• Coloured initials 'L'(icet) and 'M'(ensis), Rule of Saint Benedict and other religious texts, including the Carta caritatis

(b. 1635, d. 1699), bishop of Worcester and theologian (see Wright 1972). Edward Stillingfleet (b. 1661, d. 1708), physician and Church of England clergyman, son of the former; in 1707 acquired by Robert Harley (see Wright 1972).The Harley Collection, formed

• Calendar page for February, with coloured letters., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter') The cathedral church of St Peter, Exeter: evidence of the script and litany; perhaps made for Leofric, bishop (1046-1072) and given by

• Calendar page for April, with coloured letters., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter') The cathedral church of St Peter, Exeter: evidence of the script and litany; perhaps made for Leofric, bishop (1046-1072) and given by

• Text page with coloured initials., Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')

red. Psalter, with canticles (ff. 99-108), litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter') The cathedral church of St Peter, Exeter: evidence of the script and litany; perhaps made for Leofric, bishop (1046-1072) and given by

• null, Epitome bellorum omnium annorum DCC

1 large foliate initial in colours on a burnished punched gold ground (f. 1, perhaps 19th-century ?), with a three-sided border incorporating heraldic arms. Small initials alternately plain red or blue, often in unusual angular forms. Epitome bellorum omnium

• null, Epitome bellorum omnium annorum DCC

1 large foliate initial in colours on a burnished punched gold ground (f. 1, perhaps 19th-century ?), with a three-sided border incorporating heraldic arms. Small initials alternately plain red or blue, often in unusual angular forms. Epitome bellorum omnium

• Calendar page for March, including the translation of Kyneburga, Kyneswitha, and Tibba (6 March), Calendar (January to August only) and computistical table

Kyneburga, Kyneswitha, Tibba, and Sexburga; the petitions are the same as in other Peterborough manuscriptsAll parts:The ownership(?) inscription of a church is mostly torn away (f. 3, lower margin).Numerous obits of laymen and women are added to the calendar.? A

• Calendar page for April, including the feast of Guthlac (d. 714), hermit of Crowland, in green ink on 11 April, and his octave on 18 April., Calendar (January to August only) and computistical table

Kyneburga, Kyneswitha, Tibba, and Sexburga; the petitions are the same as in other Peterborough manuscriptsAll parts:The ownership(?) inscription of a church is mostly torn away (f. 3, lower margin).Numerous obits of laymen and women are added to the calendar.? A

• Coloured initials, and In the first column, a rubric introducing a list of 'relics which are kept in the church of St. Mary, Reading'. The first group relate to Christ (pieces of the Holy Cross and various items he had touched), the next group to the Virgin Mary, the third to patriarchs and prophets, etc., Cartulary of Reading abbey, with lists of the libraries at Reading and its cell at Leominster, and of relics and vestments at Reading

introducing a list of 'relics which are kept in the church of St. Mary, Reading'. The first group relate to Christ (pieces of the Holy Cross and various items he had touched), the next group to the Virgin Mary, the

• 'Coloured initials and rubric stating 'These are the books which are kept in Reading church'., Cartulary of Reading abbey, with lists of the libraries at Reading and its cell at Leominster, and of relics and vestments at Reading

the books which are kept in Reading church'. The charters show that the original compilation was done early in the reign of Richard 1 (1190-1199), although the booklist may have been copied between c. 1180 and c. 1191, based on

• Inscription stating that John of Dalling, monk of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans, gave this book to the abbey with the permission of abbot John of Hertford, reading 'Hunc librum dedit Frater Johannes de Dal/ling ex licencia domini Joh[annis] abb[at]is deo / eccl[es]ie s[anc]ti Albani ita tamen quod habeat / usum t[antu]m in vita sua. Quem quid[em] qui ab / eadem ecc[lesie] alienaverit v[e]l titulum dele/verit anathema sit. Amen. / Anima Johannis de dalling et anime omnium fidelium defunctorum requiescant in pace. Amen/'; with a note that the book was kept in a cupboard in the choir, 'De armariolo in choro.', Psalter and Canticles

