• Miniature of Pygmalion kneeling before the statue., Roman de la Rose

Enz en la milieu', 15th century (f. 5).Added sketches of knights in armour, early 16th century? (ff. 1v-2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps to be identified with 'Le romant de la roze' in the list of books

• Detail of a miniature of Pygmalion kneeling before the statue., Roman de la Rose

Enz en la milieu', 15th century (f. 5).Added sketches of knights in armour, early 16th century? (ff. 1v-2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps to be identified with 'Le romant de la roze' in the list of books

• Miniature of Venus setting fire to the castle., Roman de la Rose

Enz en la milieu', 15th century (f. 5).Added sketches of knights in armour, early 16th century? (ff. 1v-2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps to be identified with 'Le romant de la roze' in the list of books

• Detail of a miniature of Venus setting fire to the castle., Roman de la Rose

Enz en la milieu', 15th century (f. 5).Added sketches of knights in armour, early 16th century? (ff. 1v-2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps to be identified with 'Le romant de la roze' in the list of books

• Historiated initial 'U' with an angel holding a book, a knight with a shield and spear, a crouching man, and a dragon's head forming part of the letter., Epistola de vita S. Dunstani; Life of St Dunstan

press mark 'D VII' and title (f. 2); included in the 1389 catalogue.John Joscelin [Joscelyn] (b. 1529, d. 1603), OldEnglish scholar and Church of England clergyman, Archbishop Parker's secretary (with his annotations and supplements; see Tite, 1992, p. 117).?

• Two miniatures in two compartments: the Lover (L'Amans), being pierced by an arrow, kneeling before the God of Love (Diex d'Amour) and holding a scroll reading 'Sa mon gre e sauourousaite', and 4 figures including women, a nun and a queen, all pierced by arrows holding scrolls with verses, including 'Lonc temps vivre ne pouray', 'Ay ay nus ne doit amer', 'Dame merci si forment', 'lonc temps servi ay', 'Parmi la forest damours', 'Joliaitement me maintendray', 'Qui longuement pourait', 'Longue demouree fet', 'Je ne lay mie mes vous', 'Ma dame ie vous aim', 'Vray diex que feray iane', 'Lasse iai failli a ioie'., Roman de la Rose

Enz en la milieu', 15th century (f. 5).Added sketches of knights in armour, early 16th century? (ff. 1v-2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps to be identified with 'Le romant de la roze' in the list of books

• Two miniatures in two compartments: 8 figures including men, women, monks and a nun, all pierced by arrows holding scrolls with verses, 'Lonc temps vivre ne pouray', 'Ay ay nus ne doit amer', 'Dame merci si forment', 'lonc temps servi ay', 'Parmi la forest damours', 'Joliaitement me maintendray', 'Qui longuement pourait', 'Longue demouree fet', 'Je ne lay mie mes vous', 'Ma dame ie vous aim', 'Vray diex que feray iane', 'Lasse iai failli a ioie'., Roman de la Rose

Enz en la milieu', 15th century (f. 5).Added sketches of knights in armour, early 16th century? (ff. 1v-2).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps to be identified with 'Le romant de la roze' in the list of books

• Puzzle and flourished initials., Tractatus de practica officii Inquisitionis heretice

the upper right corner, f. 170 of the old foliation is missing. 2 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in purple and red and decorated extension in red and blue (ff. 1, 3). Small initials in red

• Puzzle initial., Tractatus de practica officii Inquisitionis heretice

upper right corner, f. 170 of the old foliation is missing. 2 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in purple and red and decorated extension in red and blue (ff. 1, 3). Small initials in red with

• Decorated initial at the beginning of the canon of the mass., Cistercian Missal, imperfect

mass. f. 8* is a small parchment insertion.One of five English Cistercian missals currently known (see Chadd 1986 p. 306). 3 large initials in blue or green, with red penwork decoration, or in red with blue penwork decoration, at the

• Historiated initial of a scholar, with a partial border., Miscellany, including Patefit, Electiones laudabiles, Sermo de regulis compotistarum, Canones eclipsium, Ad habendam diversitatem aspectus lune pro situ in epiciclo

from Scott together with other 311 manuscripts from Theyer's library. Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Scholar Iohannis de Ianua, Iohannes (Danck) de Saxonia and others France, Central (Paris)

• Decorated initial 'A'(d) and coloured initials 'E'(xcita) and 'F'(ratres)., Cistercian Missal, imperfect

f. 8* is a small parchment insertion.One of five English Cistercian missals currently known (see Chadd 1986 p. 306). 3 large initials in blue or green, with red penwork decoration, or in red with blue penwork decoration, at the canon

• Miniature of the Lamb with the Manus Dei, the Evangelists' symbols, and 24 Elders, at the beginning of Revelation 5:6., Apocalypse (Revelation)

pen-flourishing. Apocalypse (Revelation) The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 14.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. The vision

• Miniature of the Lamb receiving a book with the seven seals from Christ enthroned with the Evangelists' symbols and 24 Elders, at the beginning of Revelation 5:7., Apocalypse (Revelation)

pen-flourishing. Apocalypse (Revelation) The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 14.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. The vision

• Penwork initial., Bible (Genesis to Tobit) with Jerome's letter to Paulinus, Preface and Prologues

on the same folio the English 'blere eyed' is written in the margin as a gloss to the following 'eiant blaimcheure es oels', ~having blemished eyes~ (f.80).the French for ‘thorns’ is omitted and the English 'stake' is written in the

• Puzzle initial 'C' with pen-flourishing in a leaf pattern. Decorated initials., Lancelot du Lac (imperfect at the beginning and end)

(imperfect at the beginning and end) The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): in the catalogue of 1666 (f. 11v).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Puzzle initial England

• Coloured initial 'D'(ominus), at the beginning of book 9 of the Liber scintillarum., Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses

de vitiis et peccatis' (ff. 100v-106), with continuous interlinear gloss in Old English.Numerous margins excised. Large initials in red and green. Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with OldEnglish glosses The Benedictine priory of Holy Trinity, or Christ Church,

• Coloured initial 'D'(ominus), at the beginning of book 10 of the Liber scintillarum., Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses

de vitiis et peccatis' (ff. 100v-106), with continuous interlinear gloss in Old English.Numerous margins excised. Large initials in red and green. Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with OldEnglish glosses The Benedictine priory of Holy Trinity, or Christ Church,

• Puzzle initial 'O' with penwork decoration in a leaf pattern., Lancelot du lac (Part 1)

owned by her (see Carley 2000).Franceys de Brache[chen]: his name inscribed on f. i in a 15th/16th-century hand.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps included in the inventory of the library of Richmond Palace in 1535 (no. 99)

• Decorated initial 'Chi-rho', with a zoomorphic decoration, at the beginning of Matthew; and an added Old English text of a manumission by king Athelstan., Gospel Book

Decorated initial 'Chi-rho', with a zoomorphic decoration, at the beginning of Matthew; and an added OldEnglish text of a manumission by king Athelstan. The manuscript contains a text of a manumission by King Athelstan, one of the earliest of