• Initial 'E'(cce) with foliate decoration., Enarrationes in Psalmos (Volume 3)

and in the catalogue of 1202, no. 6 as 'super psalterium in tribus magnis voluminibus' (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 81' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books

• Anthropomorphic initial 'Q'(uantium) with a man, and two dogs., Enarrationes in Psalmos (Volume 3)

and in the catalogue of 1202, no. 6 as 'super psalterium in tribus magnis voluminibus' (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 81' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books

• null, Enarrationes in Psalmos (Volume 2)

and in the catalogue of 1202, no. 6 as 'super psalterium in tribus magnis voluminibus' (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 81' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books

• null, Enarrationes in Psalmos (Volume 2)

and in the catalogue of 1202, no. 6 as 'super psalterium in tribus magnis voluminibus' (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 81' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books

• null, Enarrationes in Psalmos (Volume 2)

and in the catalogue of 1202, no. 6 as 'super psalterium in tribus magnis voluminibus' (see English Benedictine Libraries 1996).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 81' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books

• Miniature of a king, with an orb in his hand, giving instructions to a group of men, at the beginning of book 3., De la chose de la chevalerie

f. ii, 16th century.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. King Jeanne

• Detail of a miniature of Innocent IV writing, with another pope kneeling before a cardinal and a scholar (Innocent IV?) dictating to a scribe, at the beginning of book 1., Apparatus in quinque libros Decretalium

amen. amen' (f. 221v).Inscribed 'Radulphus', 14th century (f. 1).Added running titles for rubrics and marginal glosses, 14th-century English hand.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 422' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in

• Detail of an historiated initial 'V' of a celebration of a mass, at the beginning of book 3., Apparatus in quinque libros Decretalium

amen. amen' (f. 221v).Inscribed 'Radulphus', 14th century (f. 1).Added running titles for rubrics and marginal glosses, 14th-century English hand.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 422' (f. 1), included in the inventory of books in

• Detail of miniature of Bel-Acoeil talking to the old woman., Roman de la Rose (ff. 2-175v), la Bataille d'Annezin (a burlesque chanson in 50 alexandrines), beginning 'A l'entrée de may / quivers va a declin' (ff. 176v-177)

Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 13 or 14.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Bel-Acoeil talking to the old woman

• Detail of a marginal drawing of two scholars pointing at geometrical figures., Sophistici Elenchi, Topica, Analytica Priora, Analytica Posteriora

(b. 1395, d. 1461/5) of Witton, Durham, and Old Malton, Yorkshire: inscribed 'Textus nove logice magi[str]i Willielm[i] Eure', and 'magister Will[el]m[us] Eure Eure', 15th century (ff. 210v, 211).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of

• Less colourful than the first two major divisions at Psalms 1 and 51, the large decorated initial 'D'(omine) and display capitals at the beginning of Psalm 101 are here executed in just blue and red, with some details in orange. Between the lines of the main Latin text is a translation in Old English., Psalter, in the Roman version (ff. 4-95), with canticles (ff. 96-104), a short litany (f. 104), a hymnal (ff. 105-128) and monastic canticles (ff. 129-135); added calendar (ff. 2,3) (the 'Bosworth Psalter')

orange. Between the lines of the main Latin text is a translation in OldEnglish. 29 Psalms and 6 canticles have an interlinear gloss in OldEnglish (ff. 32-33, 34, 38v, 40, 43, 54v-55, 64v-65v, 77v-87, 90-92, 101-103).The text of

• Puzzle initial 'A'(nno) in blue and red., Historia Anglorum (in ten books)

blue and red. Incipit: Britannia igitur beatissima est insularumThe text covers the reigns of English kings up to Stephen (d. 1154).f. 157: a brief summary of English history, added by a later hand, extending from Henry II to Edward I,

• Miniature of the presentation of the Decretals to Gregory IX by Raymond of Penyafort, at the beginning of book 1., Decretals of Gregory IX, with glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma

king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine, in French, 14th-century English hand (f. 347).Added glosses, 14th century.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 174' (f. 1), included in the inventory of

• Detail of a miniature of the presentation of the Decretals to Gregory IX by Raymond of Penyafort., Decretals of Gregory IX, with glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma

king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine, in French, 14th-century English hand (f. 347).Added glosses, 14th century.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 174' (f. 1), included in the inventory of

• Detail of a miniature of a priest performing a marriage ceremony, at the beginning of book 4., Decretals of Gregory IX, with glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma

king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine, in French, 14th-century English hand (f. 347).Added glosses, 14th century.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 174' (f. 1), included in the inventory of

• Miniature of a priest performing a marriage, and a foliate initial 'D'(e Francia), at the beginning of book 4., Decretals of Gregory IX, with glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma

king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine, in French, 14th-century English hand (f. 347).Added glosses, 14th century.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 174' (f. 1), included in the inventory of

• Text page., Decretals of Gregory IX, with glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma

king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine, in French, 14th-century English hand (f. 347).Added glosses, 14th century.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 174' (f. 1), included in the inventory of

• Text of the Lord's Prayer in English in a pre-Wycliffite version., Corrogationes Promethei; Hypomnesticon contra pelagianos et caelestianos; miscellaneous works of Augustine; sermons attributed to Caesarius

1).Added Lord's Prayer, in English in a pre-Wycliffite version (for the transcription, see David Casley, ~A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King’s Library~ (London, 1734), p. 78), mid-14th century (f. 307).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster

• Detail of a miniature of a priest performing a marriage ceremony, at the beginning of book 4., Decretals of Gregory IX, with glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma

king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine, in French, 14th-century English hand (f. 347).Added glosses, 14th century.The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 174' (f. 1), included in the inventory of

• Detail of a miniature of the English at sea; miniature of the battle of the men of Ghent and the count of Flanders., Chroniques de France ou de St Denis (from 1270 to1380)

was duke of Gloucester, before his accession to the throne in 1483: inscribed, 'Richard Gloucestre' (f. 134). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 102; and in