• Cambridge, University Library Mm.2.21 / Hand A

Hand A Current Manuscript: Cambridge, University Library Mm.2.21 Folios: ff1-16v (quires 1-2), 17-32v (quires 3- 4), 41-64v (quires 6-8), 73-88v (quires 10-11), 97-136v (quires 13-17), 145-152v (quire 19), 161-176v (quires 21-22) Sampled Folios: 32v Image Rights: Reproduced by kind permission

• USA, Chicago, IL, Newberry Library MS f.33.5 / Confessio Amantis

ff71-2 should follow f66; f103 should follow f106. Quiring: 8s; first two quires missing; quires 3-108, Saenger notes after that quiring disturbed by rebinding and collation 'impracticable'. Signatures: Quires are numbered by scribe in lower margin of first leaf of

• Cambridge, Peterhouse MS 75, Part 1 / Equatorie of the Planetis

Quiring: mixed, quires of 12, 4 and 8 Signatures: most cropped but some, e.g., 1.iij to g.iiij on 65-66, i.ij to i.ij on 75-76; modern pencil quire numbers in lower outer corner of first folios Catchwords: none; quires numbered by

• USA, Austin, Texas, University of Texas at Austin, The Harry Ransom Center, pre-100 MS 143 (Cardigan) / Canterbury Tales, Siege of Thebes, Churl and Bird

26-29(12), 30(4) Catchwords: Hand 1, who copies the quires of 12 folios includes a catchword on each verso of the last half of the quires: thus in quires 1-15 and 25-30. In quires 16-24, mainly in 8's, Hand 2 copies

• London, British Library MS Additional 35286 / Canterbury Tales

8's, but with loss of may leaves and two whole quires. Signatures: The present quire signatures are not original and were added after the loss of the two quires. The quires are now lettered a-z and aa-jj on the first

• USA, Chicago, University of Chicago, Regenstein Library MS 564 / Canterbury Tales

Pagination: Modern foliation. Quiring: 1-24(8) Signatures: Original signatures but probably 8 quires missing at the beginning as well as several at the end. Signatures begin with jiiii. For quires from 24-29, abbreviations 'et' (and), 'con' (with) 'est and 'amen'. From

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS e. Musaeo 16 / De Proprietatibus Rerum

this further into outer corner, faint grey ink may be originals by supervisor? Does use letters to count quires, eg the quires of 214-18 has 'Z' in extreme lower corner, numbers cropped. Catchwords: By scribe centred under second column, last

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 163 / Troilus; Balade to Rosamunde

foliation in ink in top right corner. Quiring: From the beginning up to f52 the quires appear to be of twelve leaves. After f52 the quires are of eight leaves. Signatures: The first quire is incomplete but seems to have

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Gg.1.34 / Mandeville's Travels

only to f7; also same pencil at bottom right notes cross at centres of quires (on recto of first folio of second half) and numbers quires on recto of first folio of each quire, all in lower margin, right, immediately

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 16 / Poems

+ 1-340 + i paper flyleaf Pagination: Modern pencil. Quiring: Mainly 8 Signatures: Visible in some quires. Catchwords: At the end of most quires. Up to f110 the catchwords have no boxing and occur in the middle of the lower

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 141 / Canterbury Tales

foliated in pencil but the ink numbering becomes a pagination. Quiring: 8's but some quires missing as well as individual folios. Catchwords: On final folios of quires beginning with f103v (pencil foliation). The catchwords are in dark ink and surrounded

• London, British Library MS Additional 23002 / Astrolabe

two of the flyleaves for notes and begins numbering the actual text at 3 instead of 1. Quiring: 8's but quires are now all mounted separately. Signatures: In quire 2 there is evidence of Arabic numbering in the bottom right

• Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.20 (600) / Shirley Anthology of Chaucer and Lydgate

recto only using arabic numerals. Quires numbered in roman numerals on verso of last folio of each quire, below and to the right of catchwords. They begin with 'xiiij' on page 16, so several quires once at the beginning of

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Ii.5.41 / De Proprietatibus Rerum

of newer paper for flyleaves. Pagination: Modern pencil foliation in upper outer corners recto; modern pencil counting and numbering of quires lower outer corner recto of first folio of each quire (Bartholomeus 1-44, 14th century text 45-46) and pencil cross

• Tokyo, Takamiya Collection MS 32 / A collection including the Canterbury Tales

Quiring: 8 Signatures: Some original signatures still visible and roman numerals in centre of footer at the beginning of most quires. Catchwords: Of a possible 25 catchwords, 18 are present. Page Size: 330 x 250 Frame: Ruled Writing Space: 260

• London, Lambeth Palace Library MS 256 / Fall of Princes

Devonshire scribe, TCC R.3.3 scribe or slanted hooked 'g' scribe Material: Parchment No of Folios: 180 Pagination: Modern numbering of quires in lower right corner of first folios, pencil, eg '13' on f96; modern foliation in upper outer corners, pencil.

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 104 / Piers Plowman, C version

in LALME. Material: Parchment No of Folios: 1-112 Pagination: Top right hand corner in modern pencil. Quiring: 8s, with 2 quires of 10. Catchwords: Bottom right hand corner of verso leaves. Page Size: 215 x 148 Frame: Frame ruled in

• Cambridge, St. John's College MS H.1 (204) / Polychronicon

parchment flyleaf Pagination: Modern pencil, upper outer corner on first folio of quires only. Quiring: 8s Signatures: Modern signatures in pencil lower outer corner of first folio of quires only, lettering 'a' through 'z' and 'A' through 'M'. Catchwords: By

• London, Society of Antiquaries MS 687 / Piers Plowman, A version

12s Signatures: Signatures: in Piers, quires numbered by ink similar to hand of scribe and similar colour, 'xxj' on page 471, 'xxij' on 495, 'xxiij' on 523, 'xxiiij' on page 551; and another set of quires signatures for same leaves,

• London, British Library MS Harley 7333 / 'A library of secular literature' (Manly and Rickert), including the Canterbury Tales. There are 7 books now joined to form a single manuscript.

foliation is in roman numerals, but there are now missing folios and missing quires. Modern foliation 1-211. Quiring: 8's with some missing leaves and several entire quires. Signatures: There is evidence of several different sets of signatures. In Canterbury Tales