• Detail of a miniature of kings playing a board game., Guiron le Courtois (index Palamedes, Meliadus)

during a speech by the Chevalier sans peur to Meliadus. The attribution to Hélie de Borron in this manuscript (f. 1) is doubtful. The text was composed between 1235 and c.1240.The miniatures, by several Neapolitan artists with French influence, were

• Decorated initial 'A' with a dragon and foliage., Gradual (the Temporale and Sanctorale combined)

neumes. Large initial in colours with a dragon and foliage (f. 1). Large initial in red with green penwork decoration (f. 33). Large initials in red, green, or brown. Small initials in red or brown. Highlighting of letters in red

• Decorated initials., Chronicle, imperfect; De gestis Ludouici imperatoris; Life of Charlemagne (ff. 94-105); Prophecy of the tenth sibyl (ff. 106-109v)

Decorated initials. ff. 1-2 are parchment flyleaves. Large initials in red, some with penwork decoration. Chronicle, imperfect; De gestis Ludouici imperatoris; Life of Charlemagne (ff. 94-105); Prophecy of the tenth sibyl (ff. 106-109v) The Fugger family: inscription 'Ex Bibliotheca

• Decorated initial 'V'(itam)., Chronicle, imperfect; De gestis Ludouici imperatoris; Life of Charlemagne (ff. 94-105); Prophecy of the tenth sibyl (ff. 106-109v)

Decorated initial 'V'(itam). ff. 1-2 are parchment flyleaves. Large initials in red, some with penwork decoration. Chronicle, imperfect; De gestis Ludouici imperatoris; Life of Charlemagne (ff. 94-105); Prophecy of the tenth sibyl (ff. 106-109v) The Fugger family: inscription 'Ex

• Incipit with red infill, in the Council of Gangra., Dionisio-Hadriana

Society in 1667.The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 1; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.6.9’, inside upper cover).Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of

• Text page with a passage from the life of the nun Anna the Younger, whao was renamed Euphemianus., Synaxarion (Lives of Saints) for September, October, and November

Jesuits from 1591 to 1762: inscribed, 17th century, 'Collegii Agenen. Soc. Jesu Cat. Insc.' (f. 1, upper margin); 'Collegii Agen Societ. Jesu Catal. Ins.' (f. 1, lower margin).The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• Decorated initial 'B'(Ritaiuua) [for Britannia] and coloured initial 'E'(Neas)., Historical miscellany, including an excerpt from Geoffrey's 'Historia regum Britanniae' (index Gesta Britonum) (ff. 1-11v), Bernard's 'De cognitione humanae conditionis' (ff. 12-15v), 'Catalogus Romanorum Pontificum' from Peter to Benedict XII (ff. 16-22), Innocent's 'De miseria humanæ conditionis' (ff. 23-32), and John's 'Turris Sapientiae, sive Speculum theologiae' (f. 32v)

initial 'E'(Neas). Decorated initials in red (ff. 1, 16). Initials, rubrics and paraphs in red. Small initials and cadels highlighted in red. Historical miscellany, including an excerpt from Geoffrey's 'Historia regum Britanniae' (index Gesta Britonum) (ff. 1-11v), Bernard's 'De cognitione

• Miniature in four compartments: 1. Solomon instructing Rehoboam; 2. The Judgement of Solomon; 3. Solomon and three men; 4. Solomon setting the three sons to shoot at their father's corpse to prove their legitimacy, with a full border containing birds and two hybrids, a lion, and an ape in the bas-de-page, at the beginning of Proverbs., Bible historiale complétée moyenne (the 'Bible Historiale of John the Good')

four compartments: 1. Solomon instructing Rehoboam; 2. The Judgement of Solomon; 3. Solomon and three men; 4. Solomon setting the three sons to shoot at their father's corpse to prove their legitimacy, with a full border containing birds and two

• Pen-drawing of a zodiac man., Lectionary, with a calendar, and readings for Sundays and weekdays

Pen-drawing of a zodiac man. Only the illuminated parts are described. Pen-drawing of a zodiac man (f. 10). Large puzzle initials in red and blue. Small initials in plain red. Lectionary, with a calendar, and readings for Sundays and

• Puzzle initial 'D'(its)., Lectionary, with a calendar, and readings for Sundays and weekdays

Puzzle initial 'D'(its). Only the illuminated parts are described. Pen-drawing of a zodiac man (f. 10). Large puzzle initials in red and blue. Small initials in plain red. Lectionary, with a calendar, and readings for Sundays and weekdays Colophons

• Coloured initials., Commonitorium directivum simplicium volentium

initials in plain red, 1 with a human face in brown ink (f. 28). Paraph marks in plain red. Commonitorium directivum simplicium volentium 'Explicit commonitorium ad honorem dei omnipotentis scriptum per Johannem Arfelt de Esschenew(ege) [Eschwege an der Werra] presbyterum

• Decorated puzzle initial 'Q'(uadam) of the first book of Gregory's Dialogues, with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, and and pen-flourished border., Dialogues, with alphabetical index

and topographer (inscribed in pencil ‘Gregory the 1st Dialogues, Compleat, Wrote about/ Anno Domini 1400 in the Court Hand’, f. 1); for similar notations see Burney 39, 287, 288, 307?, and 323, and Additional 18601.Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817),

• Decorated headpiece., Gospel lectionary

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) (ff. 23v,

• Text page with puzzle initial, decorated initial and paraphs., Religious and moral poems and a prose treatise; Manuel de Pechies (index: Péchés, Péchéz ); Le Chasteau d'Amour

bound at the end of the volume among the unfoliated flyleaves. Puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing (ff. 1, 5). Initials and paraphs in red or blue. Rubrics in red. Small capitals highilighted in red. Religious and moral

• Puzzle initials., Commentary on the Decretum Gratiani (begins imperfectly)

decoration in purple and red. 1 smaller space for illuminated initial left empty (f. 64). Small initials (2 lines) in red with purple penwork decoration or in blue with red penwork decoration. Small initials (1 line) and paraph marks in

• Detail of puzzle initial., Commentary on the Decretum Gratiani (begins imperfectly)

decoration in purple and red. 1 smaller space for illuminated initial left empty (f. 64). Small initials (2 lines) in red with purple penwork decoration or in blue with red penwork decoration. Small initials (1 line) and paraph marks in

• Headpiece with geometric and foliate decoration and inscribed with title in coloured display capitals, and decorated initial 'T'., Gospel Lectionary, imperfect

capitals, and decorated initial 'T'. Missing leaves at the beginning and after ff. 1, 23, 36, 135, 197, 219.Pericopes arranged according to the ecclesiastical calendar. Headpieces with geometric and foliate decoration in gold or silver and colours and inscribed with

• Puzzle initial 'S'(exta)., Commentary on the Decretum Gratiani (begins imperfectly)

decoration in purple and red. 1 smaller space for illuminated initial left empty (f. 64). Small initials (2 lines) in red with purple penwork decoration or in blue with red penwork decoration. Small initials (1 line) and paraph marks in

• Detail of puzzle initials., Commentary on the Decretum Gratiani (begins imperfectly)

decoration in purple and red. 1 smaller space for illuminated initial left empty (f. 64). Small initials (2 lines) in red with purple penwork decoration or in blue with red penwork decoration. Small initials (1 line) and paraph marks in

• Detail of puzzle initial, with a hybrid creature and a flower., Commentary on the Decretum Gratiani (begins imperfectly)

decoration in purple and red. 1 smaller space for illuminated initial left empty (f. 64). Small initials (2 lines) in red with purple penwork decoration or in blue with red penwork decoration. Small initials (1 line) and paraph marks in