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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
Dd.vi.29 s. xiv and s. xv English Latin Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 365 233, LP 7340 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A collection of medical tracts of various dates. Only the hand of ff. 110r-124v
Huntington Library HM 125 s. xiv/xv English Latin Scribal Dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 383 231, LP 7800 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). A late fourteenth/early fifteenth-century copy (Dutschke 1989, p. 156) of the Prick of Conscience
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 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin
, M. L., ed, So Meny People Longages and Tonges: Philological Essays on Scots and Mediaeval English Presented to Angus McIntosh , Edinburgh: Middle English Dialect Project, pp. 251-264, pp. 257-259, 263, and nn. 22, 26. Lewis, R. E., and
Middle English Alliterative Poetry and its Literary Background , Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, pp. 88-100, p. 94. Doyle, A. I. 1986. Remarks on Surviving Manuscripts of Piers Plowman , in Simpson, J. and Kratzmann, G., ed, Medieval English Religious
'þer þou regnest lord and sire'. English Cf. Horstmann 1892, pp. 19-20. ff. 35v-36r Prayer to the Virgin (IMEV 3241 ) 'Swete leuedy synte marie ff ul of grace and curteysie'. 'swete ihesus amen'. English Cf. Horstmann 1892, pp. 20-21.
English Religious and Ethical Literature: Essays in Honour of George H. Russell , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 35-48, p. 37. Eljenholm-Nichols, A., Orr, M. T., Scott, K. L., and Dennison, L., ed, 2000. An Index of Images in
Lyell empt. 6 s. xv in English Scribe 1: Scribal dialect: north west Gloucestershire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 198). Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped. Scribe 2: Scribal Dialect: 'too short to assess but probably south central Midlands'
Index of Middle English Prose: Manuscripts in the Laudian Collection Bodleian Library, Oxford , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 87-88. Ogilvie-Thompson, S. J. 1991. The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist VIII, Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in
15 E.15 s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: Not analysed. Lewis and McIntosh, 'Linguistically mixed but with characteristics suggesting it was copied in Worcester' (1982, p. 120). A copy of the Prick of Conscience from the
Middle English Herbal reconstructed from Various Manuscripts , Essays and Studies on English Language and Literature, 6, Uppsala Universitet: Engelska. Dennison, L., Driver, M. W., Eljenholm Nichols, A., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of Images in English
English f. 91v South English Legendary: Feast of the Circumcision ( IMEV 4266 ) English f. 92r South English Legendary: Epiphany ( IMEV 3813 ) English f. 92r South English Legendary: Life of St. Hilary ( IMEV 2912 )
) English f. 48v South English Legendary: Feast of the Annunciation (IMEV 2989 ) English ff. 48v-49r South English Legendary: Moveable Feasts/Septuagesima (IMEV 791 ) English ff. 49r-51r South English Legendary: Lent (IMEV 1859 ) English ff. 51r-52r South English
Morris, R., ed, 1868. OldEnglish Homilies , series 1, EETS, os, 29, London: University Press, p. 245. Morris, R., ed, 1871. Legends of the Holy Rood; Symbols of the Passion and Cross Poems In OldEnglish of the Eleventh,
Amen'. English ff. 155v-158v South English Legendary: Life of St. Cecilia (IMEV 2873 ) 'Seint cecile kinne i bore was at Rome'. 'Graunte ous to þulk ioie come þer þat angles hire to ladde. Amen'. English ff. 158b-167v South English
Library Brotherton 500 s. xiv/xv English Latin Scribal Dialect (main scribe, ff. 1-147v): Worcestershire, Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 370 266, LP 7660 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 249). Lewis and McIntosh state 'North west Worcestershire' (1982, p. 56). A
in full. English f. 4v Recipe Too faded to decipher. This hand also responsible for texts on ff. 1v, 3v, 4r. English f. 5r Charm for women in childbirth 'For wemen þat trawayillit on cyldebed'. Latin EnglishEnglish rubric to
texts including the Brut , hymns, prayers and prophecies in Latin, French and English. Texts are mainly Latin with a number of French texts and some English texts. For views with regard to the scribe see Revard 2000, p. 86,
þe sauter'. Rubric in red. English ff. 1v-276r Richard Rolle of Hampole English Psalter (IPMEP 271 ) 'In þis psalme firste he spekiþ of crist & of his folweres'. 'to sle gostly fro god'. English Codex Parchment 180 120 mm
Role in Manuscript Anthologies , Yearbook of English Studies , 33, 120-130. Braswell, L. 1987. The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist IV: A Handlist of Douce Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , Cambridge: