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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
have holes, corners seem to have been gnawed. 300 mm 205 mm iii + 1-2 8 , 3 6 + 1, 4 8 , 5 10 , 6 4 , 7 2 , 8-10 8 , 11 6 , 12
4733 s. xv med English Scribe 1: Scribal dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 391 277, LP 7600 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 249). Scribe 2: Scribal dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 410 262, LP 4681 (McIntosh, Samuels
SC 21715 s. xv in English Scribe 1, ff. 1r-96v: Scribal dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 432 243, LP 8050 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 245). Scribe 2, ff. 97r-129v: Scribal Dialect: Oxfordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid
central Staffs. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 239). Scribe of f. 302r (line 1) to 302r (line 15) - Scribal Dialect: N Staffs. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin
Weobley, all in West Herefordshire. Fifteenth-century addition. Codex Parchment 250 160 mm 1 10 ; 2-8 12 ; 9 2 ; 10-13 12 ; 15 11 (wants 1); 16-17 10 ; 18 14 ; 19 12 ; 20 10 ;
Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 350 284, LP 80 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, 1986, vol. 1, pp. 164-165). A manuscript containing John Mirk's Festial and saints' lives produced in the late fifteenth century (Ker 1992, p. 351). Wakelin suggests 'just after
love on rode can hynge'. 'Explicit expliceat ludere scriptor...þis boke is cald prik of conciense'. Codex Parchment 170-75 110-15 mm 1 8 , ff. 2r-9v, catchword; 2 8 , ff. 10r-17v, catchword; 3 8 , ff. 18r-25v; 4 8 ,
visible. Writing space of 200 x 120 mm. Single columns with 30-38 lines. Frame and lines ruled in drypoint. Text 1 by one scribe writing in an Anglicana script with Secretary influences in a now faded brown ink. Hand begins
The Bodleian Library, Oxford, MSS Additional - Digby , vol. 1, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, p. 93, no. 413. Hanna, R. 1984. The Index of Middle English Prose. Handlist 1. Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Henry
Pricking: none visible. Writing space of 150 x 105 mm. Single columns with 26-27 (scribe 1) and 25-30 (scribe 2) lines. Ruling in drypoint. Scribe 1 - ff. 1r-171r: writing in a professional Anglicana Formata script of the early fifteenth
ff. 124r-135v, catchword; 15 12 + 1, ff. 136r-147v, catchword; 16 12 , ff. 149r-160v; 17 12 , ff. 161r-172v, catchword; f. 189v catchword; ff. 173r-191v too tightly bound to ascertain quiring. Item 1: Pricking not visible. Writing space of
, ff. 99r-108v paper (later inclusion); 10 9 (wants first leaf of quire) paper (later inclusion); 11 3 1 bifolia plus 1, ff. 118r-120v; 12 4 , ff. 121r-124v; 13 12 , ff. 125r-136v, catchword; 14 12 , ff. 137r-148v,
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' (McIntosh,
edited from MS. Rawl. B 171 , 2 vols, EETS, os, 131, London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Tr ü bner, 1 Brie, F. W. D., ed, 1908. The Brut or The Chronicles of England , edited from MS. Rawl. B
Latin f. 75r-v Papers and accounts relating to the navigation of the river Wye 1600-1663. Codex Parchment 200 133 mm 1 8 , ff. 1r-8v; 2 8 , ff. 9r-17v; 3 8 , ff. 18r-25v, catchword; 4 8 , ff.
Writing space: 160 x 90 mm. Single columns with 24 lines. Ruling: traces of brown crayon for the frame. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-32r), writing in black ink in a neat Anglicana Formata hand. Characteristics: ascenders on b and l at
College 16A s. xvi 1 English Scribal Dialect: Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 359 275, LP 4239 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 234). A copy of the Prick of Conscience from the first half of the sixteenth century. ff.
extreme N Hunts' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 77). F. 164 'Language apparently of N Ely, mixed with some other component(s). Ely' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 77). A fifteenth-century collection of Wycliffite material.
parchment flyleaves at the beginning with ii and iii foliated as 1 and 2, iv and v are not foliated and the text starts on f. 3r (previously f. 1). Unknown On f. 1v is written ' Robert Sandis est
4 SC 17680 s. xv med English Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-97v, ff. 104r-106r) - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 413 348, LP 193 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 237). Scribe 2 (ff. 98r-103r) - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire.