• Detail of a juggler, representing the third musical mode., Gradual of Saint-Etienne of Toulouse, including a tonary (a collection of chant melodies)

a tonary (a collection of chant melodies) The cathedral of Saint-Etienne,Toulouse: privileges granted to, and gradual for use of this church (ff. 119-301); document from Ildefonsus, count of Touluse (dated 1128), addressed to Amalius, bishop of Tolouse (1105 to 1140)

• Miniature of a man holding a set of bells, representing the fourth musical mode., Gradual of Saint-Etienne of Toulouse, including a tonary (a collection of chant melodies)

a tonary (a collection of chant melodies) The cathedral of Saint-Etienne,Toulouse: privileges granted to, and gradual for use of this church (ff. 119-301); document from Ildefonsus, count of Touluse (dated 1128), addressed to Amalius, bishop of Tolouse (1105 to 1140)

• Detail of a man holding a set of bells, representing the fourth musical mode., Gradual of Saint-Etienne of Toulouse, including a tonary (a collection of chant melodies)

a tonary (a collection of chant melodies) The cathedral of Saint-Etienne,Toulouse: privileges granted to, and gradual for use of this church (ff. 119-301); document from Ildefonsus, count of Touluse (dated 1128), addressed to Amalius, bishop of Tolouse (1105 to 1140)

• Miniature of the Crucifixion, with the Virgin and John the Evangelist, at the beginning of the Te igitur in a Missal., Missal

147. Missal The cathedral of St. Kylian, Würzburg, between 1443 and 1455: the calendar includes the dedication of the old church of Würzburg (26 July), in black, and the feasts of Kylian, its octave (8 and 15 July), and the

• Historiated initial 'B'(ritannia) with armed figures in a boat?, and a full border, at the beginning of Gaufridus Monemutensis's Historia Britonum., Miscellany of mostly historical texts

Eastern from 1368 onwards; the quire with the calendar (ff. 307-314) is perhaps a later addition. History of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Norwich is recorded in detail.In the calendar is added 'Petrus Bovyll obiit 1516' (f. 313v).Unidentified

• Historiated initial 'B'(ritannia) with armed figures in a boat?, at the beginning of Gaufridus Monemutensis's Historia Britonum., Miscellany of mostly historical texts

Eastern from 1368 onwards; the quire with the calendar (ff. 307-314) is perhaps a later addition. History of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Norwich is recorded in detail.In the calendar is added 'Petrus Bovyll obiit 1516' (f. 313v).Unidentified

• Miniature of worshippers in a church, with a statue of Christ blessing, for the suffrage for Peace., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (The 'Neville of Hornby Hours')

worshippers in a church, with a statue of Christ blessing, for the suffrage for Peace. Egerton 2781 is closely related in style and iconographic content to the Taymouth Hours (Yates Thompson 13) and the Smithfield Decretals (Royal 10 E IV).

• Detail of an historiated initial 'E'(cclesia) of the pope enthroned., Omne Bonum (Ebrietas-Humanus)

(Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697', but 1698?), no. 8275).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Ecclesia (The Church) James le Palmer James le Palmer James le Palmer London England, S. E. (London)

• Detail of a historiated initial 'C'(clericus) of a church., Omne Bonum (Circumcisio-Dona Spiritui Sancti)

initial 'C'(clericus) of a church. The only known, and probably autograph copy of the Omne Bonum of James le Palmer, being a general encyclopaedia arranged in alphabetical order. Bound in four volumes: Royal 6 E VI, vols. 1 and 2,

• Detail of an historiated initial 'C'(este) of a bishop (probably saint Edmund) holding a mirror, at the beginning of the Speculum ecclesiae., Livre de Sydrac (index Book of Sydrac; Book of Sidrac; La Fontaine de toutes sciences; Le Tresor des sciences; Le Roman du philosophe Sydrac)(ff. 1-140); Edmund's 'Mireour de seinte eglise' (index Speculum ecclesiae; Miroir de sainte eglise; Mirror of the church)(ff. 141-156); a short text in Latin attributed to Ambrose (f. 156); La vie nostre dame seinte marie' (f. 156); Robert Grosseteste's Commencement du monde (ff. 156-168)

Detail of an historiated initial 'C'(este) of a bishop (probably saint Edmund) holding a mirror, at the beginning of the Speculum ecclesiae. f. 1* is a parchment fragment, probably from a 14th-century charter, written in an English cursive hand.

