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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
þ . Body height c. 2mm. Red brackets for couplets throughout. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing into the margins for c. 14 lines. Ff. 37v-39v: two-line blue paraph marks with c. five-line red pen flourishing, on f. 38v
right column in elaborate penwork in red and blue. The border forms a T-shape running at the top of the two columns with red and blue infill. Lombardic two-line capitals in blue with red penwork, red rubrics and marginalia and
Each part is marked in this way. Two-line blue lombardic capitals with red penwork flourishing. Red running titles. Occasional red or blue one-line initials. Occasional red paraphs. Text 2 - four-line blue initial with red serrated pattern on left side
red; two-line blue initials at beginning of text; some letters coloured red within text. First letter of each line of verse tinted red with red brackets; two-line blue Lombardic initials with red penwork; six-line initial, eg. f. 8r, blue with
; open w ; long r ; þ; ȝ. Body height: 1-1.5mm. Some three-line blue initials with red penwork. Alternate blue and red initials. Red, and blue paraphs. Fifteenth-century alphabet f. 20v, pen drawn, not decorated or coloured (P ä
initials with feathering ending in filled oval lobes and pairs of leaves terminating in a cone-like elongated flower. Bound in blue morocco by Kalthoeber. Unfoliated. 64 folios. A note on the end flyleaves, 'NB. Mr. Whittaker, Bookseller, Wirksworth, being commissioned
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
in red apart from two-line initials in blue. Initial page of text - f. 1v: eight-line þ of 'þe' and two-line B of 'Bifore' in red. Titles in red with first letter a blue Lombard. Some passages in red. Eight/ten-line
and blue with white line decoration. Sprays of feathering grow from the three corners sporting green tinted oval lobes with pairs of gold balls and terminating in a gold elongated cone with spikes and a green tinted 'feather'. Two-line blue
quartered grounds in blue and rose with white line decoration and outlined in black. Black hairlines with their bases tinted a bright green protrude from the corners. On f. 5r the voids within the initial W are blue with 'barley
with crude penwork decoration and tinted green. Underlining in red. Three-line red Lombardic capitals. Red end-line decoration. Item 3: four-line blue initial G with red penwork flourishing and grotesque head protruding into left margin. Title in red scroll. Stanzas marked
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:
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
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.