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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
20 SC 6420 s. xv 2 English Scribal dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: Not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). A generously decorated copy of the Canterbury Tales beginning with the General Prologue and ending with the
in alphabetical order. 169 chapters. Table of contents and treatise appear to be in separate hands. English Brodin 1950. ff. 62v-64r Medical Recipes English Codex Paper. 210 c. 145mm Each page remounted. Unable to ascertain. Pricking: none. Writing space of
199r-v South English Legendary: Life of St. Edmund the King(IMEV 2887 ) 'De sancto edmundo rege & martire'. 'Seynt edmunde the martyr was kyng of a parte of englond'. Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 296-299. ff. 199v-201r South English Legendary: Life
a crysten man moo. Deo gracias'. English Erbe 1905. ff. 191v-194r Explanation of the Apostle's Creed in English 'The fyrst is y beleve in god almyȝty'. 'kepe well ten and fle from sevyn'. English Codex Parchment 200 140 mm 1
scribes although the texts written by Scribe 1 are in sixteen distinct varieties of Middle English. In total there are nineteen varieties of Middle English in the manuscript, as discerned by McIntosh and Wakelin (1982, p. 447). A detailed description
Harley 2417 s. xv 1 English Scribal dialect: North West Worcestershire. Earlier, incorrectly analysed as Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 371 273, LP 702 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 249). A copy of Mirk's Festial from the first half
'The entre' and incipit, 'Byfore þat eny þing was wrouȝt'. English Ed. Morris 1863. pp. 205-224 Speculum Gy de Warewyck (IMEV 1101 ) 'Herknes alle to my speche'. Unreadable, imperfect. English Morrill 1898. Codex Parchment. Fairly thick. 245 145 mm
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. Voigts, L.E. 1985. A Handlist of Middle English in Harvard Manuscripts , Cambridge, Mass.
of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 4. Pearsall, D. ed. 1990. Studies in the Vernon Manuscript , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, p. 42. Sajavaara, K., ed, 1967. The Middle English Translations of Robert
Library Eng. 90 Ashburnham 136 s. xiv/xv English Latin Scribal Dialect: Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 373 286, LP 4218 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 234). A late fourteenth/early fifteenth century (Ker 1983, p. 413) copy of the Prick
47, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 255-284. Duff, E. G. 1917. Fifteenth-Century English Books: a bibliography of books and documents printed in England and of books for the English market printed abroad , Bibliographical Society Illustrated Monographs 18, Oxford: Oxford
Modern Language Association of America, p. 292. Braswell, L. 1987. The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist IV: A Handlist of Douce Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 36-37. Coxe,