• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Last four lines of text missing. Codex Parchment 290 200 mm 1-6 8 . No catchwords. Pricking: visible in all quires and regularly spaced throughout the quire; two small rounded marks, 5 mm apart, not always visible, but noticeable on

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

) Acephelous A f ragment only partially copied and now difficult to read. English. Codex Parchment 310 210 mm Fifteen quires. Eights. Catchwords throughout. Pricking heavily cropped. Writing space of c. 220 x 140 mm. Single columns with 31 lines.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

8 ; 19 10 ; 20-23 8 . According to Rigg and Brewer (1983, p. 5) ff. 124r-139r are two quires that were 'originally separate from the rest of the manuscript'. Pricking: not visibl e. Writing space: 190 x 125.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

the thirteenth-century Wooing of Our Lord . English Horstmann 1896, pp. 345-366. Westra 1950. Codex Parchment 590 390 mm The quires of the manuscript have been remounted. Catchwords: ff. 6v; 14v; 22v; 30v; 35v; 43v; 59v; 69v; 77v; 83v; 91v;

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

left blank in the quires he copied. Characteristics: 'steady set round anglicana' without Secretary influence (Doyle, 1987, pp. 11-12). One-line coloured (normally blue or red) or gold initials, which normally have contrasted and alternating penwork. Quires 32-36, and 41 have

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

No original quire or leaf signatures visible; modern quire marks added in pencil. Catchwords visible at the ends of all quires except II and VII' (McKitterick and Beadle 1992, pp. 73-74). Pricking visible - slits or double slits. Ruled for

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

hyng'. English Codex Parchment 300 220 mm. Twelve quires of eight. Ff. 1 and 2 originally flyleaves. First two folios blank. Quire 12 wants two leaves after f. 94. Catchwords for all quires except quire 1. Catchword in scroll with

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

- a holster book. Originally 11 quires of 12 leaves. Catchwords ff. 25v, 37v, 49v, 61v, 73v, 85v, 87v, 108v, 121v. Collation as it survives today, quite complicated in the first and last quires: 1 12 (wants 1-3, 10-11); 2

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

7 and the beginning of quire 8, no catchword on the last folio of quire 7. Pricking: visible in all quires, as reference to trace the frame, two at the top and two at the bottom margin, but irregular in

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

with red and blue penwork. Three-line blue initials with red penwork decoration. Four-line lombardic capitals. Very little decoration in later quires. Not medieval. Size: 200 x 145 mm. Cover: red leather over pasteboard with gold stamp of two angels holding

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

& ne lede us not in temptacyon but delyuere us of yuel. Amen'. English Codex Parchment 180 130 mm Irregular quires: 1 8 , ff. 1r-8v, catchword; 2 4 , ff. 9r-12v; 3 8 , ff. 13r-20v, catchword; 4 8

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

venerabilis lincolniensis qui dicitur stimulus consciencie'. English ff. 123r-174v St. Gregory Pastoral Care Latin Codex Parchment 207 137 mm Sixteen quires of twelve, apart from quire 1 10 , quire 11 8 , and quire 15 10 . Catchwords throughout

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

a writing space of 120 x 80 mm. Single columns with 24-28 lines. Frame ruled in purplish crayon in some quires and lines in drypoint but often not visible. Scribe 1 writes in an Anglicana Formata script on pp. 1-18,