Horace's Sermones., Odes (ff. 3-42), Epodes (ff. 42-50), Carmen saeculare (ff. 50-51), Ars poetica (ff. 51-57), Epistolae (ff. 57-76), Sermones (index Satires) (ff. 76-101v)

Decorated initial 'Q'(ui), at the beginning of Horace's Sermones. Large and small initials alternately red with blue flourishing (as far as f. 25v), or vice versa; those on ff. 3 and 76 with penwork in both colours. Line-fillers. Odes

• 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

• Pen-flourished initial 'F'(ides) at the beginning of the first book with the ownership inscription of Worcester Cathedral Priory., Summa aurea (Summa super sententias Petri Lombardi) with an imperfect table of rubrics (ff. 200 r-v)

'Fides est rerum sperandarum argumentum'. 3 puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours (ff. 1, 22, 160). Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing and in blue with red pen-flourishing. Plain initials in red. Rubrics in

• Bas-de-page scene of a blue-faced grotesque, hunched, with a man standing on his shoulders, and in the upper margin, a man painted around a textual addtion so that he appears to be holding it, from Book 1 of the Decretals., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

margin, a man painted around a textual addtion so that he appears to be holding it, from Book 1 of the Decretals. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with

• Historiated illuminated initial 'L'(iber) at the beginning of Matthew, with an evangelist portrait of a seated Matthew writing., Bible, with table of readings (ff. 1-2v), Calendar for Dominican use (ff. 3v-4v), Jerome's prefatory letters (ff. 5-7v), and the Interpretationes nominum Hebreorum (ff. 443-483)

Historiated illuminated initial 'L'(iber) at the beginning of Matthew, with an evangelist portrait of a seated Matthew writing. 2 historiated initials in colours on a gold background at the beginning of Proverbs and Matthew (ff. 219, 353). Decorated initial

• Decorated initials 'P'(aulus) at the beginning of Titus and of Philemon., Bible, with table of readings (ff. 1-2v), Calendar for Dominican use (ff. 3v-4v), Jerome's prefatory letters (ff. 5-7v), and the Interpretationes nominum Hebreorum (ff. 443-483)

Decorated initials 'P'(aulus) at the beginning of Titus and of Philemon. 2 historiated initials in colours on a gold background at the beginning of Proverbs and Matthew (ff. 219, 353). Decorated initial in colours on a gold background at

• Five decorated initial 'D's, with figurative borders and a bas-de-page scene of a castle flanked by grotesques., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Table of contents, for the Decretals, with five decorated initial 'D's, with decorated borders, including mermaids and mermen., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Detail of the bottom border of the folio with a bas-de-page scene of a messenger delivering a letter to a man seated at a desk., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a man attempting to invade a castle being killed by one of the defenders., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Bas-de-page scene of two ships engaged in a battle., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a man on stilts, another man, a woman and a bird., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Detail of a painting of a seated rabbit with a scroll in its mouth., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Bas-de-page scene of a man shooting at a bird, with an owl at the top of the tree., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a mermaid., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

century (f. 1v).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Decretales' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1059' (f. 1), acquired by the Upper Library at Westminster after the inventory of 1542; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix