• Miniature of Adam and Eve in paradise, with a trompe l'oeil border with a portrait of Henry VIII with his royal arms, and illuminated initial 'I'(n principio), at the beginning of Genesis., Bible

Volume one of two: vol. II is Royal MS 1 C VI.Quire signatures, instructions for rubricator. Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing, 1 initial with two-sided pen-flourished border (f. 1). Small initials in red or blue. Running titles

• Detail of a miniature of Adam and Eve in paradise, at the beginning of Genesis., Bible

Volume one of two: vol. II is Royal MS 1 C VI.Quire signatures, instructions for rubricator. Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing, 1 initial with two-sided pen-flourished border (f. 1). Small initials in red or blue. Running titles

• Historiated ~bas-de-page~ in colours and gold, of two saints in quatrefoils flanking a foliate motif framed within a patterned border (at centre of image)., Cutting from a liturgical manuscript

to its old folio number. To see this cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 1-7 [box 1]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album (Post-1600. Gold tooled dark blue ?morocco with on the spine: 'Italian / Miniatures

• An engraved foliate full-page border, with the text excised, illuminated in colours and gold, of acanthus leaves, flowers, cherabim and gems., Cutting from a printed Missal, containing text from the Canon of the Mass

to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 1-7 [box 1]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album (Post-1600. Gold tooled dark blue ?morocco with on the spine: 'Italian / Miniatures

• Inhabited illuminated initial 'P'(rimum) with human figures and animals, at the beginning of book 1., De universo seu De rerum naturis

and animals, at the beginning of book 1. Includes the De universo seu De rerum naturis, an encyclopaedia arranged in 22 books, based on the 'Etymologies' of Isidore, of Rabanus Maurus (b. c. 776, d. 856), abbot of Fulda and

• Foliate initial 'C'(lemens) with a medallion of a portrait of the author, pope Clement I, at the beginning of the text., Collectio Lanfranci

Quire signatures.One of 12 surviving English Romanesque copies of the text. 1 large foliate initial with a medallion of a portrait of the author, in colours and gold (f. 1). Decorated initials, some with arabesque ornament, in green, red, purple,

• Details of a miniature of the temptation of lovers, and of a miniature of the Temptation by fine clothing., Breviari d'Amor

(Carley's 'Old Large Number') '36' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 132' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; and in the catalogue of

• Detail of a miniature of Matfre discussing with lovers and troubadours., Breviari d'Amor

(Carley's 'Old Large Number') '36' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 132' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; and in the catalogue of

• Illuminated initials 'V'(olucris) and 'Q'(uid) with foliate decoration., Moralia in Job

copy of the Moralia in Job written by the same hand (ff. 297, 298).Instructions for rubrics. Catchwords and bifolium signatures 1 historiated initial of Gregory the Great with two clerics, in colours and gold, with a full bar border, at

• Historiated initial 'R'(everentissimo) of pope Greogy the Great, with a full bar-border with dogs and rabbits in the lower margin., Moralia in Job

copy of the Moralia in Job written by the same hand (ff. 297, 298).Instructions for rubrics. Catchwords and bifolium signatures 1 historiated initial of Gregory the Great with two clerics, in colours and gold, with a full bar border, at

• Puzzle initial 'D'(omino) with a partial border, at the beginning of the Secretum Secretorum., Secretum Secretorum, Historia destructionis Troiae, and other texts

bifolium signatures 2 puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing and penwork partial border in red and blue (ff. 1, 38). Initials in red with blue or purple pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing throughout the text. Secretum

• Miniature of pope Innocent IV giving an opinion on the Decretals, with a man holding an open book before him, and a group of people including another pope, perhaps Gregory IX, with a partial border containing two medallions with a man with a burden and a man in water, and an illuminated initial 'L'(egitur) with a head of a woman, at the beginning of book 1., Apparatus in quinque libros Decretalium

(ff. 5, 7v, 10, 13, ... , 242). 1 miniature in colours and gold, with a partial border and an initial with a human head, at the beginning of book 1 (f. 1). 3 historiated initials in colours and gold,

• Miniature in three registers of the treatment of various ailments., Circa instans (index Herbal)

white, and grey in 4 registers (ff. 50-51v). 1 large miniature in colours in a gold ground (f. 48). 1 3-sided border with animals and leaves in colours and gold (f. 48). 1 large initial in colours on a gold

• Flourished initial., Le Château d'Amour, etc.

initial. 1 small initial in blue with red foliate pen-flourishing. Small initials in plain red or blue, one with penwork decoration (f. 2). Le Château d'Amour, etc. ? Trinity College, Cambridge: its MS. O.3.44 article 5 (articles 1-4 are now

• Historiated initial 'A'(d) with Aristotle and foliate border., De regimine principum (ff. 1-32); De natura animalium (ff. 32v-54v); Life of St Veridianus, etc. (ff. 55-57v); Variae (ff. 57v-67v), De anima (ff. 68-79v); Speculum (ff. 80-83v), Soliloquies (ff. 83v-128v), Pelagius' Liber de vita christiana (ff. 129-139v)

with a three-sided, the following with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 32v, 57v). 4 large decorated foliate initials with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (ff. 68, 80, 83v, 129). 10 smaller decorated

• Historiated initial 'D'(um) and foliate border., De regimine principum (ff. 1-32); De natura animalium (ff. 32v-54v); Life of St Veridianus, etc. (ff. 55-57v); Variae (ff. 57v-67v), De anima (ff. 68-79v); Speculum (ff. 80-83v), Soliloquies (ff. 83v-128v), Pelagius' Liber de vita christiana (ff. 129-139v)

a three-sided, the following with partial foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 32v, 57v). 4 large decorated foliate initials with foliate extensions into the margins, in colours and gold (ff. 68, 80, 83v, 129). 10 smaller decorated foliate

• Detail of a miniature of the second Temptation of Christ., Breviari d'Amor

(Carley's 'Old Large Number') '36' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 132' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; and in the catalogue of

• Three miniatures of the mocking of Christ, of the denial of Peter, and of Christ before Pilate., Breviari d'Amor

(Carley's 'Old Large Number') '36' (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 132' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; and in the catalogue of

• Puzzle initial 'P'(uis) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the text., Anglo-Norman romance

(now Additional 40143, ff. 1-6) Large puzzle initial in red and blue with penwork decoration in brown and green (f. 1). Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour at the beginning of each verse. Anglo-Norman romance

• null, Speculum humanae salvationis; Register of the history of the Old Testatment

Large initials in red, some with penwork decoration. Highlighting of letters in red. Speculum humanae salvationis; Register of the history of the Old Testatment The Cistercian nunnery of St Mary and St Mauritius, Medingen, lower Saxony: inscription 'Liber sanctae