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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
writing in an Anglicana hand. Scribe ?4, ff. 176r-178v. Two-line Lombardic capitals in blue with red penwork decoration to indicate the beginning of texts. Red and blue paraphs and red boxed rubrics (e.g., f. 18). Catchwords are often boxed and
each line infilled with red. F. 1r: Large blue initial S of 'Stimulus' with elongated red penwork topped with a crown, outlined in blue and infilled with red. Two-line initials in blue with red flourished penwork - ff. 3v, 4r,
ff. 13r-20v: three-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing along margin (first letter of each Psalm). One-line red and blue Lombardic capitals. Red underlining. Text 3, ff. 21r-25v: three-line blue initial with red penwork begins text. Two-line blue initials with
two/three-line blue Lombardic initials with red penwork with red penwork infill. Frequent alternate red and blue paraphs. First initial of text: five-line Lombardic initial A with serrated pattern of blue and red with red penwork infill and red and blue
initials to start paragraphs, red paraphs, some initials tinted red. F. 100r - two-line blue initials, red Latin phrases, red rubric; f. 100v - six-line blue initial with rudimentary red penwork; f. 107v, 111r - six-line red initial þ ;
eleven-line blue initial I with red penwork flourishing in left margin and along top creating a two-sided border. Three-line blue initials with red pen work flourishing for other textual divisions (see Benson and Blanchfield 1997, p. 68, pl. 8). Blue
yogh; 2-shaped r . Body height: 2mm. Each item started by a two/three-line gold initial on a quartered rose and blue ground with white filigree infill with a spray growing from ascenders and descenders of black lines and carrying a
position. Body height 1.5-2mm. Eleven-line blue initial I with red penwork extending along left and top margin begins first text. Other texts begin with three-line initials with fine red penwork e.g. f. 9r. Two-line blue initials with red penwork throughout.
Elaborate five-line lombardic capital (f. 1r) in red, blue and gold with border running over the left side of the text and around 3/4 of the writing frame. Initials of passus in blue with pen ink flourishing in red. Rubrics,
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,
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
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
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.
'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
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
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
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
fairly large elongated leaves - orange, blue, pink (not rose), dark pink/red/burgundy, white circles. Border Artist 2: ff. 5r, 7r-8r, 62r-93v, 98v-118r, 124r, 125v, 126r, 128v, 129r, 135r-143r, 163v. Characteristics: gold bar and blue bar with initial decorated with serrated
49). Probably an Augustinian canon at Haughmond Abbey. In red: scribal numbering; titles; colophons; brackets; paraphs. Two-line red initials. Three-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Drawing of the Holy Face on the Vernicle. Nine lines deep over one column