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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
(Doyle, 1987, pp. 11-12). One-line coloured (normally blue or red) or gold initials, which normally have contrasted and alternating penwork. Quires 32-36, and 41 have one-line gold initials with brown penwork and blue or orange paraphs. Quires 44-47 have violet
begins with a blue initial with the remainder in red. Item 10.2: Four-line blue initial C surrounded by red penwork box around. Rubric in red. Some words underlined in red. Red paraphs. Blue paraphs. Red and blue line fillers. Not
appearance. Body height: 2mm. Latin quotations in red. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing begin new paragraphs. F. 12v: five-line gold champ init ial A on a quartered rose and blue ground with white line decoration and sprays of
a border in red and blue. Four-line blue initials with red infill and red penwork flourishing into left margin form other divisions in the text. Further two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Red and blue paraphs. Not medieval. Size:
and blue background. No other decoration excep t for two-line Lombardic capitals in blue with red penwork decoration to indicate the beginning of each section. Initial letters of each line are tinted in yellow. Other Litterae Notabiliores written in blue
divisions: five-line blue initials with extended red penwork extending into the left margin e.g. ff. 21v; 52v, Dutschke (1989, p. 158) refers to these as 'parted red and blue initials with void leaf infilling and flourished extensions'; two/three-line blue initials
3mm. Four-sided border on initial page constructed of a blue, thin, inner band and an outer band made up of alternate blue and red humped lines carrying short spikes. A six-line blue initial I surrounded by red penwork, including an
3mm. Two/three-line capitals in blue with red penwork. Rubrics in red throughout and marginalia and Latin in red, particularly in the Prick of Conscience . F. 4v carries a four-line Lombardic capital in gold with a blue background decorated with
Rameseye'. Facsimile in P ä cht and Alexander (1973, p. 59, Plate LXVI). Two/three-line blue initials with red penwork, alternating red and blue paraphs, red and blue initials for stanzas, occasional red initials, some initials tinted red, titles and running
printed in Gradon 1988, p. xxx. Foliate borders in blue, pink and gold with 5-line initial on a gold ground in purple, red and blue, eg. pp. 1 and 109. Four-line blue initials with red penwork. English Biblical quotations underlined
each line coloured red. Initial page, ten-line blue initial I with fine red penwork extending along left and top and bottom margin forming a border. Four-line blue initials with red penwork. Two-line blue initials with red penwork extending length of
height: 2 mm. Initial page: five-line blue Lombardic initial with red penwork flourishing along top and left margin extending to another three-line blue Lombardic initial with red penwork forming a two-sided border. Four/five-line blue Lombardic initials with red penwork flourishing
white dots along middle, coloured in blue, green and brown/orange, and pairs of gold trefoil leaves. Initial P which gives rise to this border is in blue and burgundy with an infill of blue and burgundy/pink acanthus leaves decorated with
compartment g ; ȝ; Body height: 2mm. In red: paraphs; brackets; red box around 'headings'. Three-line blue initial T on initial page; two-line blue initials; six-line initial I . Not medieval. 235 x 160 mm. Covered in grey/green leather mitred
Body height 2 mm. Two-line blue initials with elongated red penwork flourishing, c. 25 lines on ff. 1v, 2r, 8v, 21v, 23v, and 31v. Not medieval. Twentieth century? Size: 270 x 185 mm with blue leather on pasteboard. 'Legenda Sanctorum
of each line tinted red. Red paraphs. Three-line red or blue lombards for divisions in text. Some words/lines in red. F. 116v - 'AMEN' on a separate line in blue lombards with red infill and surrounded by a pattern of
Body height: 2mm. F. 1r: three-line blue initial with red penwork flourishing. Other folios: three-line blue initials with red penwork extending into margins. One-line blue or red Lombardic initials. Latin underlining in red. Blue and red paraphs. Heraldic shields: f.
red and blue with infill of leaves and vine and red and blue penwork flourishing extending into the margin begins the text. Initials with red and blue penwork. Latin quotations boxed in red. Item 2: Twelve-line red and blue initial
through in red with red curls at the end; first letter of each line. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing extending into border. Four-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing into left margin. Nota bene/index signs: ff. 38v, 82v,
Bunt notes that the hand is a 'bold textura of the late r 14th century' (1985, p. 3). Two-line blue or blue and green initials with red penwork mark new sections of the poem. Not contemporary. Rebound in 1969. Letter