• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

six-line capital I in initial position. Brackets in red. Red paraphs throughout. Item 7: c. ten-line blue initial I with red penwork flourishing and blue penwork extending along length of left margin, half way along bottom margin and whole of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Body height: 2mm. F. 1r: three-line blue initial with red penwork flourishing. Other folios: three-line blue initials with red penwork extending into margins. One-line blue or red Lombardic initials. Latin underlining in red. Blue and red paraphs. Heraldic shields: f.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

compartment a ; þ ; 8-shaped g in initial position; 2-shaped r in medial position; Body height: 3mm. Red, and blue paraphs with underlining in red. Latin in red. Only a fragment remains. Unknown Unknown Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

red and blue with infill of leaves and vine and red and blue penwork flourishing extending into the margin begins the text. Initials with red and blue penwork. Latin quotations boxed in red. Item 2: Twelve-line red and blue initial

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

to Sir William Hylton, f. 108r (see Additions). Initial page: five-line gold (now white with remnants of gold) U with blue infill patterned with white-line foliate decoration (now oxidised). Initial ground of rose with (now oxidised) white line decoration; sprays

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

through in red with red curls at the end; first letter of each line. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing extending into border. Four-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing into left margin. Nota bene/index signs: ff. 38v, 82v,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Secretary script with Anglicana looped d . Two-line gold initials with violet flourishing. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Red rubrics begin each section. Blue and red paraphs. Latin underlined in ff. 171v-201r. This section also has a different

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Bunt notes that the hand is a 'bold textura of the late r 14th century' (1985, p. 3). Two-line blue or blue and green initials with red penwork mark new sections of the poem. Not contemporary. Rebound in 1969. Letter

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

writing in an Anglicana hand. Scribe ?4, ff. 176r-178v. Two-line Lombardic capitals in blue with red penwork decoration to indicate the beginning of texts. Red and blue paraphs and red boxed rubrics (e.g., f. 18). Catchwords are often boxed and

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Formata hand. Item 1: 'Cha mpe initials (gold on blue and purple with white tracery) ff. 1, 4, 93v, 126v, 128, 141' (Mynors and Thomson 1993, p. 69). Item 2: blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Late nineteenth-century binding. Parchment

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

script. Ff. 1v, 2r - two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Initial folio of Stanzaic Life - nine-line blue initial I with red penwork flourishing forming a two-sided border. F. 87v - two-line blue initial with red penwork flourishing

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

; 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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

2 copied ff. 97r-129v in Textura. Two and three-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. F. 5v - nine-line blue initial I with red penwork flourishing. Initial page (f. 1r): thirteen-line blue initial þ with extensive fine red penwork flourishing

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

each line infilled with red. F. 1r: Large blue initial S of 'Stimulus' with elongated red penwork topped with a crown, outlined in blue and infilled with red. Two-line initials in blue with red flourished penwork - ff. 3v, 4r,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

ff. 13r-20v: three-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing along margin (first letter of each Psalm). One-line red and blue Lombardic capitals. Red underlining. Text 3, ff. 21r-25v: three-line blue initial with red penwork begins text. Two-line blue initials with

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

red initial with blue penwork e.g. f. 148v. F. 27r - five-line red and blue initial O infilled with leaves outlined in red and infilled with blue, penwork surrounding initial in blue and red infilled alternately with blue and red.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

two/three-line blue Lombardic initials with red penwork with red penwork infill. Frequent alternate red and blue paraphs. First initial of text: five-line Lombardic initial A with serrated pattern of blue and red with red penwork infill and red and blue