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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

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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 ,

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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

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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

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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

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Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 237). Scribal Dialect of ff. 119r-164v: Northamptonshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 147). A composite manuscript made up of five manuscripts of mainly Latin texts but including a short English

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cvi and cxxvi. ff. 134r (IMEV 2742 ) 'Pees makeþ plente'. 'Grace groweth after gouernaunce'. Codex Parchment 390 280 mm 1 (8) (wants 2); 2-16 (8) ; 17 (8) (wants 8). Catchwords regular at the end of each quire: ff.7v;

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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

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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

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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.),

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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

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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

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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 -

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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

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comencent les singnes del iour de nouel'. 'Si le iour de noel auent par dimaines bon iuer'. French Thorndike 1923, 1, 678-9; Vising 1923, 305; ff. 41r-46r Prognostications of lucky and unlucky days according to the moon. 'Ci comence le

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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

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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

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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.

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98, London: Kegan Paul & Tr ü bner, 1. Horstmann, C. 1895. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and His Followers , Library of Early English Writers, 2 vols, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1. Horstmann, C. 1896. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle

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within the circles in a clockwise direction (Mooney 1995, p. 116). Latin Codex Parchment 420 270 mm 2 flyleaves + 1 8 , 2 8 (one cancelled)-10 8 (wants 8), next quire missing, 11-37 8 + 2 flyleaves, one used