• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

1: paraphs and some letters tinted red. Item 2: red paraphs, brown ink. Item 3: text begins with a five-line blue initial with crude red penwork and infill; two-line red initials, red paraphs, running titles underlined in red. Item 5:

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

closed s in final position and long s elsewhere; Body height: 1.5 mm. Ff. 3r-29v: text begins with a four-line blue initial with red penwork flourishing. Latin lines in red. Ff. 30r-31v: three-line red Lombardic capital m begins text. All

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

See Ker for a description of the script (1976, pp. xv-xvi). Two/three-line capitals in red. One three-line capi tal in blue with red penwork on f. 349r. One five-line initial in red with brown penwork on f. 71r and a

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

the letter on the right side. & used regularly. Body height: 4 mm. First initial of text eight-lines deep with blue ground and red penwork but now much damaged. Red words in text, mostly names. Two-line red initials. Not medieval.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

hooked ascender to h ; hooked descender to h ; long s in medial position. Body height: 2 mm. Two-line blue Lombardic initials with red penwork flourishing. Some words in red. Single red stroke between various words. Underlining in red.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

5: underlining of names in red, red paraphs, some initials highlighted red, red and black line filler; two/three-line red or blue initials. Item 7: two-line red initials. Item 12: four-line initial A begins text. Outlined in red with red decoration

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

49). Probably an Augustinian canon at Haughmond Abbey. In red: scribal numbering; titles; colophons; brackets; paraphs. Two-line red initials. Three-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Drawing of the Holy Face on the Vernicle. Nine lines deep over one column

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Three-line blue initials with red penwork extending into border. Red and blue paraphs. Item 4: four/five-line initial A in blue as before. Red and blue paraphs. Two-line blue initials with red penwork. Item 5: fourteen-line initial I in blue with

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

squiggles. Two-line blue initials with extending red penwork decorate the manuscript until f. 70v where there is also a change of ink but not a change of scribe. Later texts: eg. f. 71r three-line blue initial and blue paraphs, f.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

blue and red initial with red pen-work decoration around the letter giving rise to a full border in blue and red. Red and blue paraphs. Two-line blue initials with red penwork extensions. Text 2 - title in red. Two-line

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

s in initial position. Red rubrics underlining, paraphs. Alternate red and blue one-line blue initials for item 4.1. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing into margins. Six-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. As above. Foliated consecutively with Part

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

begins with a five-line capital B in red and blue with fine line penwork decorating the infill, red, and around the letter, red and violet. Red paraphs. Red underlining. Three-line blue initials with fine red penwork for divisions. Not medieval.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

rise to a three-sided bar-frame border. At the top a cluster of rose and blue leaves gives way to a straight spray constructed of a blue vine terminating in a rose leaf. The vine is decorated with a white central

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

blue and rose with white circles and white lines. The gold bar and rose vine move down from the bottom of the initial and terminate at the bottom of the page. The bar tapers onto a triangular ground of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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