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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
angels either side. Christ's halo in bright orange and blue. Angels with blue wings and rose collars. Bar-frame of miniature in rose with pairs of blue and rose single leaves and blue balls. Monks in white habits. Text: 'O veronicle
(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
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
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
with historiated initial D depicting the Virgin with child Christ. Virgin in blue with a red throne on a gold filigree ground. Bar-frame border with burgundy and blue vine and a gold bar. Interlace at the corner with a cluster
infill of blue penwork. Along the top and left margins are two faint blue lines extending from the capital across the folio and flanked either side by red, and blue penwork motifs forming a two-sided border. A blue trefoil leaf
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:
Blue initials vary from three to eight lines. Catchwords with a blue paraph mark, one boxed in red. Running titles marked by a blue paraph. Rubrics and Latin quotations boxed in brown but ff. 58r-75v boxed in red, and
hand. First initial: four-line red Lombardic h with blue patterns, infill of self colour flowers with outlines in blue and boxed in red. Two-line Lombardic red capitals with blue decoration. Red and blue one-line Lombardic capitals. Catchwords in black scrolls
initial page - four-line initial E in blue and red with red penwork and a four-sided border made of red and blue decoration. Seven-line blue initials with red and blue penwork. Three-line blue initials with red penwork decoration. Four-line lombardic
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
brackets to f. 24r; red titles; red and blue paraphs; top margin 'title' by scribe in black preceded by blue paraph on recto and red paraph on verso. Folio 14v - five-line blue initial T with fine red penwork flourishing
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
f. 104v. Folio 1r, seven-line initial in blue and gold with foliate infill (gold on blue ground), extending into full border of double stave (pink and blue), with curling foliate decoration in blue and gold (gold almost completely rubbed off
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