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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
Six scribes (of many) with a scribal dialect located to Warwickshire/Staffordshire. Scribe 1 (ff. 4r-21r) - Scribal Dialect: Suffolk, 'Language of Lavenham' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 116). Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 592 254, LP 8320. Suffolk.
Codex Parchment. Poor quality - thick, uneven, frequently discoloured and patched, irregular sizes. 250 180 mm One leaf (f. 1),1 8 (ff. 3r-6v, 9r-12v), 2-3 8 (ff. 13r-28v), 4-6 6 (ff. 29r-46v), 7-9 8 (ff. 47r-70v), 10 6 (ff.
English ff. 133r-139r Matthew 1 'Matheu seiþ in þe firste chapytyl on þis wyse'. ' & ne lede us not in temptacyon but delyuere us of yuel. Amen'. English Codex Parchment 180 130 mm Irregular quires: 1 8 , ff.
and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library , San Marino, Ca.: Huntington Library, 1, pp. 237-239. Hanna, R. 1984. The Index of Middle English Prose. Handlist 1. Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Henry E. Huntington Library
be in a later hand?); 61v (in a very small hand in red ink at very bottom of folio). Item 1 - Pricking not visible. Writing space: double columns with each column 280 x 95 mm with 51 lines. Frame
part 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 147. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: General Introduction, Index of Sources, Dot Maps , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aber deen University Press, 1. McIntosh,
A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford , vol. 2, part 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, vol. 2, part 1, pp. 195-196. Onions, C. T. 1929. Middle English Ord and Ende , Modern Language
300 220 mm. Twelve quires of eight. Ff. 1 and 2 originally flyleaves. First two folios blank. Quire 12 wants two leaves after f. 94. Catchwords for all quires except quire 1. Catchword in scroll with grotesque heads in profile
twelve, apart from quire 1 10 , quire 11 8 , and quire 15 10 . Catchwords throughout apart from penultimate quire, 15. Catchword on f. 10v in scroll. Pricking not visible. Writing space of 1 60 x c. 80
Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae: Pars Secunda Codices Latinos et Miscellaneos Laudianos Complectens , 2 fascicles, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1, fasc. 1, col. 428. Dennison, L., Driver, M. W., Eljenholm Nichols, A., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index
er. 280 195 mm 1 8 , ff. 3r-10v; 2 4 , ff. 11r-18v; 3 11 , 6 added, ff. 19r-29v; 4 4 , ff. 30r-37v; 5 8 , ff. 38r-46v; 6 8 , wants 1, ff. 47r-53v, catchwords; 7
medical recipe in an even later, eighteenth-century hand, + 2 paper flyleaves. Codex Paper 210 140 mm 1 5 , ff. 1r-5v, 1 possibly a singleton; 2 12 , ff. 6r-16v, wants 12, signatures i-vi; 3 12 wants all -
poet. 141 SC 14635 s. xv 1 English Scribal dialect: Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 365 295, LP 237 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 233). A fifteenth-century manuscript of the second quarter of the fifteenth century (Seymour 1997, p.
- c. 23/24. Ruling not visible. Scribe 1 (ff. 2r-6r) writing in a small cursive hand. Characteristics: double compartment g ; 2-shaped r ; B-shaped w ; double compartment a . Body height: 1 mm. Scribe 2 (ff. 7r-86r) writing
mm 1 6 , 2 6 + 1 leaf after 6; 3-5 12 ; 6 10 (wants 1-3); 7-8 12 ; 9-11 8 ; 12 8 (wants 1, 2); 13 8 (wants 8); 14 8 ; 15 6 (wants 1,
right in 1929.' 1 8 (wants 1), catchword f. 7v; 2 8 , no catchwords; 3 8 , catchword f. 23v; 4 8 , catchword f. 31v; 5 8 , catchword f. 39v, 6 8 (wants 1), catchword f. 46v
139-40. Language of Suffolk or SE Norfolk (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 146). Scribe of ff. 141r-208r, Worcestershire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 146). A manuscript of three independent sections, the first containing Walter
Ashmole 41 SC 6921 s. xv 1 English Part I: Scribal dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 392 323, LP 243 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 237). Part II: Not analysed. A composite manuscript that was originally two although
England London British Library Additional 36983 Bedford MS s. xv 1 English Scribe 1 (ff. 1-118) - Scribal dialect: Bedfordshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 102). Scribe 5 (ff. 264r-279v) - Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas
found in Part 1, and Thomas Carwardyn (f. 48v), who has written his name upside down on the last page, is probably connected with James Carwardin , whose name appears on the last page of part 1. Catalogued and encoded: