The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Epistolae Pauli glosatae.
Prologue.
f.1 Principia rerum inquirenda sunt prius
-Premittit autem salutationem dicens.
It is the gloss attributed to Peter Lombard.
The gloss on Romans begins on f.1b. The text on f.2. The text is written in a magnificent round hand twice as large as that of the gloss. The names of the authorities are in red in the margin.
Initial to prologue, fine interlaced work, and panelled stalk.
Prol. to Rom. Half-length of Paul with book.
Rom. Exquisite interlaced work in the head. In head and stalk are medallions of a blue man fighting a red man, a fox and a bear, a blue animal addressing a crowd of smaller black ones, a dragon eating a snake (?), two mailed horsemen fighting, a blue man wrestling with a bear (?). The letter is on a ground of blue.
1 Cor. f.60. Bolder design: good medallions of foliage in the stalk.
2 Cor. f.102b. The same artist as the last, a man piercing a blue beast.
Prol. to Gal, f.127b. Half-length of Paul with blank scroll.
Gal. Finest interlaced work, with white beasts. Ground of pale purplish blue.
Prol. to Eph. f.148b. Interlaced work and white beasts: rougher work.
Eph. Similar: the stalk formed by a large figure of a nude man with slate-coloured body and vermilion head.
Prol. to Phil. f.163b Similar to the last, but without the man's figure.
Phil. ditto
Prol. to Col. f.173b. As the last: a red dog from the stalk of the letter.
Col. Half-length of a white-bearded bishop in mitre cope and crozier blessing. Gold ground.
Prol. to 1 Thess. f.183. Interlaced work.
1 Thess. Paul seated, writing in a book. The letter is gold, the ground within, red, without, lilac.
Prol. to 2 Thess. f.190. Fine decorative work.
2 Thess. The stalk formed by a blue dog, head down, with dragon in mouth. In the head of the letter, gold branch-work on lilac ground: unusual and striking.
Prol. to 1 Tim. f.194b. Decorative: the stalk is a blue man with horses' hoofs.
1 Tim. Half-length of a Bishop in blue chasuble with crozier and black sash.
Initials to 2 Tim. gone.
Titus, f.209b. One initial serves for Prologue and text.
Philemon. f.213. Half-length of Paul with scroll.
Heb. f.214b. Interlaced work, with small beasts, of the finest kind.
Ends imperfectly in Heb. x.13: scabellum pedum eius.

Ker, N. R., Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 3, 2nd edn (London, 1964), St Albans

Morgan, N., Early Gothic Manuscripts I: 1190-1250, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles 4.1 (London, 1982), p. 51

McKitterick, R., and L. Lopes Cardozo, ed., Lasting Letters (Cambridge, 1992)

de Hamel, C., Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade (Woodbridge, 1984), pp. 22, 56

Thomson, R. M., Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey, 1066-1235, 2 vols. (Woodbridge, 1982), pp. 33, 54-6, 61-2, no. 13, pll. 185-8

Fingernagel, A., Romanik, Geschichte der Buchkultur 4/1-4/2 (Graz, 2007) 2 vol

Thomson, R. M., Books and Learning in Twelfth-Century England: the Ending of 'Alter Orbis' (Red Gull Press, 2006)