• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

with extended red penwork into left margin e.g. ff. 6v (stained), 14v. Not medieval. Date: early nineteenth century. Rebound by John Jones of Liverpool (worked for Holkham 1816-1823), brown gilt calf. Spine: STIMULUS/CONSCIENTIAE/MS./ANGL./SAEC.XIV./668. Coke family ostrich cre st in gilt

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

notation. In good condition with its original binding. Texts still clear and decoration fresh. Sixteenth century: F. 116r - ' John Morgan ' - late fifteenth/early sixteenth century. Catalogued and encoded by Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, 2003. Related Manuscripts

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

The fragmentary leaves of the manuscript have now been remounted separately. f. 1r South English Legendary: In principio (homily on John 1:1-14) (IMEV 276 ) '[A ] mong oþer gospels hit tys noȝt to byleue'. English f. 2r South English

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

T. Astle, p. 66. Erbe, T., ed. 1905. Mirk ’ s Festial : A Collection of Homilies by Johannes Mirkus, John Mirk edited from Bodl. MS. Gough Eccl. Top. 4, with variant readings from other MSS , EETS, es, 96,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

a crowke and thomas'- f. 109r. Perhaps Sir Thomas Ragland, originally of Carnlwdd in Llanarvan, Glamorganshire eldest son of Sir John Ragland of Carnlwdd knighted in 1513 and lord of Redwick, Monmouthshire in 1520. Hill 1963, p. 209. F. 47r

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

erased fifteenth-century inscription : '...Nicholas cum aliis ... in gallico'; on f. 54r in the bottom margin is another name, John, also erased (Duncan and Connolly 2003, p. xvii, and Mooney 1995, p. 12). Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

ioye come þat euere sschal ylaste. Amen'. Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 67-70. ff. 68r-69v South English Legendary: Life of St. John the Baptist ( IMEV 2945 ) 'Seint iohn was þe beste bern þe holie baptist'. 'Lete ous þorȝ oure