• Historiated initial 'Q'([uonia]m) of Christ in Majesty in the bowl, with display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, at the beginning of Luke., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

Historiated initial 'Q'([uonia]m) of Christ in Majesty in the bowl, with display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, at the beginning of Luke. Includes the Epistle of Jerome to Damasus

• Text page., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

Text page. Includes the Epistle of Jerome to Damasus (ff. 1-2v), an extract from Jerome's commentary to Matthew, 'Plures fuisse' (ff. 2v-3v), the Epistle of Eusebius to Carpianus (ff. 3v-4v), a preface 'Sciendum etiam' (ff. 4v-5), and a table

• Text page., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

Text page. Includes the Epistle of Jerome to Damasus (ff. 1-2v), an extract from Jerome's commentary to Matthew, 'Plures fuisse' (ff. 2v-3v), the Epistle of Eusebius to Carpianus (ff. 3v-4v), a preface 'Sciendum etiam' (ff. 4v-5), and a table

• Historiated initial 'Q'([uonia]m) of Christ in Majesty in the bowl, with display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, at the beginning of Luke, with a sketch of a leaf in the lower margin., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

Historiated initial 'Q'([uonia]m) of Christ in Majesty in the bowl, with display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' border with foliage intertwined with gold bars, at the beginning of Luke, with a sketch of a leaf in

• Historiated initial 'O'(sculetur) of Christ embracing the Virgin, at the beginning of the Gilbert Foliot's Commentary on the Song of Solomon., Commentary on the Song of Solomon

the inventory of books in the Upper Library at Westminster of 1542; in the select list of works noted by John Bale, of c. 1548; in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 3; and in the 1698 catalogue

• Detail of a note, in Anglo-Saxon, of the admission of Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, of Denmark, and of Norway, and his brother Harold into the confraternity, probably of Christ Church, Canterbury, certified by the names of brothers Ðorð, Kartoca, and Thuri., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

Detail of a note, in Anglo-Saxon, of the admission of Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, of Denmark, and of Norway, and his brother Harold into the confraternity, probably of Christ Church, Canterbury, certified by the names of brothers

• Coloured initials 'Q'(uanta) and I(ordmare), with geometric line-fillers in red., Vita S. Gregorii Papae; Versus S. Gregorii

(a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Coloured initials John the Deacon (index: Johannis Levitae, Hymonides) England

• Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(ost) with an eagle holding a book (the symbol of John?), at the beginning of part 6., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

Detail of an historiated initial 'P'(ost) with an eagle holding a book (the symbol of John?), at the beginning of part 6. This manuscript is the second volume of a two-volume copy, containing Job and the 'Moralia in Job'

• Inhabited initial 'I'(acobi) with three dragons, a human head, and a devil's mask, at the beginning of Bede's commentary on the Epistle of James., Commentary on Catholic Epistles and Commentary on Tobit

Inhabited initial 'I'(acobi) with three dragons, a human head, and a devil's mask, at the beginning of Bede's commentary on the Epistle of James. Includes the Commentary on Catholic Epistles (ff. 4-86v) and the Commentary on Tobit (ff. 86v-95)

• Text page with coloured initials., Gemma animae sive De divinis officis

Andrew, Rochester: inscribed 'Liber de claust[r]o Roffens[i] H.mo[nachi]', 14th century (f.1); added part of an indenture between Rochester Priory and John Bacher, infirmarer from Strood, dated 3 October of the second year of the reign of Henry V (1414), (f.

• Diagram of the division of philosophy., Theological miscellany

Diagram of the division of philosophy. Includes:'Liber de philosophia Salomonis' (ff. 3-9v);An extract from Isidore, Etymologiae, book 1, chapter 27, beginning 'Ortographia Grece recta scriptura interpretatur Latine' (ff. 10-11v);Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio sermonum antiquorum (Liber de Abstrusis Sermonibus) (ff.11v-18v);An incomplete

• Ownership inscription on the opening page., Moralia in Job, books 24-35

moralium. Quam scripsit Sifridus canonicus sancte marie sanctique nicolai in arenstein' (f. 1). A near contemporary hand century hand added John the Deacon's Vita S. Gregorii papae (f. 1). Notes in later hands including that of abbot Heinrich Schupp (d.

• Historiated initial 'F'(errum) of the Agnus Dei, at the beginning of the prologue to the Corrogationes Promethei of Alexander Nequam., Corrogationes Promethei; Hypomnesticon contra pelagianos et caelestianos; miscellaneous works of Augustine; sermons attributed to Caesarius

et caelestianos; miscellaneous works of Augustine; sermons attributed to Caesarius The Gilbertine priory of St. Mary, Sempringham (Lincolnshire), given by John of Glynton: inscribed, 'Lib[er] de domo de Semp[r]i[n]gh[a]m ex i[m]pet[ra]t[i]one Ioh[an]nis de Glynton / cano[n]ici d[ic]te dom[us] et si

• Text pages of the Aenigmata of Aldhelm., Prognosticon futuri saeculi; Aenigmata

as 'Libri pronosticorum iiº. In altero sunt enigmata sancti Aldelmi vetusti' (see Medieval Libraries of Great Britain 1996); noted by John Leland in his list of books in Glastonbury abbey, before 1533, no. 24 (see Carley 1986), and ~Joannis Lelandi

• Decorated initials with the text of the Riddles of Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherbonne., Prognosticon futuri saeculi; Aenigmata

as 'Libri pronosticorum iiº. In altero sunt enigmata sancti Aldelmi vetusti' (see Medieval Libraries of Great Britain 1996); noted by John Leland in his list of books in Glastonbury abbey, before 1533, no. 24 (see Carley 1986), and ~Joannis Lelandi

• Initial 'I'(nitium) with interlace decoration and display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' foliate border with two medallions with saints holding books (Evangelists?), at the beginning of Mark., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

Initial 'I'(nitium) with interlace decoration and display script in gold, framed by a 'Winchester style' foliate border with two medallions with saints holding books (Evangelists?), at the beginning of Mark. Includes the Epistle of Jerome to Damasus (ff. 1-2v),

• Note, in Anglo-Saxon, of the admission of Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, of Denmark, and of Norway, and his brother Harold into the confraternity, probably of Christ Church, Canterbury, certified by the names of brothers Ðorð, Kartoca, and Thuri., Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')

Note, in Anglo-Saxon, of the admission of Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, of Denmark, and of Norway, and his brother Harold into the confraternity, probably of Christ Church, Canterbury, certified by the names of brothers Ðorð, Kartoca, and

• Two large initials, 'Q' and 'L', with pen-flourishing., Versus de laude crucis; Versus morales; Versus de missa (ff. 10-18)

f[ra]tris H[e]nr[ici] de Kirkested, in quo continet[ur] narracio sumpta de libro qui uocatur Suda' and his initials (f. 72v).All parts: John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 2); listed

• Coloured initial., Life and miracles of St Swithun

Coloured initial. This manuscript contains a variety of different works concerning St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester (d. 862), including a tract on miracles attributed to him; a hymn in which the first lines begin with the letters from A

• Music to Kyrie Eleison and St Godric's Hymns., Epistola and Apologia

129-130) Initials in green or red, some with penwork decoration in the other colour. Rubrics in red. Epistola and Apologia John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 2); listed