• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

11-30. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Underhill, E., ed, 1923. The Scale of Perfection , London: John M. Watkins.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Shropshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, 1986, vol. 1, p. 149). A fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Instructions for Parish Priests copied by John Holyns. ff. 1r-33v John Mirk Instructions for Parish Priests (IMEV 961 ) 'God seythe hymselfe as wretyn

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 239). A mid fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Festial . ff. 1r-164r John Mirk Festial (IPMEP 734 ) 'God maker of all þyng be at our begynnyng and ȝif

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

10r, 10v, and 11r recording the birth of the children of John Shirley (1535-1570) of Staunton Harold and Rakedale in Leicestershire (Matheson 1998; Harris 1983). F. 30v ' John ?Badon ' (?Badoat) in drypoint, sixteenth century. F. 101v, 'Thomas'; 'th';

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

John Pryns (ff. 10v, 23v), Margret Coren (13r, 18v, top margin), Rychard Lewelyn (f. 23v), John Williams , Nicholas Williams (f. 25 on the right margin) and Thomas Carwardyn (?), and a few others which are difficult to read;

• Decorated initial 'R'(egistrum) with penwork decoration of leaves, at the beginning of the cartulary of John Blaunchard., Cartulary of John Blaunchard

6v, 7, 12v). Spaces for initials left blank from ff. 45-47 and f. 62 to the end. Cartulary of John Blaunchard John Blaunchard, archdeacon of Worcester (reigned 1371-1383), relating to the manor of Barford St Martin, Wiltshire.William George Richard Stanley

• Decorated initial 'R'(egistrum) with penwork decoration of leaves, at the beginning of the cartulary of John Blaunchard., Cartulary of John Blaunchard

6v, 7, 12v). Spaces for initials left blank from ff. 45-47 and f. 62 to the end. Cartulary of John Blaunchard John Blaunchard, archdeacon of Worcester (reigned 1371-1383), relating to the manor of Barford St Martin, Wiltshire.William George Richard Stanley

• Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a man shooting at a bird, with an owl at the top of the tree., Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals')

University of Paris (f. 4). John Batayle, a canon of St Bartholomew's at Smithfield, mentioned among other canons in a clerical subsidy roll of 1379 and named in a will of 1382, made by John Chyshull, another canon of St

• Miniature of a debate between a clerk and a knight in a garden, before the king of France and the personifications of Spiritual Power in a Franciscan habit, and Temporal Power represented as a queen, with the author sleeping, at the beginning of the text., Le Songe du Vergier

valued for his executors and priced 12 Parisian pounds (see Inventaire de la bibliothèque du roi Charles VI 1867). John[John of Lancaster], duke of Bedford (b. 1389, d.1435), regent of France and prince, probably purchased by him with the

• Detail of a miniature of a dialogue between a clerk and a knight, with a full border and a shield bearing the royal arms of France flanked by a lion., Le Songe du Vergier

valued for his executors and priced 12 Parisian pounds (see Inventaire de la bibliothèque du roi Charles VI 1867). John[John of Lancaster], duke of Bedford (b. 1389, d.1435), regent of France and prince, probably purchased by him with the