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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
1884. c. 130 c. 90 mm Unascertainable Double and single columns with c. 40 lines. Margins marked and ruled. Scribe 1 - ff. 1-5, small/tiny book-hand, possibly French. Body height: 1mm. Scribe 2 - ff. 6-8, early type of Anglicana,
pricking visible. Writing space: Item 1 - 145 x 90 mm. Item 2 - 155 x 90 mm. Item 3 - double columns 150 x 45 mm each. Columns are single and double. Lines: Item 1 - 27; Item 2
partibus orationis 'Evangelica clamat hystoria sine intermissione orate'. 'cum descendit in nos spiritus adop...'. Latin Codex Parchment 285 195 mm 1 8 (wants 1-5); 2-3 8 ; 4 4 ; 5 8 ; 6 8 ; 7 4 (wants 4);
Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 237). Scribal Dialect of ff. 119r-164v: Northamptonshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 147). A composite manuscript made up of five manuscripts of mainly Latin texts but including a short English
cvi and cxxvi. ff. 134r (IMEV 2742 ) 'Pees makeþ plente'. 'Grace groweth after gouernaunce'. Codex Parchment 390 280 mm 1 (8) (wants 2); 2-16 (8) ; 17 (8) (wants 8). Catchwords regular at the end of each quire: ff.7v;
comencent les singnes del iour de nouel'. 'Si le iour de noel auent par dimaines bon iuer'. French Thorndike 1923, 1, 678-9; Vising 1923, 305; ff. 41r-46r Prognostications of lucky and unlucky days according to the moon. 'Ci comence le
aros'. 'þou woll fursake me þrien are þe coc him crowe'. English Brown 1932, pp. 38-39 ; Wright 1841, vol. 1, p. 144. ff. 34v-35r Sermon 'Belial is'. A sermon sometimes attributed to Stephen Langton. See London, British Library, MS
Grid Reference: 372 244, LP 7440 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A manuscript in two parts. Part 1 is a fifteenth-century copy of a Latin chronicle of the Kings of England 900-1445 and Part 2 is a collection