• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

amoris'. In the same hand on ff. 69r-73v is a table of contents in Latin. Codex Parchment 270 190 mm Quires remounted. 1 12 , ff. 1-12v, catchword; 2 12 , ff. 13r-24v, catchword; 3 10 , ff. 25r-34v, catchword;

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

the end flyleaves and is both cropped and placed sideways. Codex Parchment and paper. The outer and central bifolia of quires are vellum whilst the others are paper. 210 120 mm 1 12 , ff. 3r-14v; 2 ? ; 3

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

swiche a lewed mannes witte shal pas'. 'here endith þe maunciples tale'. Codex Parchment 310 210 mm 1-33(8). Originally 34 quires of eights. First quire lost. Regular catchwords. Pricking not visible. Writing space of 210 x 110 mm. Text does

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

'Of hem that writen ous The bokes duelle'. 'un amie soulain'. Macaulay 1899-1902; Macaulay 1957. Codex Paper 290 210 mm Quires of eights. Catchwords. Three leaves missing according to Brown. Single columns with 30-48 lines. Not ruled. Macaulay describes the

• 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

• Illuminated initials 'D'(etestabilem) and 'V'(olo) on coloured grounds with white tracery., Compilation of patristic texts, imperfect

marginal glosses, notabilia and maniculae in black or purple (ff. 1-125).Patristic compilation: 7 quires missing at the beginning and at least 5 at the end, as suggested by the old foliation '70-189, 193-196, 244' (ff. 1-125). Illuminated initials on coloured

• Three decorated initials 'M'(are), 'N'(ili) and 'A'(er); in the lower half of the image are the remains of f. 2., De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, Book VIII (De astronomia also known as Hipparchus), imperfect (ff. 1-33v); two smaller texts (ff. 33v-39)

the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires); later medieval (?) leaf marks (in quire 1 the ff. 1-3 are foliated 'f.ii'-'f.iiii'; in quires 2-5 the first four leaves respectively are marked 'a', 'ai', 'aii',

• Text page with coloured initials and rubric., Thebais (index Thebaid)

coloured initials and rubric. Quires signatures in the lower margins of each final verso up to viiii.The text was copied from a Continental exemplar, also used to copy Paris BnF Nouv. acq. lat. MS 1627 (Tours) and Worcester MS Q.

• Coloured initial and rubric., Thebais (index Thebaid)

and rubric. Quires signatures in the lower margins of each final verso up to viiii.The text was copied from a Continental exemplar, also used to copy Paris BnF Nouv. acq. lat. MS 1627 (Tours) and Worcester MS Q. 8, according

• Text page., De oratore

Text page. ff. 17-24 are bound in the wrong order. Catchwords written horizontally. Quire marks (Roman numerals in the centre of the lower margin of the verso of the last leaf of the quires).A description of this manuscript written