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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
Holkham Hall, Library of the Earl of Leicester 668 s. xiv/xv English Latin Scribal Dialect: Scribe 1 - Lichfield; Scribe 2 - Lichfield; Scribe 3 - Staffordshire; Scribe 4 - too short to assess. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped
Arundel 57 s. xiv ex English Scribal Dialect: Lichfield, Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (Benskin and McIntosh 1986, p. 239; Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 79). A late fourteenth-century copy of Cursor Mundi and the Prick of Conscience
manuscript is related to London, British Library, MS Harley 1205 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. a.1 and the Lichfield subgroup throughout (1982, pp. 115-116). Dennison, L., Orr, M. T., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of
Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped but McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin state that the 'language is from Lichfield or nearby' (1986, p. 239). A late fourteenth-century copy of the Prick of Conscience (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 63). ff. 1r-125r Prick
and a few other notes. Mynors and Thomson note that this is probably John Foxholes OFM, who was at the Lichfield convent in 1436-41, and then at Oxford c. 1451, and archbishop of Armagh from 1471, and who had died
century. Catalogued and encoded by Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, 2003. Related Manuscripts Lewis and McIntosh associate this manuscript with: Lichfield Cathedral, MS 16 (Scribe 1 - strong southwestern dialect, probably Somerset, south Gloucestershire, or Wiltshire; Scribe 2 - strong