• Nottingham, University of Nottingham Library, Mellish Collection, Me LM 1 / Miscellany including Chaucer's Truth and Gentillesse

col. vb also no colours; prose history beginning f3ra is decorated blue with red flourished initials; f20 has no coloured ink. Flourished Initials: Lydgate's Dietary and Kings have 3-line blue initials with red flourishing, as also the verse 'Whanne fredam

• USA, San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS HM 28561 / Trevisa, trans of Polychronicon

Some 2-line gold initials on blue and red grounds completed with bar borders and foliage patterns in blue, orange, pink, green and gold (eg f12), and others incomplete (eg f103v) where plain red and blue ground and some gold dots

• USA, New Haven, CT, Beinecke Library MS 493 (olim Phillipps 8267, olim Bodmer) / Hoccleve's Series

marginal notes by the scribe. Paragraph Marks: Alternating red and blue paraph marks at beginning of each stanza and blue ones before rubric headings and marginal notes. Flourished Initials: Blue initials 2-6 lines high with red penwork flourishing; Shailor notes

• London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B.XVI / Piers Plowman, C version

an alternating blue and red bar border across top margin and all along left margin, with short sprays into bottom and right margins. Paragraph Marks: Frequent (every 5-6 lines) alternating red and blue paraphs. Flourished Initials: 5-8 line blue lombard

• London, British Library MS Additional 10340 / Boece

at the top of first column on f3v. 'Incipit liber boicij de co(n)solaco(n)e philosophie Paragraph Marks: Red and blue Flourished Initials: Blue lombard initials with red flourishing Other Names (not owners): f1v Randull Threbody Stephanus Kyrton These names repeated on

• USA, New York, NY, Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum MS M 249 / Canterbury Tales

Marks: Red paraphs precede headings. Flourished Initials: Red with dark ink pen-work except for the first 6-line initial which is blue with red pen-work. Other Names (not owners): On f4v is 'Sara Jones', 'To her suster', and 'to her father'.

• USA, New York, NY, Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum MS M 817 / Troilus and Criseyde

red. Borders: On first leaf is full border, other borders use left margin and upper and lower margins only; mauve-pink, blue, dark red, gold leaf. Historiated Initials: The first initial on f2r has a miniature enclosed in the letter 'T';

• Europe, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS Fonds Anglais 39 / Canterbury Tales

contained within the text frame but in the display script of Duxworth. Running Titles: No running titles. Flourished Initials: Mainly blue initials with a few in red ink; no flourishing. The opening initial of the General Prologue has a shield

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Kk.1.3, pt.10 (X) / Life of Our Lady

our lady and of the birth of our Lorde Ihu Criste'. Marginal Headings: Rubric Flourished Initials: 2- and 3-line plain blue lombard initials, no flourishing. Other Names (not owners): William Middleton's 'WM' on first folio and 'Lanselot Welles the sun

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson B.190 / Prose Brut

First folios missing. Flourished Initials: Blue mainly 2-line initials with red flourishing. Other Names (not owners): On f2 in the lower margin 'Given me by John Archbishop of York anno 1699'. T. Gale Flourished Initials: Blue mainly 2-line initials with

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Dugdale 45 / Regiment of Princes

a scribal heading 'Hoccleue de Regimine Principum', introduced by the same kind of red paraph and underlined. Flourished Initials: 2-line blue lombard initial with red penwork flourishing; red highlighting initial letter each stanza; Latin glosses introduced by red paraph and

• USA, San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS HM 111 / Hoccleve holograph of his works.

of heading on f38v, and the name 'Carpenter' on f 41; also marginalia on ff1v, 2r-v, 10v. Flourished Initials: 2-line blue lombard initials with red flourishing. Other Names (not owners): At beginning of verse 'A de B et C de

• Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean 185 / Regiment of Princes

ruling within. Writing Space: 149 x 87 frame, lines shorter Incipits and Explicits: None Marginal Headings: None Flourished Initials: 4-line blue lombard initials with red penwork. No rubric script at all. Other Names (not owners): In the same red as

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden B.24 / Troilus and Criseyde; Mother of God

Running Titles: In Troilus and Criseyde only Borders: Blue, green, red, yellow, gold Historiated Initials: On f1, 9-line rose initial historiated inside the letter, on illuminated gold ground. Illuminated Initials: Rose, white, blue, gold Other Names (not owners): Names of

• USA, San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS HM 135 / Regiment of Princes

Manuscript Description USA, San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS HM 135 Title: Regiment of Princes Author: Hoccleve Contents: Regiment of Princes ff1-82v; Mirror of the Periods of Man's Life (IMEV 1259), ff83-86v. Language: English Date Range:

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS e. Musaeo 54 / Astrolabe

numbered in black ink some in margins. Title by Scribe: 'Bred and mylk ffor childeren'. Paragraph Marks: Red Flourished Initials: Blue 6-lined lombard initial with red flourishing Other Names (not owners): On f1 in left margin is 'Iiffray Chaucer'. In

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson D.82 / Confessio Amantis (extract)

initials and red touching on initials of each line; other booklet similar level of decoration, but begins with a 3-line blue initial with red flourishing and has a rubric title. Other Names (not owners): None Flourished Initials: For the verse,

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson D.913, Part 9 / Astrolabe

gold initial 'L' with spray decoration in top border and side margin. Flourished Initials: Blue 2-line lombard initials flourished with red begin each section. Flourished Initials: Blue 2-line lombard initials flourished with red begin each section. Further Information: Catal. Codd.

• Oxford, Trinity College MS Arch. 49 / Canterbury Tales

framed in red ink. Paragraph Marks: Red in General Prologue and Monk's Tale. Flourished Initials: Some attempt to provide mainly blue capitals in a few places, for example in the Clerk's and Merchant's Tales. No flourishing. One red capital to

• London, British Library MS Additional 28617 / Legend of Good Women

Writing Space: 193 x 130 Incipits and Explicits: Incipits in display script eg f12r for each legend. Latin. Flourished Initials: Blue initials with red flourishing which extends to half a folio at the left side of the text. Used at