• London, British Library MS Harley 172 / Lerne to Die

Folios: 1 marbled + 1 parchment originally ?first of first quire handwriting matches f2, now numbered 1* looks like tipped in between 1* and 1 + 1 parchment stitched of three pieces written on recto only, now numbered 1 +

• London, British Library MS Royal 17.C.XIV / Regiment of Princes

No of Folios: 1 marbled matches pastedown + 1 paper same new date + 1 paper flyleaf older but not original (foliated '1' but blank except label attached to recto) + 2-90 paper and parchment mixed + 1 paper flyleaf

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Dd.12.51, part 1 / Astrolabe

University Library MS Dd.12.51, part 1 Title: Astrolabe Author: Chaucer Contents: Astrolabe; Liber lapidum; Latin herbal Language: English Date Range: 1475-1500 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 3 modern paper flyleaves + 1 paper pastedown (numbered i) +

• London, British Library MS Egerton 913 / Confessio Amantis

(incomplete) Language: English and Latin Date Range: 1400-1425 Scribal Hands: Hand C Hand A Hand B Dialect: Hand 1 Gowerian/colourless; Hand 2 Gowerian/colourless; Hand 3 Gowerian/colourless/E.Anglia Material: Paper No of Folios: Marbled + 4 newer paper flyleaves + 2 older

• Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College MS 176/97 / Contains extracts from Chaucer and Gower

corners recto. Quiring: From James catalogue, p. 201: 124 (1 replaced, six leaves (?all blank) cut out in the second half 2-520 (one replaced, one cancelled in 2nd half) 620 (wants 1, 9, 10). Catchwords: None in first booklet. Page

• Oxford, Christ Church MS 152 / Canterbury Tales

Siege of Thebes ff282r-342r Language: English Date Range: 1475-1500 Scribal Hands: Hand 1 Morganus Scribe Dialect: Standardised/S.W./W.Mids Material: Paper No of Folios: 2 newer paper flyleaves + 1 parchment leaf (f1) + 342 + 2 newer paper flyleaves Pagination: Older

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Ii.1.38, part 1 / Boece

University Library MS Ii.1.38, part 1 Title: Boece Author: Chaucer Contents: Boethius; Aretino's Latin translation of Demosthenes' Orationes Language: English Date Range: 1400-1425 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: i parchment stub + i parchment flyleaf + i

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 414 / Canterbury Tales

two sets in the top right corner recto, both in black ink. One set numbers 1-435, the second 1-235-6. Quiring: 1 (8) (f1 missing), 2-12 (8), 13 (6), 14-27 (8) (6 missing) Signatures: Signatures for 'a' in red, thereafter 'b-yogh'

• Wales, Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS Peniarth 359B part 7 / Miscellany containing Astrolabe

diagrams Paragraph Marks: Red Further Information: 'Treatises and notes on the signs of the zodiac, the four elements, the planets, the sphere, geomancy, the astrolabe, astrology etc. Part of the manuscript is written in cryptic writing'. [NLW Handlist, Vol. 1]

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Dd.4.24 / Canterbury Tales

Material: Paper and parchment No of Folios: 7 modern paper + 1 modern parchment + 205 + 9 paper stubs numbered 206-215 + 1 modern parchment numbered 216 + 1 older blank parchment numbered 217 + 9 modern paper. Pagination:

• Cambridge, St. John's College MS L.1 (235) / Troilus and Criseyde

In Troilus and Criseyde section only, scribal catchwords in red ink box. Page Size: 255 x 170 Frame: 1 x vertical, 1 x horizontal; occasionally 2 verticals. Writing Space: 235 x 150 Incipits and Explicits: On f119v 'Expl. liber Troili

• London (Kew), National Archives, SC 8/20/997 / Adam Pinkhurst

National Library of Wales MS Peniarth 392D England, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers, Box S. 1. Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.15.17 (353) Cambridge, University Library MS Kk. 1. 3 Part 20 (XX) London (Kew), National Archives, SC 8/20/997 London, Guildhall Library

• London, Mercers'Company, Accounts Book, 1391 / Adam Pinkhurst

National Library of Wales MS Peniarth 392D England, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers, Box S. 1. Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.15.17 (353) Cambridge, University Library MS Kk. 1. 3 Part 20 (XX) London (Kew), National Archives, SC 8/20/997 London, Guildhall Library

• London, British Library MS Harley 4866 / Regiment of Princes

+ 1 heavy paper flyleaf of same date + 2 parchment leaves numbered 1* and 1, on first of which is a series of shelfmarks on recto and notes on the MS (modern) on verso, on the second, numbered 1,

• Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum MS McClean 181 / Canterbury Tales

1 new heavy paper matches pastedown + 1 newer blank paper flyleaf + 305 original parchment folios of which first is blank except name of 'Thomas Bly' on verso and of which last (305) is blank except scribbles +

• USA, Philadelphia, PA, Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1083/29 / Confessio Amantis

No of Folios: 1 marbled + 1 original flyleaf + 1-161v + 162 parchment written by a 20th c. calligrapher to complete the poem (56 lines) since original last leaf is lost + 1 blank paper + 1 marbled Pagination:

• London, British Library, MS Arundel 59 / Regiment of Princes, Secretum Secretorum

first of which is marbled on recto to match pastedown + 89 folios + 2 blank folios + ff90-130 + 1 heavier paper perhaps contemporary with text paper but which does not match the other half of f130 + 2

• London, Corporation of London Record Office, Cust. 12 (Liber Albus), Book II / HM 114 Scribe

British Library MS Harley 3943 London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 491, Part 1 USA, California, San Marino, Henry E. Huntington Library MS HM 114 London, Corporation of London Record Office, Letterbook I London, Corporation of London Record Office, Cust. 12

• USA, New York, NY, Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum MS M 249 / Canterbury Tales

1-3) + 4- 271 + iii (numbered 272-274) Pagination: Recent foliation includes the vellum flyleaves. Quiring: 1-25(8), 26(6), 27-34(8), + 1 stuck to first vellum fly. Signatures: Quires 1-16 have roman numerals in yellowish ink on the last verso leaf

• Europe, Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale MS 4862-9 / Astrolabe

No of Folios: i + 95 + ii Pagination: ?Modern Quiring: 8s: Seymour's collation: 1-48 58 + 1 (f.47), 6-88, 98 + 1 (inset after f. 66), 10-118, 128 (wants 6-8). Signatures: Seymour notes, 'relics of numbered signatures'. Catchwords: Only