• 'Champ' initial (added later) and smaller initials with pen-flourishing., Bible historiale

'Champ' initial (added later) and smaller initials with pen-flourishing. Large initials in gold and colours, some painted over earlier initials (ff. 2, 9, 10, 40v, 44, 48, 54v, 56v, 58, 87, 118). The flourishing includes a hybrid creature (f.

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with the royal arms of England, at the beginning of the text., Tractatulus de regimine seu caritate principum

Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1661, Royal Appendix 86, f. 28.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Royal arms of England Stephen Baron London England, S. E. (London?)

• Puzzle initial 'C'(um) with pen-flourished decoration at the beginning of the statutes for Westminster., A collection of English statutes and laws to the reign of Richard II, including statutes for Westminster, Exeter and Winchester (ff. 1-29), and a chancery register (ff. 30-54)

nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Puzzle initial London England, S. (London ?)

• Historiated initial 'L'(ocutus) of Moses speaking to the Israelites, with a sketch for an illuminator, at the beginning of Numbers., Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy A Dominican convent, London, founded after 1221, perhaps given by an unidentified countess: inscription on the 18th-century binding, probably copied from a note on the original binding, 'COMITISSAE / TOM II' and 'OLIM. CONVENT./ PRAED. LONDON'; see also Royal

• Historiated initial 'P'(arabole) of Solomon teaching Rehoboam, at the beginning of Proverbs, with ownership signatures of Arundel and Lumley., Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus

Ecclesiasticus A Dominican convent, London, founded after 1221, perhaps given by an unidentified countess: inscription on the 18th-century binding, probably copied from a note on the original binding, 'COMITISSAE / TOM V' and 'OLIM. CONVENT./ PRAED. LONDON'; see also Royal

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England London British Library Cotton Vitellius D.iii s. xiii ex English French Latin Scribal dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 399 233, LP 7120 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A late thirteenth-century manuscript (Guddat-Figge suggests a date of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

so closely related, they effectively constitute only a single witness to the authorial text', Cartlidge, p. xl. Rela ted to London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A. ix. They share the same copytext according to Cartlidge (2001, p. xl), who

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

New York and London: Modern Language Association of America. Blom-Smith, E. M. 1992. ‘ The Lyf of Oure Lord and the Virgyn Mary edited from MS Trinity College Cambridge B.15.32 and MS Bodley 578 ’ , diss. London. Holmstedt, G.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

from Llanthony Priory ’ , Speculum , 3, 587-595. Brown. C. ed., 1932. English Lyrics of the Thirteenth Century , London: Oxford University Press, pp. xxvii, 114-19, 212. Coxe, H. O. 1852. Catalogus Codicum MSS. qui in Collegiis Aulisque Oxoniensibus

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

os, 13, London: Tr ü bner & Co. Conlee, J. W, ed. 1991. Middle English Debate Poetry: A Critical Anthology , East Lansing: Colleagues Press Davies, R. T., ed, 1963. Medieval English Lyrics: a critical anthology , London: Faber. Dean,