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(IMEV 404 ) 'As reson rywylde my rechyles mynde'. 'ffilius regis is alyve et non mortuus est'. 'Explicit'. English Furnival 1 866, pp. 233-242. ff. 5r-7v The Complaint of Christ (IMEV 3611 ) 'This is crystes owen complaynt fro man

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England Cambridge Trinity College 655 R.4.26/468 s. xiv English Latin French Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 382 212, LP 7070 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A fourteenth-century copy of Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle along

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United States Charlottesville University of Virginia Hench 10 Aldenham s. xiv 2 English Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 448 277, LP 534 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). A late-fourteenth century copy of the Prick

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pp. i-ii and ii, n. 2. Warton, Thomas. 1871, rpt. 1970. History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century , London: Reeves and Turner, rpt. New York: Haskell House Publishers, p. 240, n. 1.

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Library, MS Additional 37787 in Baugh 1956, pp. 107-121. Conlee 1991, pp. 18-49. Codex Parchment 225 155 mm iv + [1, 2 - now lost ] ; 3-5 8 ; 6 4 (wants 4); 7-13 8 ; 14 8 (wants

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Craster, H. H. 1922. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford , vol. 2, part 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 51. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late

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England Oxford Bodleian Library Rawl. poet. 139 SC 14633 s. xiv 2 (Lewis and McIntosh p. 155). English Scribal Dialect: Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 371 326, LP 192 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 233). A copy

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England Worcester Worcester Cathedral Chapter Library F.10 c. 1400 English Latin Scribal Dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 389, LP 7761 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). A loose collection of anti-Lollard Benedictine sermons of c. 1400

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University Library Osborn a 13 s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 239). A manuscript of the Prick of Conscience written by one scribe in the first half

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schelde fro þe fendes fere amen'. English Furnivall 1866, pp. 251-256. Edden 1990, p. 16. Codex Parchment 145 95 mm 1 10 , ff. 2r-11v, catchword; 2 8+1 , ff. 12r-20v, catchword; 3 8 , ff. 21r-28v, catchword; 4 8

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compartment g ; long s in medial position; 2-shaped r ; B-shaped w . Body height: 2mm. Decoration of item 1, Speculum Christiani , ff. 4r-70v: title in red; red underlining, some initials tinted red, names underlined in red, blue,

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Royal 12 C.xii s. xiv 1 English French Latin Scribal dialect: Herefordshire, Ludlow (Zettle 1935; Revard 2000, p. 21). Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: Not mapped and only ff. 62-68 analysed (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 200). An early fourteenth-century

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eights (quires 6 and 15 are twelves). Collation as it survives today: ii + 1 8 , ff. 3r-10v; 2 8 , ff. 11r-17v (wants 1 before f. 17r); 3 8 (wants first five leaves), ff. 18r-20v; 4 8 ,

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Lancs' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, 1986, vol. 1, p. 109). Scribe 5 (f. 163v-164r), Scribe 6 (f. 170r-170v), and Scribe 7 (ff. 170v-170v): Scribal dialect: Cheshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 109). Scribe 8 (ff. 180v-181r): Scribal

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lines) and lines in drypoint. One scribe writing in a small Anglicana script in black ink. Body height 1-2mm. Item 1: title in black with blue paraph before the M . Five-line blue initial M with red penwork extending along

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4, p. 244). The scribal dialect of ff. 152r-163v has been located to Norfolk (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 113). The manuscript contains Latin theological and moral texts which are interspersed with English and some French verses.

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1900. The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity Cambridge: A Descriptive Catalogue , 3 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary ,

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Library Egerton 1993 s. xiv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 390 232, LP 7130 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 196). An early to mid fourteenth-century copy of the South English Legendary written by one scribe

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Junius 56 SC 5167 s. xv 1 English Scribal dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 400 258, LP 7690 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). A copy of the Prick of Conscience from the first half of the fifteenth-century.

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98, London: Kegan Paul & Tr ü bner, 1. Madan, F., and Craster, H. H. 1922. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford , vol. 2, part 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 69. Morris, R.,