• London, British Library MS Harley 7335 / Canterbury Tales

7335 Scribe Dialect: Chaucerian/W.Essex/W.Kent Material: Combination No of Folios: 1 heavy paper flyleaf + 2 newish paper flyleaves + 163 leaves mixed parchment and paper + 3 newish paper flyleaves + 1 heavy paper flyleaf Pagination: Modern pencil in upper

• London, British Library MS Sloane 1009 part 1 / Five booklets in part 1: booklet 3 contains Melibeus

Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Sloane 1009 part 1 MS Appellation: Sl3 (Manly and Rickert) Title: Five booklets in part 1: booklet 3 contains Melibeus Author: Chaucer Contents: Part 1 is a compilation of five booklets containing a number

• London, British Library MS Egerton 2726 / Hand 1

Scribal Profile Hand 1 Current Manuscript: London, British Library MS Egerton 2726 Folios: 1-48 + lines 1-8 of 49r; 111 except for lines 1 and 2. Sampled Folios: 40v Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Dd.3.53, Part 2 / Astrolabe +[ Privy Seal and Signet documents as part 1].

2 Title: Astrolabe +[ Privy Seal and Signet documents as part 1]. Author: Chaucer Contents: Part 2 Astrolabe, 15th cent. [Part I formulary for Signet ca. 1400] Language: English Date Range: 1400-1425 Scribal Hands: Astrolabe scribe Material: Parchment No of

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Ff.1.6 / Anthology of secular and courtly verse.

Henry Bradshaw in about 1866 though now of doubtful accuracy. Quiring: From facsimile: A(10), B(16) wants 1-4; + bb(8) (wants 1) inserted after 10 [or alternatively B(20) (wants 1-4, 7; + b(4) inserted after 6], C(10) (wants 9, 10), D(16)

• USA, New York, NY, Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum MS M 690 / Confessio Amantis

Prologue (1 leaf); ends imperfectly near end of Book VIII). Language: English and Latin Date Range: 1390-1415 Scribal Hands: Hand A Hand B Dialect: County; Gowerian/SW Midlands (?mid Worcs) Material: Parchment No of Folios: 2 heavy paper flyleaves + 1

• England, London, British Library MS Harley 614 / De Proprietatibus Rerum

Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 3 new paper flyleaves match pastedown + 1 older paper flyleaf with 'HARL 614 stamped at top recto + 1-242 + 1 older paper flyleaf + 3 newer paper flyleaves match pastedown Pagination: Modern

• Oxford, St John's College MS 57 / Miscellany including Parlement of Fowls

Three Booklets: 1. Pricke of Conscience; 2. London Chronicle; 3. Parlement of Fowls and Statutes and ordinances for a military host under Henry V. Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: Beryn Scribe Material: Paper No of Folios: 1 new

• London, British Library, Harley 3869 / Confessio Amantis

1 Hand 3 Dialect: County; Gowerian (literatim copy of Fairfax) Material: Combination: mixed parchment (outer bifolia) and paper (unicorn head, Briquet 1409) No of Folios: 1 marbled and one paper flyleaf new with rebinding + 1 parchment flyleaf foliated

• England, Durham, Durham University Library MS Cosin V.III.9 / Hoccleve's Series or sequence

Extensive marginal annotation by series of owners or users throughout parchment portion (until Stow's ownership). Material: Combination No of Folios: 1 parchment flyleaf + 2 paper flyleaves + 10 paper leaves (ff3-12) + 83 (ff13-95) +1 parchment flyleaf Pagination: Modern

• Cambridge, Trinity College R.3.22 (602) / Life of Our Lady, Regiment of Princes

Regiment (f111-208) Language: English Date Range: 1400-1450 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 1 new paper, 1 parchment stub, 2 new-ish paper, 1 parchment stub, text block of 1-110 and 111-210, parchment stub, 2 newish paper, parchment stub

• London, College of Arms MS Arundel XLV (45) / Confessio Amantis

Folios: 1 marbled + 1 paper + 2 parchment flyleaves now attached to paper so that recto of first and verso of second are hidden + text block 1-167 (with two leaves numbered 107) + 1 paper + 1 marbled

• Scotland, National Library of Scotland, Advocates' MS 19.1.11 / Regiment of Princes

provides the following: 1 (8, missing 2) 2 (8, missing 4 and 5), 3-9 (8) 10 (10), 11-13 (8), 14 (8, missing 6), 15-20 (8), 21 (8, missing 6), 22 (8, missing 8), 23 (8, missing 1, 6-8), 24 (2)

• London, British Library MS Egerton 2864 / Hand 2

licence to extend the tail of 'y' into the right margin. I Usage: 'Ire'; very similar formation to 'I' by Hand 1 in this manuscript. Usage: 'Idyll'; v Usage: 'divers'; 'v' very similar to that of Hand 1. Usage: 'vnnethe';

• Cambridge, University Library MS Ii. 1. 38 part 1 / Unknown

Scribal Profile Unknown Current Manuscript: Cambridge, University Library MS Ii. 1. 38 part 1 Folios: 1-69r Sampled Folios: 54v, 69r Image Rights: Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library a Usage: 'thanne'; the scribe's usual

• Princeton, University Library, Garrett 137 / Hand A

single compartment secretary 'a' is used throughout. Usage: 'matere'; some 'a's are more rounded than the straight-sided graph of version 1. Usage: 'Allas'; the more rounded version of upper case 'A'. Usage: 'As'; 'A' is more angular in this example.

• England, Longleat House, Marquess of Bath MS 29, part 2 / Miscellany of religious verse and prose including part of the Parson's Tale contained in four booklets.

and is copied by the first scribe. Only this hand is analysed. Language: English Date Range: 1420-1430 Scribal Hands: Hand 1 Dialect: Hiberno English Material: Parchment No of Folios: 1-169 Quiring: For part 2: 1-4(8), 5(9), 6-13(8), 14(7 vii missing)

• England, Longleat House, Marquess of Bath MS 257 / Composite of two parts

(Manly and Rickert) Title: Composite of two parts Author: Chaucer and Lydgate Contents: Part 1: Seige of Thebes; Knight's Tale; Clerk's Tale; Ipomedon Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: ii + 98 +

• Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 67 / Confessio Amantis

of a deed of some kind?) + 1 old paper + 1 original parchment flyleaf + 207 + 2 parchment leaves originally blank which may have been end of quire or flyleaves + 1 old paper + 2 blank parchment

• NewYork, NY, Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum MS M 818 / Piers Plowman, A Version

just these paper leaves and cover. Pagination: Modern pencil; an original set numbered Piers booklet separately, so began again at 1 on f16 and continued to '39' at f54. These have been crossed through and replaced with 16-54 in smaller