1246, 16th November, ff. 7, 153v); for St. Albans use: the calendar includes: the octave of the dedication of the church of St. Albans (4th January, f. 2), 'Festivitas reliquiarum' in gold (27th January, f. 2), the passion of Alban

• Miniature of Cuthbert miraculously discovering a roof beam for his church in the waves of the ocean, from Chapter 21 of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert., Prose Life of Cuthbert; extracts from the Historia Ecclesiastica (History of the English Church and People)

a roof beam for his church in the waves of the ocean, from Chapter 21 of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert. This manuscript was formerly Additional 39943.f. 20 should follow f. 21.A duplicate copy of the volume, but with

• Coloured initial and rubric in display capitals., End of 'Contra mendacium' followed by the beginning of 'De cura pro mortuis gerenda', cropped leaf

[part 4]: Originally part of a manuscript corpus of Augustine's works written by Eadmer, (d. c. 1130), monk at Christ Church, Canterbury, in the late 1080s (see Gullick 1998).f. 25 [part 12]:? Hew Herte, possibly identifiable with Hugh Herte (d.

• Coloured initial 'R'(everentissimis)., De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses

brown. Rubrics in capitals and chapter numbers in red. De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses The cathedral church of St Peter, Exeter: contains a list of relics in a 12th- century hand on two sheets of vellum

• Text page with inventory of relics at Exeter: 'These are the names of the holy saints, which are in the monastery of St Peter and St Mary, Exeter . . .'. The list begins with relics of Christ's blood, his cross, tomb, and clothing. The list also enumerates a part of St Peter's beard and St Andrew's walking-stick., De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses

brown. Rubrics in capitals and chapter numbers in red. De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses The cathedral church of St Peter, Exeter: contains a list of relics in a 12th- century hand on two sheets of vellum

• Initial with foliate decoration., De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses

brown. Rubrics in capitals and chapter numbers in red. De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses The cathedral church of St Peter, Exeter: contains a list of relics in a 12th- century hand on two sheets of vellum

• Initial 'I'(am) with man and a dragon enmeshed in foliage., De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses

brown. Rubrics in capitals and chapter numbers in red. De laudibus virginitatis, with Old English and Latin glosses The cathedral church of St Peter, Exeter: contains a list of relics in a 12th- century hand on two sheets of vellum

• Drawing of a circle, representing the scheme of the heptarchy, with seven spheres surrounding a central one., The Scheme of the Heptarchy (f. 40), the Roman de Brut (ff. 40-113), the Estoire des Engles (ff. 113-150) (index Estoire des Engleis)

VIII, Royal Appendix 69, f. 2 (see Carley 2000).Part 4 (ff. 151-192v)The Augustinian priory of the Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Kirkham, Yorkshire, founded c.1122: Arundel 36, Cotton Vespasian B XI, ff. 84-125*, and Royal 13 A XXI (ff.151-92) were

• Historiated initial 'D'(ixit) with a bust of Christ in a star, at the beginning of Psalm 109., Psalter, including material for determining hours of daylight, a calendar, Canticles and hymns, and creed (ff. 139v-141v), litany and prayers

creed (ff. 139v-141v), litany and prayers The hospital of St Giles, Norwich: the calendar includes the dedication of the parish church of Norwich and the obit of Hugh Actor of the hospital (d. 1464).The Derham and Crimplesham (Crumpilsham) families: added

• null, Psalter, imperfect, beginning with Psalm 2:8 and with folios excised (the 'Charité- sur- Loire Psalter), with a calendar and related tables (ff. 1-8v), with prayers (f. 87r-v); and litany and prayers (ff. 88-93v)

an abbey of nuns in some relationship with the Cluniac monastery of La Charité-sur-Loire, north of Nevers: dedication of the church of La Charité in the calendar for March 9 'dedicatio ecclesiae de kar' (f. 2); prayer with reference to