• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

brackets to f. 24r; red titles; red and blue paraphs; top margin 'title' by scribe in black preceded by blue paraph on recto and red paraph on verso. Folio 14v - five-line blue initial T with fine red penwork flourishing

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

3mm. Four-sided border on initial page constructed of a blue, thin, inner band and an outer band made up of alternate blue and red humped lines carrying short spikes. A six-line blue initial I surrounded by red penwork, including an

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

f. 104v. Folio 1r, seven-line initial in blue and gold with foliate infill (gold on blue ground), extending into full border of double stave (pink and blue), with curling foliate decoration in blue and gold (gold almost completely rubbed off

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

3mm. Two/three-line capitals in blue with red penwork. Rubrics in red throughout and marginalia and Latin in red, particularly in the Prick of Conscience . F. 4v carries a four-line Lombardic capital in gold with a blue background decorated with

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

blue and rose with white circles and white lines. The gold bar and rose vine move down from the bottom of the initial and terminate at the bottom of the page. The bar tapers onto a triangular ground of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Rameseye'. Facsimile in P ä cht and Alexander (1973, p. 59, Plate LXVI). Two/three-line blue initials with red penwork, alternating red and blue paraphs, red and blue initials for stanzas, occasional red initials, some initials tinted red, titles and running

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

printed in Gradon 1988, p. xxx. Foliate borders in blue, pink and gold with 5-line initial on a gold ground in purple, red and blue, eg. pp. 1 and 109. Four-line blue initials with red penwork. English Biblical quotations underlined

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

each line coloured red. Initial page, ten-line blue initial I with fine red penwork extending along left and top and bottom margin forming a border. Four-line blue initials with red penwork. Two-line blue initials with red penwork extending length of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

2 mm. Decorated bar border on the first page in blue, red and gold. The twelve-line illuminated capital O on f. 1r contains a coat of arms in gold and blue which Hanna describes as ' a blazon, argent (?),

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

height: 2 mm. Initial page: five-line blue Lombardic initial with red penwork flourishing along top and left margin extending to another three-line blue Lombardic initial with red penwork forming a two-sided border. Four/five-line blue Lombardic initials with red penwork flourishing

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

white dots along middle, coloured in blue, green and brown/orange, and pairs of gold trefoil leaves. Initial P which gives rise to this border is in blue and burgundy with an infill of blue and burgundy/pink acanthus leaves decorated with

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Item 2: red paraphs, two-line blue initials with red penwork; eight-line red initials with mauve penwork (faded), three-line red initials with mauve penwork; initial letter A red and blue nine-line, with red patterned infill and blue dots; red incipits. Item

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

compartment g ; ȝ; Body height: 2mm. In red: paraphs; brackets; red box around 'headings'. Three-line blue initial T on initial page; two-line blue initials; six-line initial I . Not medieval. 235 x 160 mm. Covered in grey/green leather mitred

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Body height 2 mm. Two-line blue initials with elongated red penwork flourishing, c. 25 lines on ff. 1v, 2r, 8v, 21v, 23v, and 31v. Not medieval. Twentieth century? Size: 270 x 185 mm with blue leather on pasteboard. 'Legenda Sanctorum

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

of each line tinted red. Red paraphs. Three-line red or blue lombards for divisions in text. Some words/lines in red. F. 116v - 'AMEN' on a separate line in blue lombards with red infill and surrounded by a pattern of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Two-line red initials. Red and blue paraphs. Blue and red line fillers. One-line blue initials with red penwork forming a box around the initial. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Seven, eight, and nine-line blue initial I with red

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Initial G of Festial in red and blue; initials of first words of homilies or new subjects decorated throughout - two-line blue initials with fine red penwork spreading in margin; red and blue paraphs; following text decorated in the same

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

six-line capital I in initial position. Brackets in red. Red paraphs throughout. Item 7: c. ten-line blue initial I with red penwork flourishing and blue penwork extending along length of left margin, half way along bottom margin and whole of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Body height: 2mm. F. 1r: three-line blue initial with red penwork flourishing. Other folios: three-line blue initials with red penwork extending into margins. One-line blue or red Lombardic initials. Latin underlining in red. Blue and red paraphs. Heraldic shields: f.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

compartment a ; þ ; 8-shaped g in initial position; 2-shaped r in medial position; Body height: 3mm. Red, and blue paraphs with underlining in red. Latin in red. Only a fragment remains. Unknown Unknown Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham,