• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Virginia Hench 10 Aldenham s. xiv 2 English Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 448 277, LP 534 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). A late-fourteenth century copy of the Prick of Conscience copied by a single scribe

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Duke of Devonshire's MS s. xv English Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 423 276, LP 65 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). A fifteenth-century copy of Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection . ff. 1r-61v Walter Hilton Scale

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

South English Legendary: Life of St. Frideswitha (IMEV 2900 ) f. 145v South English Legendary: Life of St. Fremund (IMEV 3192 ) f. 154r South English Legendary: Life of St. Petronilla (IMEV 3049 ) ff. 155r-157v South English Legendary: Old

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

English f. 91v South English Legendary: Feast of the Circumcision ( IMEV 4266 ) English f. 92r South English Legendary: Epiphany ( IMEV 3813 ) English f. 92r South English Legendary: Life of St. Hilary ( IMEV 2912 )

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Morris, R., ed, 1868. OldEnglish Homilies , series 1, EETS, os, 29, London: University Press, p. 245. Morris, R., ed, 1871. Legends of the Holy Rood; Symbols of the Passion and Cross Poems In OldEnglish of the Eleventh,

• Coloured initial 'D'(ominus), at the beginning of book 9 of the Liber scintillarum., Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses

de vitiis et peccatis' (ff. 100v-106), with continuous interlinear gloss in Old English.Numerous margins excised. Large initials in red and green. Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with OldEnglish glosses The Benedictine priory of Holy Trinity, or Christ Church,

• Coloured initial 'D'(ominus), at the beginning of book 10 of the Liber scintillarum., Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with Old English glosses

de vitiis et peccatis' (ff. 100v-106), with continuous interlinear gloss in Old English.Numerous margins excised. Large initials in red and green. Liber scintillarum and other theological collections, with OldEnglish glosses The Benedictine priory of Holy Trinity, or Christ Church,

• Petrucchio Ubaldini's letter of dedication addressed to Elizabeth I and dated 1577., Le Vite e i Fatti di sei Donne Illustri, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth (descriptions of six mythical or early princesses: Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, Clotilda of France, Suanhuita (or Suanvita) of Sweden, Jutha (or Judith), daughter of the Emperor Otho II, Zarina, Queen of the Sacae, and Venda (or Wanda), Queen of Poland.

and Gilson 1921).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1661, Royal Appendix 86, f. 42, no. 2.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Dedication

• Foliate initial 'C'(lemens) with a medallion of a portrait of the author, pope Clement I, at the beginning of the text., Collectio Lanfranci

(f. 249).The Benedictine abbey of St Peter, Gloucester, inscribed 'Lib[er] monast[er]ii Sa[ncti] Petri Gloucestr[ie]', 14th century (f. 1).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Henrician title 'Concilia venerat[a]' and Westminster inventory number 'no. 1029' (f. 1), acquired by the

• Detail of miniature of Bel-Acoeil talking to the old woman., Roman de la Rose (ff. 2-175v), la Bataille d'Annezin (a burlesque chanson in 50 alexandrines), beginning 'A l'entrée de may / quivers va a declin' (ff. 176v-177)

Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 13 or 14.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Bel-Acoeil talking to the old woman

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

nine MSS of the South English Nativity of Mary and Christ (part of the South English Legendary) contain closely related texts. Edition: O. S. Pickering, The South English Nativity of Mary and Christ, Middle English Texts 1 (Heidelberg: Winter, 1975).

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Edition: M. Wattie, The Middle English Lai le Freine', Smith College Studies in Modern Languages, vol. 10, no. 3 (Northampton, Mass.: Smithe College, 1928). (Critical edition). Other editions: A. Laskaya and E. Salisbury, The Middle English Breton Lays (Michigan: Medieval

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

1966). Other editions: A. Laskaya and E. Salisbury, The Middle English Breton Lays (Michigan: Medieval Publications for TEAMS, 1995). (Includes an electronic version of the text). D. B. Sands, Middle English Verse Romances (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1986). B. Ford,

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

S. J. H. Herrtage, The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum, EETS ES 33 (London: Trübner, 1879; reprinted 1962): 498-499. R. P. Wülcker, Altenglisches Lesebuch (Halle: Niemeyer, 1874-80). A. J. Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, Chaucer Society, Second Series,

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

591 lines, not including Latin speech-labels or the English title. Ends perfect but with loss of line ends on f.35ra. Six other manuscripts of variant versions: BL Additional MS 22283 (Simeon). W. Midland. 1380-1400. Simeon also has The King of