Part 1 Early mediaeval: the library of scripture - views from Vivarium and Wearmouth-Jarrow, Jennifer O'Reilly; the canon tables of the book of Kells, Patrick McGurk; some recent metalwork discoveries from the area of the gripping valley, and their local context, Steven J. Plunkett; the high cross and monastic strategies in 8th-century Northumbria, John Mitchell; that wonderful monument - the cross-slab at Nigg, Easter Ross, Scotland, Isabel Henderson; the pre-conquest sculptures of Glastonbury monastery, Rosemary Cramp. Part 2 Three holy men: Bede's bones, Richard N. Bailey; from Bede to Rabelais - or how St. Ninian got his chain, John Higgitt; liber specialis et preciosis - an illuminated life of St. Cuthbert from Durham, Christopher Norton. Part 3 Romanesque and Gothic: a seal bag of 1095 at Burghley House, Pamela Tudor-Craig; British Library -Lansdowne Ms.383 - the Shaftesbury psalter?, C.M. Kauffmann; Worcester Cathedral chapterhouse and the harmony of the testaments, T.A. Heslop; the Duxford master - a 13th-century painter in East Anglia, David Park; one is good, two are better -the twice-appearing ass in a 13th-century English nativity, Ruth Mallinkoff; illuminating thought - the trivial arts in British Library, Burney Ms.275, Michael Camille; parallel tracks - then and now - the Cambridge Alexander apocalypse, Suzanne Lewis; a model sheet of apocalypse drawings, the 15th century Netherlandish and German manuscript apocalypses, and the early block books, Nigel Morgan. Part 4 Late mediaeval and beyond: altarpiece, image and devotion - 14th-century sculpture at Cobham, Kent, Richard Marks; the use of metals in a 14th-century East Anglian painters' workshop - the Thornham Parva retable, Spike Bucklow; this picture will come out gloriously - the restoration of the portrait of Richard II, Ian McClure; Chaucer in Italian - some remarks on the chaucer frontispiece in MS.61, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Gerhard Schmidt; Ut Poesis Pictura - the transformation of the Roman landscape in Botticelli's punishment of Korah, Eamonn O. Carragain; George III and the shift to gothic - an essay in nationalism, David Watkin.
