• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a bishop approaching a church, while the Virgin Mary leads a woman away behind the church., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a bishop approaching a church, while the Virgin Mary leads a woman away behind the church. Part I: the text and gloss written in Southern France, perhaps in Toulouse: lemmata underlined in yellow, with

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of David playing a harp at the beginning of Psalms. A later owner has numbered the Psalms in medieval arabic numerals, 1-5, at the outer edge of the left margin., Bible, imperfect, with table of contents (ff. 1v-2), liturgical calendar (ff. 423-424), and sermon notes between the Old and New Testaments, (ff. 425-429v) and lections (f. 534r-v)

Church, Canterbury: an erased inscription has been read as 'Biblius ecclesie Christi Cantuarie v[endicat]us (?) eidem ecclesie per Johannem L . . .' (f. 1); inclusion of readings for the ordination of bishops etc. (f. 534v); calendar with Christ

• Historiated initial 'O'(mnis) with God appearing to a crowned Solomon in bed, at the beginning of Ecclesiastes., Bible, imperfect, with table of contents (ff. 1v-2), liturgical calendar (ff. 423-424), and sermon notes between the Old and New Testaments, (ff. 425-429v) and lections (f. 534r-v)

Church, Canterbury: an erased inscription has been read as 'Biblius ecclesie Christi Cantuarie v[endicat]us (?) eidem ecclesie per Johannem L . . .' (f. 1); inclusion of readings for the ordination of bishops etc. (f. 534v); calendar with Christ

• Historiated initial 'L'(iber) with Matthew's symbol of a winged man, and decorated initial 'M' for the prologue, at the beginning of Matthew., Bible, imperfect, with table of contents (ff. 1v-2), liturgical calendar (ff. 423-424), and sermon notes between the Old and New Testaments, (ff. 425-429v) and lections (f. 534r-v)

Church, Canterbury: an erased inscription has been read as 'Biblius ecclesie Christi Cantuarie v[endicat]us (?) eidem ecclesie per Johannem L . . .' (f. 1); inclusion of readings for the ordination of bishops etc. (f. 534v); calendar with Christ

• Puzzle initial on the first page of text, from the book of Job, with Arundel and Lumley ownership signatures., Bible (Job to Revelation)

from Job to Revelation. The first volume is Royal 1 E VII. The text corrected or emended by a Christ Church scribe; other manuscripts attributed to him are: Cambridge, Trinity College, B. 1.17 and B. 3.9 (see Marsden 1994 and

• Benefice of HOWDEN CHURCH COMMON FUND (YK.00.HW.08)

COMMUNIA ECCLESIE HOVEDEN Benefice of HOWDEN CHURCH COMMON FUND (YK.00.HW.08) £ 16. 13s. 4d. HOWDEN CHURCH COMMON FUND If appropriated No Full entry £ 16. 13s. 4d. 25

• Benefice of CHURCH AND OBVENTIONS OF THE RURAL DEAN OF LLEYN (BN.BN.LE.01)

Ecclesia et obventiones decani Benefice of CHURCH AND OBVENTIONS OF THE RURAL DEAN OF LLEYN (BN.BN.LE.01) £ 5. 0s. 0d. CHURCH AND OBVENTIONS OF THE RURAL DEAN OF LLEYN 1291 - 1292 (pat.) ecclesiatical Not app. 1 If appropriated

• Benefice of CLIFTON (YK.NT.BG.27)

ded: ST MARY F.Arnold-Forster, Studies in Church Dedication, 3 vols (London, 1899) vol 3 p.90 (inst.) prebend/prebendal church 1302 (pat.) ecclesiatical LINCOLN, LINCS., CATHEDRAL, SECULAR COLLEGE SECULAR COLLEGE / ACADEMIC COLLEGE / MOTHER CHURCH OR 'CLAS' RegCorb1 p.232 If appropriated

• Benefice of CAMBRIDGE, ST EDWARD (EL.EL.CA.06)

item of the deanery list): but it must be that the 'church' of St Edward and the pension in the church of St Edward relate to the same church. PRO, E179/68/63 (Ely diocese) p.1 (added because of new low threshold

• Benefice of HAILES (WO.GL.CC.21)

the church of 'Didbrook'? We cannot be sure, but if this were the case, the church here was not in fact appropriated and the abbey presented to both benefices, that is the church and the vicarage. The imposing church at

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Given here in full. English f. 46r 'Arta erit nimis uia reprobis', etc. French Latin f. 46r Augustine On the church militant Latin f. 46v 'Lingua latina potens' Latin f. 46v On the wood of the cross Latin f. 46v