• Detail of a dog chasing a hare on the lower portion of a partial foliate bar border, at the beginning of the Speculum ecclesiae., Livre de Sydrac (index Book of Sydrac; Book of Sidrac; La Fontaine de toutes sciences; Le Tresor des sciences; Le Roman du philosophe Sydrac)(ff. 1-140); Edmund's 'Mireour de seinte eglise' (index Speculum ecclesiae; Miroir de sainte eglise; Mirror of the church)(ff. 141-156); a short text in Latin attributed to Ambrose (f. 156); La vie nostre dame seinte marie' (f. 156); Robert Grosseteste's Commencement du monde (ff. 156-168)

Detail of a dog chasing a hare on the lower portion of a partial foliate bar border, at the beginning of the Speculum ecclesiae. f. 1* is a parchment fragment, probably from a 14th-century charter, written in an English

• Miniature of a grotesque creature dressed in academic robes, with coloured initials., Constitutiones clementis pape V(index Constitutiones Clementinae; Constitutions of pope Clement V), with the gloss of Johannes Andreae (Giovanni d’Andrea) and the preface of Pope John XXII

inscribed, 15th century, 'Hic liber est Nicolaij Soczini domini Nicolaij' (f. 85).Rome S. Andrea [? della Valle, Rome, the mother church of the Theatines, founded 1524]: late-16th century book stamps: 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (ff. 3, 85).John Wright, librarian to

• Miniature of a grotesque creature dressed in academic robes, with coloured initials., Constitutiones clementis pape V(index Constitutiones Clementinae; Constitutions of pope Clement V), with the gloss of Johannes Andreae (Giovanni d’Andrea) and the preface of Pope John XXII

inscribed, 15th century, 'Hic liber est Nicolaij Soczini domini Nicolaij' (f. 85).Rome S. Andrea [? della Valle, Rome, the mother church of the Theatines, founded 1524]: late-16th century book stamps: 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (ff. 3, 85).John Wright, librarian to

• Historiated initial 'A'(mbiciosus) of a bishop and a layman at the door of a church., Omne Bonum (Absolucio-Circumcisio)

a layman at the door of a church. The only known, and probably autograph copy of the Omne Bonum of James le Palmer, being a general encyclopaedia arranged in alphabetical order. Bound in four volumes: Royal 6 E VI, vols.

• Historiated initial 'C'(ensus) of a bishop at the door of a church., Omne Bonum (Absolucio-Circumcisio)

bishop at the door of a church. The only known, and probably autograph copy of the Omne Bonum of James le Palmer, being a general encyclopaedia arranged in alphabetical order. Bound in four volumes: Royal 6 E VI, vols. 1

• Historiated initial 'B'(eneficia) of a bishop and a young man entering a church., Omne Bonum (Absolucio-Circumcisio)

and a young man entering a church. The only known, and probably autograph copy of the Omne Bonum of James le Palmer, being a general encyclopaedia arranged in alphabetical order. Bound in four volumes: Royal 6 E VI, vols. 1

• Miniature of the enthroned pope receiving a copy of a law book from a kneeling cleric, with a decorated initial 'I'(ohannes) and a historiated initial 'I'(ohannes) of a lawyer reading., Constitutiones clementis pape V(index Constitutiones Clementinae; Constitutions of pope Clement V), with the gloss of Johannes Andreae (Giovanni d’Andrea) and the preface of Pope John XXII

inscribed, 15th century, 'Hic liber est Nicolaij Soczini domini Nicolaij' (f. 85).Rome S. Andrea [? della Valle, Rome, the mother church of the Theatines, founded 1524]: late-16th century book stamps: 'BIBLIOTECAE S. ANDREAE ROMAE' (ff. 3, 85).John Wright, librarian to

• Decorated initial 'D'(eus) with bar border with ivy at the beginning of Vespers in the Hours of the Virgin., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum

of Manuscripts... ~, in ~Journal of the Society of Archivists~, 4 (1973), 603-609 (p. 606)).Inscription recording the consecration of a church in 1476, 16th century: 'Nota quod ecclesia Annuntiate varisii fuit consecrata Anno D[omi]ni 1476 die dominica 7 Julii per

• Historiated initial 'C'(este) of a bishop (probably saint Edmund) holding a mirror, with a partial foliate bar border with a dragon and a dog chasing a hare, at the beginning of the Speculum ecclesiae., Livre de Sydrac (index Book of Sydrac; Book of Sidrac; La Fontaine de toutes sciences; Le Tresor des sciences; Le Roman du philosophe Sydrac)(ff. 1-140); Edmund's 'Mireour de seinte eglise' (index Speculum ecclesiae; Miroir de sainte eglise; Mirror of the church)(ff. 141-156); a short text in Latin attributed to Ambrose (f. 156); La vie nostre dame seinte marie' (f. 156); Robert Grosseteste's Commencement du monde (ff. 156-168)

Historiated initial 'C'(este) of a bishop (probably saint Edmund) holding a mirror, with a partial foliate bar border with a dragon and a dog chasing a hare, at the beginning of the Speculum ecclesiae. f. 1* is a parchment

• Detail of an historiated initial 'D' of David and the fool, at the beginning of the erased text of Psalm 52., Psalter fragments

calendar includes Benedict, Cuthbert, John of Beverly, and Wilfrid among the confessors, and Hilda among the virgins (ff. 78r-78v). The church of St Peter-upon-Cornhill, London: bound with Royal 13 D I inscribed with 'Liber ecclesie Sancti / Petri sup[er] cornehill',