• London, British Library, Harley 3869 / Confessio Amantis

6-line blue initials with red flourishing, other divisions of text have 3- or 4-line blue initials with red flourishing; alternating 1-line blue with red and red with blue flourishing; Latin in line with text is written in red with blue

• England, British Library MS Additional 18632 / Siege of Thebes; Regiment of Princes

and blue with green foliage; on f6r and 20r bar borders with extensions into top and bottom margins above and below the first column; on f34r (Regiment) a beautiful 4-sided border in gold, blue and pink with bosses in blue,

• England, Petworth, Petworth House, The National Trust MS 7 / Canterbury Tales

bar frame border on f1 in gold, blue, rose with green, orange; for tales left bar border with sprays along top and bottom Illuminated Initials: On f1 an 8-line parti-coloured rose and blue initial with white highlighting on gold ground

• Wales, Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS Peniarth 392D / Canterbury Tales

f2r; pink, orange blue, gold Illuminated Initials: Again on f2r the first folio of the manuscript. Paragraph Marks: Blue Flourished Initials: Blue initials with red flourishing define the opening of prologues, tales and linking passages; small blue Lombardic capitals in

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Gg.4.27 / Chaucerian poetry with the Canterbury Tales

Headings in red by scribe. Borders: Gold, blue and red parti-coloured bar frame along left edge, extending long straight blue or red sprays into upper and lower margins. Illuminated Initials: 4- or 5-line blue initials with white highlighting in incising

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Mm.2.5 / Canterbury Tales

preceded by paraphs alternating blue and red. Running Titles: Variously in English and Latin; all in red ink on most folios recto and verso; preceded by blue paraphs which have fine red guide paraphs beneath the blue; most titles followed

• Cambridge, Magdalene College MS Pepys 2101 / Regiment of Princes

excellent'') has 6-line illuminated initial in gold, blue, rose and white. Others (eg f44v) 6-line blue and rose with white highlights on gold ground. On ff77v, 80v) 5-line gold initial on parti-colored blue and rose ground with white highlighting, sprays

• Oxford, Magdalen College MS Lat. 213 / Confessio Amantis

an 8-line blue and red parti-coloured initial with white cut-out on solid gold square ground with blue, green, pink and white foliage inside the letter. Flourished Initials: 2-3-line initials alternating blue and red penwork decoration and gold with blue penwork

• London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A.IV / Vox Clamantis and other Latin poems

quire which is contents of Vox Clamantis. Paragraph Marks: Blue and red paraphs, initials each line touched with red. Flourished Initials: 2-5-line blue and red flourished initials, one-line plain initials alternating blue and red. Other Names (not owners): Robert Cotton

• San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library, HM 128 (olim Phillipps 20420) / Pricke of Conscience, Piers Plowman B-text, Siege of Jerusalem

been mostly cropped. Flourished Initials: ff1-205: Pricke has 5-6 line blue and red initials,red and blue foliage decoration inside and postage stamp in red as ground. In Piers, 2-4-line blue initials with red pen flourishing in postage stamp design. Other

• London, British Library MS Harley 1758 / Canterbury Tales

8-line blue, rose, white highlighting on gold ground; foliage patterns inside letter in blue, rose, green, pink white. Miniatures: Spaces left for miniatures as in Ellesmere; none achieved. Paragraph Marks: Alternating blue with red pen-work and red with dark blue;

• London, University of London, Senate House, Sterling Library MS V.88 / Piers Plowman, C version

of letter to some extent with enlarged corner blocks, only single bell-like flower from corners, no sprays. Paragraph Marks: Alternating red and blue paraphs at mid-line each line all way through. Further Information: Formerly belonged to the Earl of Ilchester.

• Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 307 / Confessio Amantis

on both recto and verso. On verso they are blue with red penwork, on rectos, gold with blue. Borders: On f1, a full wide bar border of gold with bands of blue or rose on which are white highlights. On

• London, Society of Antiquaries MS 134 / Confessio Amantis, Regiment of Princes

leaves. Illuminated Initials: 5-line blue and rose on gold ground. 3-line gold on parti-coloured blue and rose ground. Paragraph Marks: Rubric glosses in margins are preceded by blue paraphs and red penwork. Flourished Initials: 1-line alternating blue with red flourishing

• London, British Library, MS Arundel 38 / Regiment of Princes

ink with blue initials, red flourishing, written by scribe, in large space allowed for them. Borders: On f81v, pink with white highlighting creating foliage pattern, with bar border down left side in blue, gold and rose, sprays of blue, pink,

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 735 / Hoccleve, Series, Lydgate, Dance of Death,Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes

Marks: Alternating red and blue paraphs with unusual j-curve at bottom, or in margins beside glosses blue with waving left edges extended to cover all left edge of the gloss. Flourished Initials: On f1r a 6-line blue lombard initial with

• Cambridge, Trinity College R.3.22 (602) / Life of Our Lady, Regiment of Princes

mm. Marginal Headings: Red glosses in Life, black glosses in Regiment preceded by alternating blue or red paraphs. Running Titles: Red running titles preceded by blue paraphs in Life of Our Lady. Pees Maketh plente poem on f109v all written

• England, London, British Library MS Harley 1900 / Polychronicon; Trevisa's translation

ff24-41v has alternating 3-line blue (with cut-outs filled with red) with red penwork or red with blue penwork to begin each new letter of alphabet; f42 at beginning of text a 2-line red initial with blue pen-work and thereafter 2-

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Mm.2.21 / Confessio Amantis

red around explicit and blue around incipit; faint yellow wash on initials every line. Flourished Initials: 3-line blue lombard initials with red pen-work flourishing; where speaker changes Amans to Confessor or vice versa, a one-line plain blue or red initial,

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson poet. 38 / Piers Plowman, B version

of passus are 4-line initials in blue with red flourishing. Other Names (not owners): Thomas Hearne 1732. Table of Contents: None Flourished Initials: Initial letters at beginnings of passus are 4-line initials in blue with red flourishing. Further Information: Benson