• Tokyo, Takamiya Collection MS 9 / Astrolabe

ink Writing Space: 110 x 80 Flourished Initials: Lombard capitals of two-lines in blue and flourished in red ink Flourished Initials: Lombard capitals of two-lines in blue and flourished in red ink Further Information: Seymour I: 129; Takamiya list in

• London, British Library MS Additional 27944 / De Proprietatibus Rerum

by blue paraphs Running Titles: In rubric, 'liber' on verso and roman numeral on recto also preceded by blue paraphs. Borders: Full bar border on f8r including central bar; blue, green, orange, pink; other bar borders of gold, blue, pink

• USA, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections MS Garrett 151 / Polychronicon

of blue and pink with white; lesser divisions marked by 3-line gold initials on blue and rose grounds with white highlighting. Paragraph Marks: Each sentence begins with one-line paraph alternating blue with red flourishing or gold with marine blue flourishing.

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 609 / Confessio Amantis

in blue, purplish-red and gold, with white highlights. Illuminated Initials: Purplish-red and blue initials with white highlighting on solid gold square with blue and red foliage patterns inside letter and extending from corners. Paragraph Marks: Running titles introduced by blue

• London, British Library MS Additional 35286 / Canterbury Tales

3 on quartered blue and red ground begin tales; not all present. Paragraph Marks: Alternating red with blue flourishing and blue with red flourishing. They precede running titles, incipits and explicits, stanzas and glosses. Flourished Initials: Blue initials with red

• USA, New York,NY, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Plimpton 265 / Confessio Amantis

pink, blue and red. Illuminated Initials: Two-line gold initials with blue infill and pink surround or vice versa. Single-line initials in gold with blue flourishing and blue with red flourishing. Miniatures: On f1v dream of Nabuchodonosor. Flourished Initials: 2-line blue

• London, British Library MS Royal 18 C.XXII / Confessio Amantis

an 8-line blue initial with white cut-out highlighting, enclosing miniature of man in red, confessing(?) bowing? before another in white with blue hood (lover and confessor?), on gold ground with bosses. Illuminated Initials: 2-line gold initials on parti-coloured blue and

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 600 / Canterbury Tales

paraphs are in red ink. Illuminated Initials: Gold, pink, blue for main 3-4 line initials. Champ initials. Smaller champ initials begin prologues. Paragraph Marks: Blue and some red directions Flourished Initials: Blue with red flourishing. Other Names (not owners): See

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 141 / Canterbury Tales

pilgrim in red is preceded by blue paraphs flourished with red ink. Paragraph Marks: Red with blue flourishing and blue with red flourishing frequently alternating. Also used to mark stanzaic division. Flourished Initials: Blue 2-4 line capitals with red flourishing

• London, British Library, MS Egerton 1991 / Confessio Amantis

'Tercius' on rectos. Borders: Bar border, gold, pink, blue, green Illuminated Initials: 5-line blue initials with white highlighting on gold ground, with blue, orange, pink, green. Smaller 2-line gold initials on blue and rose parti-coloured grounds with white highlighting, green.

• Scotland, Glasgow, Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 59 (T.2.17) / Vox Clamantis; Chronica Tripertita; Caetera Carmina Minora; Traite

paraphs in red and blue. Flourished Initials: Blue initials with red penwork flourishing 2 or 3-line to introduce chapters; small blue and occasionally red lombard capitals within text and to introduce summaries in Vox. Red and blue single-line yet flourished

• USA, Chicago, IL, Newberry Library MS f.33.7 / Regiment of Princes

blue flourished initials. On f1, 7-line blue lombard initial with red pen-work flourishing. Prologue on f30 begins with 5-line blue initial similarly flourished. Regiment proper begins f32 with a 3-line blue initial similarly flourished; at subheadings of Regiment, 2-line

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Lyell 31 / Confessio Amantis

or blue capital flourished with either red or violet. Title by Scribe: 'Prologus' on f1. Borders: Small borders which are made up of sprays of foliage. Illuminated Initials: Gold on red/purple and blue ground, foliage Flourished Initials: Large blue initials

• Cambridge, St. John's College MS H.1 (204) / Polychronicon

with same green spirals and gold balls, also gold trefoils. Paragraph Marks: Alternating blue with red penwork paraphs and gold with dark blue penwork paraphs, but the blue penwork around gold paraphs stops from 10-15 except for occasionally filled in.

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Selden supra 53 / De regimine principum

and blue, red and gold balls. Miniatures: First folio is missing but one miniature begins the text Paragraph Marks: Blue paraphs with red penwork decoration in prose sections Flourished Initials: Smaller two-line blue lombard initials, red pen-work flourishing; one-line blue

• USA, New York, NY, Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum MS M 125 / Confessio Amantis

pink, blue; floreated borders at beginning of each book (eg f119va begins 6th book), in gold, rose, orange, blue, and green. Illuminated Initials: 5-line blue and pink initial with white highlighting forming incised pattern on gold ground; orange, blue, pink,

• USA, Cambridge, MA, Harvard, Houghton Library, Eng. 920 / Treatise on the Astrolabe

(with white foliage patterns) and red ground (with white patterns); plain blue Lombard initials before rubric headings, alternating plain 2-line red and blue initials at beginnings of sections; plain blue before red headings; stroke of red in initials of new

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 149 / Canterbury Tales

preceded by a paraph of red or blue. Marginal presence of 'prolog' and 'fab' in brown or red ink and preceded by blue paraphs. Running Titles: In red ink preceded by a blue paraph. They do not occur in any

• London, British Library MS Lansdowne 851 / Canterbury Tales

lines for beginning of tales in blue and rose on gold ground; 2 or 3-line gold champe letters on rose and blue background to begin prologues. Paragraph Marks: Blue with red flourishing, gold with blue; used infrequently in text but

• London, British Library MS Sloane 1685 / Canterbury Tales

and preceded by blue paraphs with red flourishing. Marginal Headings: In Wife of Bath's Tale and Monk's Tale marginal glosses in red ink also preceded by blue paraphs flourished with red. Running Titles: Red titles preceded by blue paraphs flourished