• null, Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• null, Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• null, Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• null, Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• null, Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• Detail of historiated initial of Luke with an ox's head., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• null, Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• Text page at the beginning of Abbo of St-Germain's ~Bella Parisiacae urbis~, book 3, with red initial and highlights., Alcuin, De orthographia (ff.1-24v); Bede, De orthographia (ff. 24v-71); Bella Parisiacae urbis, book 3 (Ad clericos) (ff. 71v-84); unidentified smaller text with glossary material (ff. 84-86v); De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 4 (De arte dialectica) (f. 87-149); Glossaries to Greek and Latin grammar texts, including lists of grammatical and metrical terms and glosses to Juvenal (ff. 150-167v).

marks between ff. 1-71v; corrections and erasures between ff. 150-159. Folio 93v is blank. Marked change in parchment quality in quires xx-xxii. Two Latin-Old English glosses on f. 166. Bishop proposes that the scribe of Harley 3826 reappears in Lincoln,

• Zoomorphic initial 'C'(onsummatis) with two hybrids and foliate motifs, at the beginning of the 8th of John Cassian's Collationes; three smaller initials 'G'(ermanus), 'S'(erenus) and 'D'(e) with penwork decoration; simple initials in the list of chapters., Collationes of the Fathers (ff. 1v-115); Rite for the consecration of bells (ff. 115v-116).

(a1-a4, b1-b4 etc.); quire marks (in centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires). 2 large zoomorphic initials with winged dragons, outlined in red, on green and blue grounds, with foliate motifs (ff.

• Historiated initial with the Adoration of the Magi at Sext in the Hours of the Virgin, with a hybrid creature in the lower margin., Psalter-Hours

228v). Line-fillers in gold, blue and red ink (some with fish or snake). Sketched peacock in margin (f. 249). Psalter-Hours Quires have been numbered in a post-medieval hand.The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl

• Decorated initial 'M'(undus) with reserved designs and penwork decoration, at the beginning of the 7th tract of Augustine's 'In epistulam Johannis ad Parthos tractatus X'., Enchiridion (ff. 2-47); In epistulam Johannis ad Parthos tractatus X (ff. 47-121v)

Decorated initial 'M'(undus) with reserved designs and penwork decoration, at the beginning of the 7th tract of Augustine's 'In epistulam Johannis ad Parthos tractatus X'. ae caudatas; quire mark (in the centre of the lower margin of f. 9v)

• Initials 'R'(es) and 'A'(nno) with penwork decoration, at the beginning of William of Malmesbury's 'Gesta regum Anglorum'., Gesta regum Anglorum (ff. 4-103v); Gesta pontificum Anglorum (ff. 108-167); Henry of Sawtrey's De purgatorio S. Patricii (ff. 167v-175)

sets of quire marks (in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires) for ff. 4-108 ('i'-'xiii') and ff. 108-155 ('i'-'vi'); catchwords.Perhaps the exemplar for Harley 528 (see Watson 1966, p. 331

• Historiated initial 'F'(rater) depicting Jerome and Damasus (above), and Jerome and Ambrose (below), with the ownership inscriptions of Abbot Robert de Bello at the top of the page and under the feet of the peacock., Bible with prologues, without Psalms ('The Bible of Robert de Bello')

first and last historiated initials: 'Abbe. bono. / Robe. Aug'i (?)' (f. 2) and 'bono robe. abb.' (f. 506v); many quires are marked 'em(en)dat(us)' (e.g. ff. 42, 54, 78, 282).The Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, second half of the

• Text page., Epistolae and religious tracts

~Exhortationes~ (ff. 108-176).Catchwords. Quires numbered in roman numerals (i-xxii) on final versos. Quires i-vii, ix have been marked 'correctus sum' in on the final versos. Corrections and additions have been made to the ~Epistolae~ within these quires. 5 illuminated initials

• Initial 'H'(enrico) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the ~Compendium in Iob~ of Peter of Blois., Epistolae and religious tracts

~Exhortationes~ (ff. 108-176).Catchwords. Quires numbered in roman numerals (i-xxii) on final versos. Quires i-vii, ix have been marked 'correctus sum' in on the final versos. Corrections and additions have been made to the ~Epistolae~ within these quires. 5 illuminated initials

• Initial 'H'(enrico) with foliate decoration at the beginning of the prefatory epistle to Henry II in Peter of Blois' ~Epistolae~., Epistolae and religious tracts

~Exhortationes~ (ff. 108-176).Catchwords. Quires numbered in roman numerals (i-xxii) on final versos. Quires i-vii, ix have been marked 'correctus sum' in on the final versos. Corrections and additions have been made to the ~Epistolae~ within these quires. 5 illuminated initials

• Initial 'D'(um) decorated with a bird at the beginning of the ~Exhortationes~ of Peter of Blois., Epistolae and religious tracts

~Exhortationes~ (ff. 108-176).Catchwords. Quires numbered in roman numerals (i-xxii) on final versos. Quires i-vii, ix have been marked 'correctus sum' in on the final versos. Corrections and additions have been made to the ~Epistolae~ within these quires. 5 illuminated initials

• Puzzle initial 'P'(anis) and smaller initials with pen-flourishing., Pantheologus, books 2 and 3

(Roman numerals on the verso of the last leaf of the quires), and inscribed 'Emend.' on the verso of the last leaf of most quires, indicating that these quires were corrected.Space left blank on ff. 117r-v, at the end of

• Historiated initial 'E'(t rex) of David and Abisag, at the beginning of Kings III., Bible, with the interpretation of Hebrew names

Historiated initial 'E'(t rex) of David and Abisag, at the beginning of Kings III. Includes the Interpretation of Hebrew names, imperfect (ff. 340v-347v).Quires signatures on the recto of each first folio of a quire, catchwords, guide running titles and

• Historiated initial 'C'(onfortatus) of Salomon enthroned, at the beginning of Chronicles II., Bible, with the interpretation of Hebrew names

Historiated initial 'C'(onfortatus) of Salomon enthroned, at the beginning of Chronicles II. Includes the Interpretation of Hebrew names, imperfect (ff. 340v-347v).Quires signatures on the recto of each first folio of a quire, catchwords, guide running titles and guide chapter