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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
England Oxford Bodleian Library Laud Misc. 601 SC 1491 s. xiv ex English Scribal Dialect: South East Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 393 198, LP 6980 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A late fourteenth-century, c. 1374-1400,
compartment a ; 2-shaped r in final position; looped ascender on d . Also see Additions. Two-line Lombardic blue initials. Red and blue paraphs. Not medieval. Size: 250 x 170 mm. Cover of brown leather over pasteboard. Five raised bands
initial F . It is blue with a pattern of red triangles on the left leg and infilled with red leaves with a green background. Three-line initials in blue with crude brown (oxidised) and blue penwork. Place names underlined in
throughout, see Ker 1963, pp. xvi-xvii. Item 1: alternate red and blue initials at each quatrain. Two-line blue initials with red penwork to begin introduction to text. Four-line blue initial with red penwork to begin text proper. Other texts: decoration
120 mm. Covered in red leather and fabric mitred and pasted onto pasteboard. Inside cover 'marbled' paper in red and blue. Four raised bands across the spine. Shield with supporting angels and scroll at bottom -'VIRTUTE ET FIDE' on front
b , and l; B-shaped s in final position; 2-shaped r in final position. Body height: 3mm. Item 1: two-line blue initials, one-line red initials, red glosses, initials in text tinted red. Index signs, such as hands ff. 16v, 17v.
33 lines ruled in pencil. Several different hands writing in small and compact Secretary scripts influenced by Anglicana. Capitals in blue with red penwork. Some eleborate ascenders in brown ink (e.g. ff. 135-136). Medieval binding. Size: 230 x 150 mm.
beginning of text; one-line red initials within text. F. 118r: four-line red initial R with blue penwork flourising. F. 148v: three-line red initial with blue penwork flourishing. Not medieval. Note on f. 2v, 'The flyleaves (ff. 1,2,168,169) being two leaves
on wodebynde it sleeþ þe cancre in þe mouþe and ouer alle'. 'Magister willelmus leche de kylingholme' is written in blue ink. Killingholme is in north east Lincolnshire, north west of Grimsby. English f. 108v Man of Signs - drawing
'Anno domini MCCCCxx' (1420). Twenty full bar borders in blue and violet, some with floral clusters (for a detailed description see Hanna 2002, p. 128-129). Three to five-line champ initials. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Rubrics and marginalia
colophon in red. Item 2 - in the margin are five rough pictures of bleeding wounds. Item 3 - two-line blue lombards, some letters tinted red, red paraphs. Item 4 - Prologue, first column and a half, in red. Not
8-shaped s in final position; forked ascender on h and l ; elongated and spurred ascenders on top line. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Red rubrics. Red paraphs. Eighteenth century brown calf over pasteboard. ff. iii + 90
red; couplets linked by squared red brackets formed from wiggly lines. Not medieval. Size: 155 x 100 mm. Covered in blue cloth with a dark green leather spine. Mitred and pasted onto pasteboard. Five raised bands across the spine. No
2 mm. In red: Latin lines in first text; one-line initials until f. 51; red 'titles' in margin. One three-line blue initial with red flourishes on f. 3r. Not medieval. Size: 215 x 135 mm. Covered in brown leather mitred
for the first one, 'Advent Sonday' (brown), rubrication throughout. Red paraphs throughout. F. 1r: initial G of 'Go de' - blue with red flourishing. Other first letters are red. Nota bene: hand - ff. 60r, 97v. Not medieval. Size: 230
brown ink in an early fourteenth-century Anglicana hand. Body height: 2 mm. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing - swirls rather than foliate. Two-line red and blue paraphs. Not medieval. Size: 310 x 190 mm. Covered in dark brown/black
printed in Brown 1927, fr ontispiece. Purple, blue and gold border with miniature of St. Andrew, in blue, bound to a saltire cross, on a gold ground in the initial, p. 1. Four-line blue initials with red penwork at the
the letter on the right side. & used regularly. Body height: 4 mm. First initial of text eight-lines deep with blue ground and red penwork but now much damaged. Red words in text, mostly names. Two-line red initials. Not medieval.
was written by one scribe, apart from some lines on f. 20r, who wrote in an 'unpractised Anglicana hand'. Large blue initial with red penwork extending along the left margin and top of the leaf on f. 3r, St. Michael.
Scribe 2: ff. 200v-203v - a roughly contemporary Anglicana book hand. Paragraph marks, alternately red and blue in the South English Legendary . Two-line blue initials with red pen- work flourishes in the South English Legendary . First letter of