• 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,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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);

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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;

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Decorated initials., Breviary, use of Mâcon, with a calendar (ff. 1-6v), imperfect

Decorated initials. ff. i-ii are used as a pastedown and flyleaf; ff. ii is a parchment flyleaf at the end; f. iii is a parchment flyleaf at the end; f. iv is a parchment leaf affixed to the lower

• Coloured initial 'O' and marginal inscription along the lower edge stating that it was written in 1272: 'Iste liber est scriptus anno 1272 . . .'., Tractatus de sphaera (index De sphera), in a mathematical and scientific miscellany

miscellany Partly written in 1272: inscribed along the lower edge: 'Iste liber est scriptus anno 1272 . . .' (ff. 1, 32).Roger Marchall (b. c.1417, d. c. 1477), physician and writer on medicine: table of contents in his hand (f.

• Diagram., Tractatus de sphaera (index De sphera), in a mathematical and scientific miscellany

miscellany Partly written in 1272: inscribed along the lower edge: 'Iste liber est scriptus anno 1272 . . .' (ff. 1, 32).Roger Marchall (b. c.1417, d. c. 1477), physician and writer on medicine: table of contents in his hand (f.

• Calendar page., Tractatus de sphaera (index De sphera), in a mathematical and scientific miscellany

miscellany Partly written in 1272: inscribed along the lower edge: 'Iste liber est scriptus anno 1272 . . .' (ff. 1, 32).Roger Marchall (b. c.1417, d. c. 1477), physician and writer on medicine: table of contents in his hand (f.

• Historiated initial 'B'(eatus) of David playing the harp, and David and Goliath, with a border including grotesque and a figural bas-de-page scene, at the beginning of the Psalms., Psalter and Book of Hours, Use of Saint-Omer

85, 100, 102, 114). Large and smaller initials in gold on red and blue grounds, developing three-sided bars. Small initials (1 line) in gold with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Line-fillers decorated in gold, red and blue.