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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
as this is a miscellaneous manuscript made up by different quires of different size. Measurements given are the overall framing size of the leaves. c. 200 c. 140 mm Originally quires of various sizes and very tightly bound. Catchwords: ff.
cover. The first three quires have had their corners folded inwards creating a 'v' shaped fold (See Tschann and Parkes 1996, p. lv, fig. 2). On the fore edge of the first three leaves of these quires there is piercing
est et fama parentum'. A book of astrological sortes translated into Latin from Arabic. Latin Codex Parchment 235 150 mm. Quires: 1 6 (plus one at end), ff. 1r-7v; 2 8 (plus one at beginning), ff. 8r-16v; 3 12 ,
with red and blue penwork. Three-line blue initials with red penwork decoration. Four-line lombardic capitals. Very little decoration in later quires. Not medieval. Size: 200 x 145 mm. Cover: red leather over pasteboard with gold stamp of two angels holding
Last four lines of text missing. Codex Parchment 290 200 mm 1-6 8 . No catchwords. Pricking: visible in all quires and regularly spaced throughout the quire; two small rounded marks, 5 mm apart, not always visible, but noticeable on
) Acephelous A f ragment only partially copied and now difficult to read. English. Codex Parchment 310 210 mm Fifteen quires. Eights. Catchwords throughout. Pricking heavily cropped. Writing space of c. 220 x 140 mm. Single columns with 31 lines.
8 ; 19 10 ; 20-23 8 . According to Rigg and Brewer (1983, p. 5) ff. 124r-139r are two quires that were 'originally separate from the rest of the manuscript'. Pricking: not visibl e. Writing space: 190 x 125.
the thirteenth-century Wooing of Our Lord . English Horstmann 1896, pp. 345-366. Westra 1950. Codex Parchment 590 390 mm The quires of the manuscript have been remounted. Catchwords: ff. 6v; 14v; 22v; 30v; 35v; 43v; 59v; 69v; 77v; 83v; 91v;
left blank in the quires he copied. Characteristics: 'steady set round anglicana' without Secretary influence (Doyle, 1987, pp. 11-12). One-line coloured (normally blue or red) or gold initials, which normally have contrasted and alternating penwork. Quires 32-36, and 41 have
No original quire or leaf signatures visible; modern quire marks added in pencil. Catchwords visible at the ends of all quires except II and VII' (McKitterick and Beadle 1992, pp. 73-74). Pricking visible - slits or double slits. Ruled for