It appears to have belonged to the abbey at Barking, a gift of tithes at Laleseie, by Adam, son of Leomar de Cochefeld, being entered on a leaf at the end by order of the abbess Ælfgiva. Now numbered Bodl. 155. 4. The famous _Anglo-Saxon metrical paraphrase_ of parts of Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, &c. by Cædmon[382]; illustrated, as far as Abraham's journey into Egypt, with a very curious series of drawings. The MS. is considered to have been written about A.D. 1000. The latest description of the volume is in Westwood's magnificent book of _Fac-similes_. See p. 102. 5. The _Psalter_, _Canticles_, &c., in Latin, with a Calendar; written in the first half of the eleventh century. Noticed in Westwood's _Miniatures and Ornaments_, &c., p. 122. Douce, 296. 6. A twelfth-century volume containing, besides various historical works, a _Bestiary_, or Natural History of Beasts, illustrated with very curious drawings. Given by Archbp. Laud. 7. A _Bestiary_ of the beginning of the thirteenth century, enriched with many very curious paintings upon a ground of brilliant gold. Ashmole, 1511. 8. Another _Bestiary_, of slightly later date, illuminated in the same manner. Bodl. 764. 9. The _Apocalypse_, illustrated in a series of very curious drawings, lightly coloured. Executed about 1250. These illuminations have been pronounced by Mr. Coxe, to be, with little or no doubt, executed by the same hand as those of MS. Ee. III. 59. in the University Library, Cambridge, a volume which contains a Life of Edward the Confessor, in French verse, and which was printed in 1858, under the editorship of H. R. Luard, M.A., in the series of Chronicles published under the authority of the Master of the Rolls. In this Life is found a particular description of Westminster Abbey, which is not elsewhere met with, and it is consequently inferred that the writer was a monk of that church. And in the course of the restorations which are now being carried on in the Chapter House (which was built about 1250), a series of mural paintings, illustrating the history of St. John, has been brought to light, one of which is a representation similar to that in the Bodley MS. of St. John 'ante portam Latinam,' and in both cases the cauldron bears the same inscription of '_Dolium_ ferventis olei.' 10. A _Primer_, written about the middle of the fourteenth century. The arms of Edw. III (England 1 and 4, France 2 and 3) are painted on the first leaf. One of Rawlinson's MSS. 11. A beautiful _Psalter_, which belonged to Peterborough Cathedral.