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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
1r-10v - blue initial W with red pen-line flourishing. Alternate red and blue paraphs. Artist 2: ff. 11r-56v - eight-line gold initial S boxed in rose ground with blue infill with white decoration. Three-line blue initials. Two-line blue (aqua) initials
2 mm. Decorated bar border on the first page in blue, red and gold. The twelve-line illuminated capital O on f. 1r contains a coat of arms in gold and blue which Hanna describes as ' a blazon, argent (?),
throughout, see Ker 1963, pp. xvi-xvii. Item 1: alternate red and blue initials at each quatrain. Two-line blue initials with red penwork to begin introduction to text. Four-line blue initial with red penwork to begin text proper. Other texts: decoration
colophon in red. Item 2 - in the margin are five rough pictures of bleeding wounds. Item 3 - two-line blue lombards, some letters tinted red, red paraphs. Item 4 - Prologue, first column and a half, in red. Not