• Initial-word panel formed as a castle, with a male bust and a hare in the margin., ~Baal ha-Lashon~ (The Master of the Language)

3 unfoliated blank leaves at the end ff. [287]-[289]. Six unfoliated blank leaves after f. 2. Quires are numbered with Hebrew characters starting with alef on f. 13v until f. 163v. Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable. Ruling is

• Plain initial 'C'(ogitanti) at the beginning of the text., De oratore

Plain initial 'C'(ogitanti) at the beginning of the text. ff. 17-24 are bound in the wrong order. Catchwords written horizontally. Quire marks (Roman numerals in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of

• Text page with a note by the scribe Lupus of Ferrières in the lower margin, signalling a missing quire., De oratore

Text page with a note by the scribe Lupus of Ferrières in the lower margin, signalling a missing quire. ff. 17-24 are bound in the wrong order. Catchwords written horizontally. Quire marks (Roman numerals in the centre of the

• Initial 'I'(ncaustum) with penwork decoration at the beginning of the chapter on ink in book 1 of Theophilus' De diversis artibus., De diversis artibus and other texts including De Unguentis, recipes and extracts from the Liber de Coloribus and the Mappae Clavicula

diversis artibus. Quire marks (in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of quires 1-13). One leaf missing between ff. 102-103, another between ff. 110-111, and another between ff. 149-150. Large and smaller initials

• Initial 'B'(aldricus) with foliate motifs, a winged dragon, and clasps at the beginning of Baudri de Bourgueil's 'Historia Hierosolymitana'., Historia Peregrinationis Ierosolimitane

e-caudata.Quire marks (in ink in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires); 1 quire signature (in crayon in the centre of the lower margin of f. 25).ff. 163v and 164 are

• Initial 'S'(ixtus) with foliate motifs., Martyrology for the period from 6 August to 6 February (ff. 1-167); Passion of Catherine of Alexandria (ff. 168-171v), imperfect

margin of f. 1.Some initials have been excised; numerous parchment repairs.Catchwords; uncrossed tironian ets. and occasionally ampersands. 16 leaves (2 quires) lost between ff. 23-24; leaves lost after f. 171v.This manuscript is probably a companion volume to Harley 4896. 1

• White vine historiated initial 'O'(rigo) with the head of emperor Hadrian (inscribed 'ADRIANUS') combined with a partial white vine border, including a grasshopper, two birds and a wreath supported by two putti enclosing the arms of Ludovicus Petronius., Historia augusta

enclosing the arms of Ludovicus Petronius. Catchwords written vertically.Some damaged illegible folios.The central and flanking bifolia of one of the quires is stained, as if possibly an inlay had been removed (?) (ff. 101v-102, 103v-104, 105v-106). Large white vine historiated

• Detail of pen drawings of a male bust and a hare in the margin., ~Baal ha-Lashon~ (The Master of the Language)

unfoliated blank leaves at the end ff. [287]-[289]. Six unfoliated blank leaves after f. 2. Quires are numbered with Hebrew characters starting with alef on f. 13v until f. 163v. Flesh side and hair side are distinguishable. Ruling is visible.

• Initial-word panel with pen-flourishing and a medallion formed by foliate motifs: a rooster holding a piece of wheat with a snake coiling on it in its beak, and above the rooster, there is a moon and a hexagram; probably the emblem of the patron., ~Baal ha-Lashon~ (The Master of the Language)

emblem of the patron. 3 unfoliated blank leaves at the end ff. [287]-[289]. Six unfoliated blank leaves after f. 2. Quires are numbered with Hebrew characters starting with alef on f. 13v until f. 163v. Flesh side and hair side

• Detail of added historiated initial in the margin., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

and sometimes with faces (e.g., vol. II, f. 326v) and pen-flourishing; inconsistently tinted with a yellow wash (e.g. vol. I, quires 3-14, 35, 43). [The style of the initials, borders, and running-titles changes from the beginning of volume II, f.

