• USA, New York, NY, Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum MS M 690 / Confessio Amantis

in gold on pink and blue grounds with white highlighting also with green wash (ie after 1413). Miniatures: Dream of Nebuchadnezzar f4v. Flourished Initials: 1- 3-line alternating blue with red flourishing or gold with marine blue flourishing. Other Names (not

• USA, Philadelphia, PA, Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1083/29 / Confessio Amantis

2-3-line gold initials on rose and blue grounds with white highlighting. Paragraph Marks: Sometimes blue paraphs in the rubric text, red-flourished. Flourished Initials: 1-line initials alternating blue with red flourishing and gold with marine blue flourishing. Other Names (not owners):

• London, British Library MS Royal 17 D.XIX / Regiment of Princes

on f1, 7-line in blue and red parti-coloured with white highlighting incising, on gold ground with foliage patterns inside letter in blue and red with white highlighting. Later portions begin 5-line gold initial on parti-coloured blue and red ground, sprays

• England, London, British Library MS Harley 4789 / De Proprietatibus Rerum

same cololurs. Flourished Initials: 2-3 line alternating blue with red penwork or gold with paler blue penwork initials, postage stamps grounds. Flourished Initials: 2-3 line alternating blue with red penwork or gold with paler blue penwork initials, postage stamps grounds.

• Cambridge, Newnham College MS 4 / Piers Plowman, B version

and blue, with bosses at corners of foliage in same colours. Illuminated Initials: On f1 7-line initial 'I' in blue with white highlights forming geometric pattern of 'U's on it, on gold ground, with foliage patterns in rose and blue

• San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS HM 128 / Piers Plowman, B version

has 5-6 line blue and red initials (cut-out patterns joining the blue and red parts of the strokes), red and blue foliage decoration inside and postage stamp in red as ground; between these and in Piers, 2-4-line blue initials with

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1468, part III / Piers Plowman

Title by Scribe: None. Begins defective. Flourished Initials: Initial letters at beginnings of passus are 3 line initials in blue with red flourishing. Flourished Initials: Initial letters at beginnings of passus are 3 line initials in blue with red flourishing.

• London, Institution of Engineering and Technology Library, MS Thompson 1 / Astrolabe

larger display script. Title by Scribe: Title on f17v, 'Astralabium' Flourished Initials: Blue lombard initials, 3-6 lines, with red penwork flourishing at beginnings of each work; 2-line blue initials with red flourishing for divisions within texts; rubrics. Other Names (not

• Holkham, Norfolk, Holkham Hall, Collection of the Earl of Leicester MS 667 / Canterbury Tales

varying between 2-8 lines on pink and blue ground with some champe decoration for the beginning of tales and prologues. Paragraph Marks: Alternate red and blue. Flourished Initials: Some small initials in blue with red pen flourishing. Other Names (not

• Wales, Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS Peniarth 393D / Boethius

Initials: 2-3-line gold on blue, rose ground; white highlights; gold balls and buds on sprays; no green. Similar initials begin each Book. Paragraph Marks: Alternating red and blue paraphs introduce lesser divisions. Flourished Initials: 2-line blue Lombard initials with red

• USA, New York, NY, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Plimpton 254 / Astrolabe

Red paraphs. Red uderlining and red tipping of upper case letters. Flourished Initials: Blue 4-line initial with red ink flourishing on f12r to begin the text. 2-3-line blue initials flourished for section divisions. Red unflourished initial on f24v. Other Names

• USA, Philadelphia, PA, Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1084/1 / Canterbury Tales

recto preceded by blue paraphs flourished with red or gold flourished with blue ink. Illuminated Initials: 5-line gold initials with champe sprays on coloured background used for beginnings of tales, 3-line initials in same colours for links. Blue, pink, orange

• Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.2. (581) / Confessio Amantis

Latin number on the recto of each opening. Flourished Initials: Three-line red with blue penwork alternating with illuminated gold with silvery grey penwork; smaller one-line initials alternate blue with red penwork and red with silvery-grey penwork. Other Names (not owners):

• London, British Library, MS Harley 1337 / Prose Brut

on purplish-red ground (now almost black); blue and white foliage design inside letter; sprays into left margin with green leaves gold balls and trefoils. Paragraph Marks: Alternating red and blue Flourished Initials: 2-line blue lombard initials with red pen-work decoration

• London, British Library, MS Harley 6251 / Prose Brut

parti-coloured gold, blue and red with green leaf sprays, gold balls and trefoils into left and lower margins. Illuminated Initials: On f1 a 6-line gold initial on parti-coloured blue and red ground with white highlights. Flourished Initials: 2-line blue lombard

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Hatton 50 / Prose Brut

side in blue, rose, gold with sprays into left margin and along top and bottom borders Illuminated Initials: On f1, a 5-line gold lombard initial 'T' on parti-coloured blue and rose ground with white highlights Flourished Initials: 2-line blue lombard

• London, British Library, MS Harley 7184 / Confessio Amantis

the usual at end). Marginal Headings: Written in red with blue initials with red penwork postage-stamp squares around them. Running Titles: Running titles of 'Liber Primus' etc with large blue initial 'L' with red penwork and large gold 'P' etc

• London, British Library MS Arundel 119 / Lydgate, Destruction of Thebes

part, a 4-sided one begins the third part. Pink and blue on a gold ground and attached to the 3-sided border. Paragraph Marks: Blue with red flourishing, gold with blue flourishing. They act as markers in the text and are

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library Additional MS 3035 / Mirroir de l'homme

or blue initial, unembellished. Rubric sub-headings. Title by Scribe: On f1, ie pastedown at front Illuminated Initials: 2-3-line gold and blue parti-coloured initials with red pen-work flourishing. Flourished Initials: Rubric headings, each 12-line stanza begins with alternating red or blue

• Japan, Tokyo, Keio University MS 10 / Trevisa's translation of Bartholomeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum

on parti-coloured blue and rose ground which follows shape of letter to some extent, with white highlighting, and black-stemmed sprays of green leaf-buds, gold wheat heads and gold trefoils. Paragraph Marks: Alternating blue and red paraphs, the blue with red