• Text page with decorated initials., Commentary on the Psalms (51-100)

the other colour. Display script in alternating blue and red. Commentary on the Psalms (51-100) Perhaps belonged to the parish church of Laxton, Nottinghamshire: inscribed 'Liber iste liber est ecclesie de Lexyngtona et qui eum alienaverit anathema sit' in a

• Framed initial 'Q' with foliate decoration., Commentary on the Psalms (51-100)

the other colour. Display script in alternating blue and red. Commentary on the Psalms (51-100) Perhaps belonged to the parish church of Laxton, Nottinghamshire: inscribed 'Liber iste liber est ecclesie de Lexyngtona et qui eum alienaverit anathema sit' in a

• Initial 'C' with foliate decoration and display script. Decorated initials., Commentary on the Psalms (51-100)

the other colour. Display script in alternating blue and red. Commentary on the Psalms (51-100) Perhaps belonged to the parish church of Laxton, Nottinghamshire: inscribed 'Liber iste liber est ecclesie de Lexyngtona et qui eum alienaverit anathema sit' in a

• Puzzle initial 'P'(uer) at the beginning of the music for Christmas day., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of Newbold

• Decorated initial 'G'(audeamus) at the beginning of the music for the feast of Guthlac on 11 April, with 14th-century marginal additions., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of Newbold

• Decorated initial 'D'(ilexisti) at the beginning of the music for the feast day of the virgin Pega, the sister of Guthlac, who lived as an anchoress at Peakirk, a little north of Peterborough., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of Newbold

• Decorated initial 'S' at the beginning of the music for the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary, also known as Candlemas Day, on 2 February (the 40th day after Christmas day)., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of Newbold

• Tituli of religious houses, mostly in Winchester, including St Mary and St Ethelberga; St Peter, St Paul and St Swithun, and the abbey church of St Mary in Sherborne., Mortuary roll of Lucy, foundress and first prioress of the Benedictine nunnery of Castle Hedingham, tituli (responsive prayers)

St Ethelberga; St Peter, St Paul and St Swithun, and the abbey church of St Mary in Sherborne. Part II is stored separately.This is the fifth oldest English obituary roll, though the others are fragmentary, preceded by those of Turgot

• Prayers, including of the church of St Mary and St Aethelburga at Barking, near the lower edge., Mortuary roll of Lucy, foundress and first prioress of the Benedictine nunnery of Castle Hedingham, tituli (responsive prayers)

of the church of St Mary and St Aethelburga at Barking, near the lower edge. Part II is stored separately.This is the fifth oldest English obituary roll, though the others are fragmentary, preceded by those of Turgot of Durham (d.

• Tituli of communities from London, with the inscription from the church of St Bartholomew in London at the end of the section, and that of St Mary's, Stratford at the top., Mortuary roll of Lucy, foundress and first prioress of the Benedictine nunnery of Castle Hedingham, tituli (responsive prayers)

with the inscription from the church of St Bartholomew in London at the end of the section, and that of St Mary's, Stratford at the top. Part II is stored separately.This is the fifth oldest English obituary roll, though the

• Puzzle initial 'P'(uer) at the beginning of the music for Christmas day., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of Newbold

• Musical notation., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of Newbold

• The first entry on this page, the annal for 399, records that Rufinus of Aquileia wrote his history of the Church in that year. Other annals include the discovery of the body of the first martyr, Stephen (410), Augustine's publication his book 'The City of God' (414, in red) and the deaths of Jerome (420) and Augustine (424)., Gesta Regum Anglorum; Annals to 1212 (ff. 103-33), imperfect (the B version)

records that Rufinus of Aquileia wrote his history of the Church in that year. Other annals include the discovery of the body of the first martyr, Stephen (410), Augustine's publication his book 'The City of God' (414, in red) and

• Tinted pen-drawing of the Crucifixion.

180-184; available at [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42876], accessed on 30 July 2009. Pen drawing of the Crucifixion tinted in green and pink-brown. The church of St. John Baptist, Pirton (Worcestershire), 14th century: the inscription 'Missale Parochie de Pirton' (recto, above the drawing).The blank

• Swan marks., Collection of swan-marks displayed in alphabetical order, beginning with the royal swan mark before Henry VIII

of fragments of different date and origin bound at the beginning of the 16th-century swan-mark collection.The statutes of the Norwegian Church were established at the synod of Bergen in 1164 after the election of King Magnus: this fragment relates to

• Puzzle initial 'R'(esurrexi) at the beginning of the music for Easter day., Gradual of Crowland abbey, imperfect ('The Crowland Gradual')

Thomas Manning has scripsit anno domini 1655' (f. 140) .? Edward and Roger Howman Norfolk: inscritions 'Edw: Howman' and 'Ancient Church Musick long before the Reformation or Printing' (f. i); and 'R. Howman (f. iv verso).G. J. Little of Newbold

• Decorated initial 'C'(ircumcisio) at the beginning of the martyrology for January., Martyrology for the use of Norwich, with calendar (ff. 4-9v)

Small initials in red or blue. Martyrology for the use of Norwich, with calendar (ff. 4-9v) The dedication of a church at Norwich is entered into the calendar on 24 September 'dedicatio ecclesiae Norwit' (f. 8).Addition of the translation of

• Calendar page for December., Martyrology for the use of Norwich, with calendar (ff. 4-9v)

Small initials in red or blue. Martyrology for the use of Norwich, with calendar (ff. 4-9v) The dedication of a church at Norwich is entered into the calendar on 24 September 'dedicatio ecclesiae Norwit' (f. 8).Addition of the translation of

• Beginning of the genealogy text, with the beginning of a genealogical tree., Miscellany including works on heraldry and genealogy, a bestiary and book of birds, historical annals of St David's and Llandaff, an English translation of Christine de Pisan's the Epistle of Othea to Hector (Epistre de Othea) (ff. 67-91v), and the Prophecy of Merlin (ff. 92-93v)

(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

• Historiated illuminated initial 'E'(xultate) at the beginning of Psalm 80 of a man with a harp and perhaps a simple crown, and other musicians with a fiddle, a horn, and a psaltery, probably David and Asaph, Ethan, and Idithun, and two dogs, one with cymbols., Psalter, with calendar, ending imperfectly

priory of St Giles, Barnwell, Cambridgeshire: evidence of the calendar and the litany (see Morgan 1982).Precentor 'E' of the cathedral church of Holy Trinity, Chichester: added obits of Bishop Ranulf on 15 September (f. 8); and of the precentor's father