• Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean 182 / Regiment of Princes

for what is now f138 and also f155 for flyleaf now foliated f139. Quiring: 8s Signatures: Modern pencil numbering of quires in lower outer corner recto of first leaf with arabic numbers. Catchwords: By scribe in the usual place, running

• London, British Library MS Egerton 913 / Confessio Amantis

of quire / insertions are changes in hands. Signatures: Signatures of roman numerals j to viij in first half of quires 1 and 2, arabic numbers 1-4 and 6 on first 5 leaves of quire 3, all in usual place

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 686 / Canterbury Tales

top right corner recto in a later hand. Quiring: 8 Signatures: Regular fifteenth century signatures from a-z. After 'z' the quires are numbered with the symbols for 'and', 'con', and 'est' followed by the whole words 'est' and 'amen'. Catchwords:

• England, York, University of York, Borthwick Institute for Archives, Add. 196 / Piers Plowman, AC hybrid

roman numerals; modern pencil foliation in arabic numbers also upper outer corners, further to right than original. Quiring: 8s: 9 quires of 8 plus one quire of 6 Catchwords: About half way down lower margin of last folio verso of

• Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 215 / Boece

as 'possibly the penultimate leaf of a lost quire') + ii (ii excised). Signatures: Signatures in blue ink in some quires. They indicate the first four leaves by blue lines in lower right recto. In the first quire they are

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 149 / Canterbury Tales

flyleaves Pagination: Fairly modern pencil foliation in top right corner. Quiring: Originally 8's although now missing both folios and whole quires. Signatures: Some signatures still to be seen for example 'kii' and 'kiij' on ff46 and 47. Catchwords: A number

• Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 198 / Canterbury Tales

new paper + 265 (foliated 2-266) + 3 new paper Pagination: Modern, pencil, upper outer corners recto. Changed foliation for quires rebound in 1987. Quiring: 8s. Some folios which were originally misbound were corrected in the 1987 rebinding. Signatures: Few

• Oxford, New College MS 314 / Canterbury Tales

on f12, F1 on f31, N in quire 13, 'P iij' on f101, z in quire 20 and bb-gg in quires 23-28. Catchwords: By the scribe in significantly smaller script in bottom right of text box. Page Size: 272-275 x

• London, British Library MS Egerton 2864 / Canterbury Tales, Siege of Thebes

on upper outer corner rectos in roman numerals up to cclxxij on f263 of the modern foliation. Quiring: Very large quires Signatures: None. Catchwords: None Page Size: 280 x 210 Frame: Square, gray. Top line of square is minim line

• Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.15 (595) / Canterbury Tales

f141 and red crayon pagination on rectos from beginning of Canterbury Tales (9). Quiring: Mainly in 12's. Signatures: None, but quires numbered by modern pencil in lower right of first folios each quire. Catchwords: Catchwords in elaborate scrolls by scribe

• Scotland, Glasgow, Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 197 (U.1.1) / Canterbury Tales

on f17, 'gij' on f41 and part of a red ink signature on f106r. Catchwords: Regularly at the end of quires of 8 folios in the hands of the scribes and usually surrounded at the sides and along the bottom

• London, British Library, MS Sloane 3501 / Master of Game

First quire signatures trimmed and no longer visible. On f10 the second quire begins with bi-iiij. Thereafter signatures visible in quires c-f. Only the top of 'g' visible on one folio. Catchwords: Regularly in bottom right corner underlined with sleigh

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Gg.4.27 / Chaucerian poetry with the Canterbury Tales

initials each line of verse and upper case letters in prose; yellow wash down initials of verse texts in some quires. Flourished Initials: 4-line blue lombard initials, red pen-work flourishing. Other Names (not owners): According to Manly and Rickert, on

• USA, New Haven, CT, Yale University, Beinecke Library MS 493 / Hoccleve's Series followed by Regement of Princes

124) Quiring: 14s with 1, 7, 8, 14 as parchment Signatures: Signatures in lower outer corners of first half of quires, lower case letters plus roman numerals. Catchwords: By scribe, lower right of last verso, but still mostly to left

• Cambridge, Queen's College 12 / De regimine principum

extant, upper case letters plus Roman numerals i to iiii in usual place, with punctus before, between and after. For quires A,B,C,D,E, they are in same black ink as text; for ff, G, H, K they are in red ink.

• Cambridge, St John's College I.22 (223) / Regiment of Princes

outer corners recto in modern pencil only on first folio recto of each quire and on ff97 and 98 recto; quires numbered also in modern pencil in lower outer corner recto of first folio each quire, eg '4' on f26.

• London, British Library MS Harley 4826 / Regiment of Princes

numeration. Quiring: 8s Signatures: Signatures sometimes survive, lower case letter plus roman numerals i to iiij in first half of quires; sometimes with letter above the numbers as on ff44-47, with 'e' above numbers 'i' through 'iiij' or ff30-31 with

• London, British Library MS Harley 4866 / Regiment of Princes

foliation is crossed through, though thereafter the older foliation is not crossed through. Quiring: 8s Signatures: Signatures survive on many quires, beginning 'a ij and a iij on ff2 and 3. Catchwords: Occasional but not every quire, eg f69v has

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden B.11 / Confessio Amantis

in red (Prologus only, then one 'Liber on f7v and 'Primus' on f8r but stops after that). Paragraph Marks: Later quires have alternating blue and red paraphs. Flourished Initials: On f1, 5-line blue initial with red flourishing; other books begin

• London, British Library MS Royal 17 D.XIX / Regiment of Princes

quire h with last signature 'iiij' higher and 'h' lower on f61 for the quire that ends f65; then two quires with no signatures and picks up with red ones in latter half of volume. Later in volume, signatures red