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of text in both margins. Borders: In red and blue ink; a 4-sided border on the first folio attached to a simple flourished initial letter 3 lines in height; Flourished Initials: Blue initial flourished with red pen-work begin Proem and
of gold, blue, pink, red. Illuminated Initials: The first illuminated initial which originally opened the Latin text and was eleven lines in depth, has been excised; for the first initial of each subsequent book in Latin, pink and blue champ
Initials: On f1 is a 7-line blue and rose parti-coloured initial with white highlighting on illuminated ground that follows shape of letter.Rose, blue, green and gold with white highlighting. On f36 a smaller blue and rose initial with same illumination
often extend the length of the stanza or gloss. Flourished Initials: A 14-line initial in red and blue penwork; 3-line red and blue initials act as subheadings; decorative tendrils in purple ink. Other Names (not owners): On folio i recto
pink or blue with decoration in orange and white on gold ground introduce books; 3-line gold initials on background of pink, blue or parti-coloured begin chapters. Miniatures: On f56v the drawing of two Noah's Arks Paragraph Marks: Blue with red
initial on gold ground with leaves inside of red, green, blue; 3-line gold illuminated initials on blue and red grounds with white highlighting. Paragraph Marks: Each sentence preceded by alternating blue or red paraphs with red or brown-gold flourishing. Other
in same pinkish rubric, all by main scribe. Borders: Bar borders of blue, gold and rose, sprays in upper and lower margins; other divisions gold letters on blue and rose grounds with sprays into margins up and down, trefoils and
red and blue paraphs several per column, red underlining of Latin and of explicits and incipits, fine red boxes around marginal notes and running titles. Flourished Initials: 3-line blue lombard initials with red penwork flourishing. Flourished Initials: 3-line blue lombard
each line, red underlining of proper names. Flourished Initials: On f1, 12-line initial 'I' in blue with red pen flourishing. Other breaks marked by 4-line blue lombard initials with same sort of red pen flourishing: the red ink in flourishing
Plougheman' and same hand writes top margin f170 'Pierce Ploughman'. Flourished Initials: (Piers booklet) f170 10-line blue initial 'I' with red flourishing; thereafter 2-line blue initials with red flourishing forming foliage pattern within and postage stamp around, extenders and tendrils
of rectos defined by blue and red alternating sleighs. Borders: Rose, white, gold, blue, yellow, red. Illuminated Initials: On first folio only. Paragraph Marks: Alternating red and blue sleighs define glosses in f1-f229. Flourished Initials: Blue with red pen-work. Other
blue with extensive white highlighting. Many further 3-line blue or pink initials with white highlighting and foliage solid inside in the alternating pink or blue with white highlighting, on gold grounds. Flourished Initials: Alternating gold with purple penwork and
on f56. 4-line gold initials on blue and rose grounds with white highlighting. Small illuminated initials for each new letter of the index. Paragraph Marks: Blue and gold in first quire, thereafter red and blue alternating with occasional gold. Other
Rubric headings by scribe, with one-line blue initials. Borders: On f1r a full border with red roses of Lancaster; gold initials on blue and red gounds with white highlighting, sprays of green, pink, red, blue, and gold foliage and flowers
of sprays (f23). Flourished Initials: Sub-headings blue lombard initials with red penwork of higher quality than illuminated initials, forming postage stamp around letter with foliage pattern inside. Each stanza begins one-line red or blue initial, red wash on first initials
8 on f171v. Illuminated Initials: On f1 4-line blue initial with white incised pattern on illuminated gold ground, rose leaves inside with white patterns. Elsewhere, 2- and 3-line gold initials on blue and rose grounds with white patterning, sprays of
no explicit or colophon. Flourished Initials: On f1ra, 7-line blue initial with red penwork flourishing forming foliage pattern inside letter; similar 3-line blue initial on f25v with slightly simpler flourishing; a blue letter of this sort, 3-5 lines high, for
folio in upper margin. Paragraph Marks: On f6r only; alternating red and blue rhyme markers on right edge of column Flourished Initials: One only on f6; 4-line blue lombard initial with pale red pen-work. Other Names (not owners): On f4v
of text Running Titles: In large elongated gothic initials with alternating blue with red penwork and gold with purple. Borders: 4-sided band border on f1 in gold, pink, blue, rose, green. Similar but not so luxurious borders to begin tales.
Paragraph Marks: Alternating red and blue paraphs mark each stanza with no space left between. Red line between stanzas also, as well as red rhyme markers to right of lines of verse. Flourished Initials: 4-6-line blue lombard initials with red