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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
Ripon Cathedral xiii. A. 35 s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped but McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin state 'language of N Staffs' (1986, p. 239). All that remains of this manuscript is a double
saaf'. f. 153r-v 'Actiua uita est panem esurientem'. 'sic ab illo implicatus absorbeatur'. Codex Parchment 265 180 mm 1 8 , (wants 1, 6, 8), added a stub with painting?, 2 10 , 3-4 8 , 5 6 , 6-13
on p. 65, a blank leaf. 215 150 mm Unascertainable Pricking: none. Writing space: variable. Columns: single. Lines: variable. Scribe 1, pp. 2-31. Cursive. Scribe 2, p. 33 only. Cursive. Scribe 3 pp. 39-50. Cursive. Scribe 4 pp. 57-71 (except
late by gan to sprynge'. 'And ffram on to oþer arewe þe while þe ȝer wole yleste'. G0rlach 1974, no. 1. p. 99 South English Legendary: Circumcision 'ȝeres day þe holy ffeste þat holy ffeste is and goed'. 'þe day
Parchment 310 230 mm 1-27 8 with catchwords. Quire 12 wants 7 (stub remains, initial letters visible). Quire 14 wants 1 (stub remains, initial letters visible). Pricking of small rounded holes in the header (10 mm from the edge), footer
Dutschke, C. W. 1989. Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library , San Marino, Ca.: Huntington Library, 1, p. 158. Hardy, T. D. 1871, rpt. 1966. Descriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain
The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript , 2 vols, EETS, os, 98, London: Kegan Paul & Tr ü bner, 1. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary ,
Library Harley 2376 s. xv 1 English Scribal dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 362 225, LP 7320 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A manuscript containing the C-text of Piers Plowman dated to the first half of the
Press, p. xi. Boffey, J. 1985. Manuscripts of English Courtly Love Lyrics in the Later Middle Ages , Manuscript Studies 1, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, pp. 20, 128-129. A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1808-1812 , 4
edited from MS. Rawl. B 171 , 2 vols, EETS, os, 131, London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Tr ü bner, 1. Furnivall, F. J., ed, 1858. Early English Meals and Manners , EETS, os, 32, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr
Writing space of 270 x 195 mm. Single col umns with 37 lines. Frame and lines ruled in drypoint. Scribe 1 (ff. 1-169r): regular Anglicana Formata, influenced occasionally by Bastard Anglicana, with minums generally traced continuously, but occasionally reverts to
of which are West Midlands manuscripts. Blake, N. and Robinson, P., ed, 1993. The Canterbury Tales Project: Occasional Papers , 1, Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications, p. 95. Bowers, J. M., ed, 1992. The Canterbury Tales : fifteenth century
1729 ) 'Ihesu lord wel come ye be'. 'Houfull be my last bred. Fiat. Amen'. Codex Parchment 150 85 mm 1 6 (includes ff. viii-ix), 2-6 16 , 7 12 , 8 16 , 9 6 (3 and 5 canc.),
College 15 E.15 s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: Not analysed. Lewis and McIntosh, 'Linguistically mixed but with characteristics suggesting it was copied in Worcester' (1982, p. 120). A copy of the Prick of Conscience from
of f. 174r-v: language similar to main hand and 'belongs probably to N Salop' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 102). A mid fifteenth-century copy of the Stanzaic Life of Christ (Foster 1926, p. xi); Dialogue between a
Cotton Claudius A.ii s. xv 1 English Scribe of f. 3v - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped. Scribe of ff. 4r-30v - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped. Scribe of ff. 40r-128r -
40ra - Scribal Dialect: not analysed. Scribe of ff. 127va-end - Scribal Dialect: Derbyshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, pp. 149-150). An early fifteenth-century manuscript containing Richard Rolle's English Psalter . f. 1r-v Prologue to Rolle's Commentary on
cristes merci ne is wel more'. English Conlee 1991, pp. 18-49. Codex Parchment 270 180 mm According to G0rlach, '1 14 (1, 3-4 lost, 5 mutilated), 2 12 , 3 10 (9 mutilated), 4-9 12 , 10 12 (2-3 lost
bryngeth ous to minde'. 'To hoeuene hoe make ous stye at oure endeday. Amen'. English Codex Parchment 230 170mm 1 14 (1 and 14 are added leaves), ff. 1r-13v; 2 12 , ff. 14r-25v; 3 12 , ff. 26r-37v; 4
England Oxford Bodleian Library Douce 302 SC 21876 s. xv 1 English Latin Scribe 1 - Scribal dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 383 336, 189 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 237). Scribe 2 - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire.