• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 Short couplets. Ends imperfect with only 24 lines (barely legible) remaining. Single letters remaining on the stub f.256ra suggest at least 29 lines lost. Apparently an attempt was made to erase the text. Edition: E. Kölbing, 'Kleine Publicationen

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 6-line stanzas, rhyming aabccb. 42 lines. Begins imperfect. Edition: H. Varnhagen, 'Zu Mittelenglischen Gedichten', Anglia, 3 (1880): 275-292. ('VII: Noch Einmal zu den Sprüchen des Heiligen Bernhard': 291-292). Another edition: D. Laing, A Penni Worth of Witte, Abbotsford

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 6-line stanzas, rhyming aabccb. 74 lines not including speaker labels. First line defective. Ends imperfect through the loss of five succeeding leaves. One other manuscript: Bodleian Library MS 1687 (Digby 86). S. W. Midlands. c.1275. Digby 86 also

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 16-line stanzas, rhyming aaabcccbdddbeeeb. Markedly alliterative. 112 lines. Unique copy. Edition: C. Carleton-Brown, Religious Lyrics of the XIVth Century (Oxford: Clarendon, 1924). Second edition revised by G. V. Smithers (Oxford: Clarendon, 1952). Other editions: C. Bullock, 'The Enemies

• The Auchinleck Manuscript

Scribe 1 A paraphrase of Psalm 51 (Vulgate Psalm 50). Short couplets. 96 lines including a lacuna on f.280va, but excluding Latin headings. The oldest version of this text. For further discussion of later and related redactions see: J. J.

• Detail of decorated initial 'U'., Mainly scientific and grammatic miscellany, including the Summa Chiromantiae (ff. 100-108v; 109-34), the Mirror of Light (ff. 155-168); Cistercian statuta and ordinationes (ff. 200-220); De sphaera (ff. 59-75); algorismus with commentary (ff. 26-43)

with a large initial in brown with interlace and foliage (f. 1). f. 221 is a paper leaf. Large diagrams of hands in brown ink (ff. 131v-134v, 169, 198). 1 large initial in red with blue and red penwork decoration

• Drawing of the Mocking of Christ., Speculum humanae salvationis, imperfect

'B', of 8 miniatures in an Italianate style c. 1380-1400 (ff. 34r-v, 39r-v, 51v, 52v, 53v, 54); and 'C' of 1 miniature, of c. 1400-1410 (f. 53). Large initials in blue. Paraphs in blue. Highlighting of letters in red. Marginal

• Drawing of the Betrayal., Speculum humanae salvationis, imperfect

'B', of 8 miniatures in an Italianate style c. 1380-1400 (ff. 34r-v, 39r-v, 51v, 52v, 53v, 54); and 'C' of 1 miniature, of c. 1400-1410 (f. 53). Large initials in blue. Paraphs in blue. Highlighting of letters in red. Marginal

• Drawing of Saul holding a spear towards David, who holds a harp., Speculum humanae salvationis, imperfect

'B', of 8 miniatures in an Italianate style c. 1380-1400 (ff. 34r-v, 39r-v, 51v, 52v, 53v, 54); and 'C' of 1 miniature, of c. 1400-1410 (f. 53). Large initials in blue. Paraphs in blue. Highlighting of letters in red. Marginal

• Drawing of the Flagellation., Speculum humanae salvationis, imperfect

'B', of 8 miniatures in an Italianate style c. 1380-1400 (ff. 34r-v, 39r-v, 51v, 52v, 53v, 54); and 'C' of 1 miniature, of c. 1400-1410 (f. 53). Large initials in blue. Paraphs in blue. Highlighting of letters in red. Marginal

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

MS. 19.2.1 Auchinleck s. xiv med English French Scribe 1: Scribal Dialect: London/Middlesex border. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 532 190, LP 6510. Scribe 2: Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 412 240, LP 6940. Scribe 3 (ff. 85r-99v): Scribal

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

leaves. Single, double, and triple columns with 47-51 lines (Scribe 1); 36-33 lines (Scribe 2); 60 lines (Scribe 3). Columns and margins usually marked (See Ker 1965, p. xvii). Scribe 1 - Textura, ff. 1-49. Scribe 2 - Anglicana, sometimes

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

of St. Justina (IMEV 2953 ) English ff. 138r-139v South English Legendary: Legend of St. Michael (IMEV 3029 ) Part 1. English Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 299-322. f. 139v South English Legendary: Life of St. Jerome (IMEV 2922 ) English