• Illuminated initial 'D'(udum te) and display script at the beginning of the preface to Moralia in Job, book xvii., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

(David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library: An Appendix to the Catalogue of the Cottonian Library~ (London: printed privately, 1734), p. 203).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old

• Illuminated initial 'Q'(uotiens) and display script at the beginning book xvii of Moralia in Job., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

(David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library: An Appendix to the Catalogue of the Cottonian Library~ (London: printed privately, 1734), p. 203).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old

• Initial 'P'(lerumque) with foliate decoration at the beginning of book xviii of Moralia in Job., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

(David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library: An Appendix to the Catalogue of the Cottonian Library~ (London: printed privately, 1734), p. 203).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old

• Text page of Moralia in Job, book xviii., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

(David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library: An Appendix to the Catalogue of the Cottonian Library~ (London: printed privately, 1734), p. 203).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old

• Zoomorphic initial 'S'(ancti) with decoration in feather patterns., Moralia in Job, parts 4-6 (books 17-35)

(David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library: An Appendix to the Catalogue of the Cottonian Library~ (London: printed privately, 1734), p. 203).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old

• Ownership inscription of Kirkstead Abbey in capitals., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

wrote two commentaries on celestial hierarchies, combining them into one around 1137.The scribe of this manuscript also wrote part of London, British Library Royal 3 D. ix, the other surviving manuscript from Kirkstead in the Royal collection. 1 large initial

• Initial 'D'(ionysius) with foliate decoration., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

wrote two commentaries on celestial hierarchies, combining them into one around 1137.The scribe of this manuscript also wrote part of London, British Library Royal 3 D. ix, the other surviving manuscript from Kirkstead in the Royal collection. 1 large initial

• Initial 'P'(rimus) with decoration., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

wrote two commentaries on celestial hierarchies, combining them into one around 1137.The scribe of this manuscript also wrote part of London, British Library Royal 3 D. ix, the other surviving manuscript from Kirkstead in the Royal collection. 1 large initial

• Large initial 'I'(udei) with decoration in angular and foliate patterns., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

wrote two commentaries on celestial hierarchies, combining them into one around 1137.The scribe of this manuscript also wrote part of London, British Library Royal 3 D. ix, the other surviving manuscript from Kirkstead in the Royal collection. 1 large initial

• Initial 'H'(is) with decoration., Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius' Hierarchia caelestis (index Commentaria in Hierarchiam Coelestem S. Dionysii Areopagitae)

wrote two commentaries on celestial hierarchies, combining them into one around 1137.The scribe of this manuscript also wrote part of London, British Library Royal 3 D. ix, the other surviving manuscript from Kirkstead in the Royal collection. 1 large initial

• Coloured initial 'L'., Miscellaneous theological texts

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 188). William Forrest, according to Ker, the vicar of Bledlow, near Thame, in 1556

• null, Epistolae ex Ponto

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 217, 321).Sir Roger Twysden, (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed (ff. 2,

• null, Epistolae ex Ponto

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 217, 321).Sir Roger Twysden, (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed (ff. 2,

• null, Epistolae ex Ponto

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 217, 321).Sir Roger Twysden, (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed (ff. 2,

• Historiated initial with Peter and Paul., Bible, with prologues and the interpretations of Hebrew names

pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Bible, with prologues and the interpretations of Hebrew names W. Barrett, book-seller in London, 1607-1624: inscribed 'November 13, 1608. I sold this book and I will warrant it to be perfect [signed] W.

• Inhabited initial., Bible, with prologues and the interpretations of Hebrew names

pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Bible, with prologues and the interpretations of Hebrew names W. Barrett, book-seller in London, 1607-1624: inscribed 'November 13, 1608. I sold this book and I will warrant it to be perfect [signed] W.

• Inhabited puzzle initial including a reading figure., Liber de Apibus, etc.

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller (see below). Bought by the British Museum from Rodd on 13 August 1840 for 10s 6d, along with

• Drawing of a knight on horseback, with a lance, with an account of Macrobius and his work, and opposite, various ownership inscriptions and the book-plate of Dunn., Somnium Scipionis (ff. 3-7), with an 'Alfabetum Grecorum' (f. 1v), a diagram of consanguinity (f. 2)

Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead in 1899: his book-plate (f. iii) and pencil acuistion note (f. i); his sale, at Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1917, lot 3413, bought by the British Museum, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by

• Drawing of outline drawing of Scipio Africanus and Masinissa, under a colonnade., Somnium Scipionis (ff. 3-7), with an 'Alfabetum Grecorum' (f. 1v), a diagram of consanguinity (f. 2)

Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead in 1899: his book-plate (f. iii) and pencil acuistion note (f. i); his sale, at Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1917, lot 3413, bought by the British Museum, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by

• Puzzle initial., Miscellany, including a history of Susanna, 58 Aesopic fables (ff. 171-187), a liber 'de doctrina cordis' (ff. 5-141v); Alan of Lille's Parabolae (ff. 161-171); and Regulae theologicae (ff. 270-318v); Alan of Meaux's Metrical treatise on Susanna (ff. 1-4)

National Biography~ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12020, accessed 10 Feb 2006]. Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller (see below). Bought from Rodd by the British Museum on 13 August 1840 for 5s, along with 32