• In the lower margin is an added historiated initial 'D' of God in a cloud throwing down arrows at men with swords, shields, and axes cut from an early 13th-century Magna Glossatura, pasted into the lower margin., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

and sometimes with faces (e.g., vol. II, f. 326v) and pen-flourishing; inconsistently tinted with a yellow wash (e.g. vol. I, quires 3-14, 35, 43). [The style of the initials, borders, and running-titles changes from the beginning of volume II, f.

• Detail of historiated initial 'S' with the Crucifixion., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

and sometimes with faces (e.g., vol. II, f. 326v) and pen-flourishing; inconsistently tinted with a yellow wash (e.g. vol. I, quires 3-14, 35, 43). [The style of the initials, borders, and running-titles changes from the beginning of volume II, f.

• Illuminated border with foliate decoration and animal faces, and initial ''T'(he) at the beginning of Psalm 26 (27)., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

and sometimes with faces (e.g., vol. II, f. 326v) and pen-flourishing; inconsistently tinted with a yellow wash (e.g. vol. I, quires 3-14, 35, 43). [The style of the initials, borders, and running-titles changes from the beginning of volume II, f.

• Detail of illuminated initial., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

and sometimes with faces (e.g., vol. II, f. 326v) and pen-flourishing; inconsistently tinted with a yellow wash (e.g. vol. I, quires 3-14, 35, 43). [The style of the initials, borders, and running-titles changes from the beginning of volume II, f.

• Historiated initial 'T'(he) of the tetramorph, a standing figure with the four heads of the symbols of the Evangelists of a man, an ox, an eagle, and a lion, at the beginning of Matthew., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

and sometimes with faces (e.g., vol. II, f. 326v) and pen-flourishing; inconsistently tinted with a yellow wash (e.g. vol. I, quires 3-14, 35, 43). [The style of the initials, borders, and running-titles changes from the beginning of volume II, f.

• Detail of a historiated initial of the tetramorph with the heads of the symbols of the Four Evangelists, at the beginning of Matthew., Bible in two volumes with prologues, in the Later Wycliffite version, preceded by a table of readings

and sometimes with faces (e.g., vol. II, f. 326v) and pen-flourishing; inconsistently tinted with a yellow wash (e.g. vol. I, quires 3-14, 35, 43). [The style of the initials, borders, and running-titles changes from the beginning of volume II, f.

• Multiplication table for 1 through 10, framed by four fish, a circle and three dogs chasing a hare, between chapters 26 and 27 of book 1 of Boethius' 'De institutione arithmetica'., De institutione arithmetica

'De institutione arithmetica'. Quire marks (in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of quires 1-8); quire signature (in the centre of the lower margin of the recto of the first leaf of the

• Initial 'P'(ost) with reserved designs and penwork decoration at the beginning of Arnold of Bonneval's 'De sex verbis Domini in cruce'; the final design differs from the underdrawing in crayon., De operibus sex dierum (ff. 1-30); De sex verbis Domini in cruce (ff. 31-49v); Sermons (ff. 49v-53)

in crayon. Quire marks (in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires) and catchwords (ff. 38v, 46v). 1 large initial in red and blue on a light brown ground, with penwork

• Three puzzle initials 'M'(atheus), 'M'(atheus) and 'L'(iber), with pen-flourishing and one with a lion, at the beginning of two prologues to and at the beginning of Matthew; in the outer margin is a threaded book-mark., Bible (ff. 3-476); Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 477-579)

Three puzzle initials 'M'(atheus), 'M'(atheus) and 'L'(iber), with pen-flourishing and one with a lion, at the beginning of two prologues to and at the beginning of Matthew; in the outer margin is a threaded book-mark. Catchwords; quire marks (in

• Coloured initial 'D'(omine), at the beginning of Psalm 101., Psalter, in the Roman version, with Old English gloss, and 12 canticles

Coloured initial 'D'(omine), at the beginning of Psalm 101. Includes a 'Psalter romanum', with marginal glosses in Latin and interlinear Old English gloss, attributed to Aethelwold (ff. 8-171) (see Gretsch, 1999), 12 canticles (ff. 171v-186v) and a Gloria entitled