• USA, San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS HM 111 / Hoccleve holograph of his works.

pencil at bottom right of every folio in the manuscript, in letter plus arabic number and for second halves of quires as well as first. Catchwords: By the scribe towards the centre of the lower margin. Page Size: 210 x

• London, British Library MS Royal 18 C.XXII / Confessio Amantis

bosses. Illuminated Initials: 2-line gold initials on parti-coloured blue and pink grounds with white highlights, no sprays, as in many quires of Add 24194. Flourished Initials: One-line blue initials with red penwork decoration. Flourished Initials: One-line blue initials with red

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 797, part III / Boece

on f. Cxxxviij Quiring: 12s Signatures: Visible in first quire and may be 'I' followed by numerals 'i-vj'. In succeeding quires they have been mainly cropped. Catchwords: Catchwords contained in scroll-like features tipped with red ink. Page Size: 268 x

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson D.913, Part 1 / Regiment of Princes

Folios: Single leaf Pagination: Pencil '63' in upper outer corner recto, foliation running through volume even though snippets and loose quires from several original volumes, different sizes and different dates. Page Size: 167 x 107 Frame: Only frame lines visible

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 600 / Canterbury Tales

Pagination: Modern foliation Quiring: 8 Signatures: None visible Catchwords: Catchwords are present at the end of all but about seven quires. Page Size: 290 x 200 Frame: Brown crayon, double ruled at top and bottom but now barely visible. Writing

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson D.913, Part 9 / Astrolabe

Box. Language: English and Latin Date Range: 1425-1450 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 23-42 Quiring: First two quires of 8 last quire of 6 with two missing. Signatures: Some signatures b and ci-iiij Catchwords: Catchwords Page Size:

• Oxford, Trinity College MS Arch. 49 / Canterbury Tales

No of Folios: 295 Pagination: Modern foliation. Quiring: 8's and 10's Signatures: None visible Catchwords: Catchwords can be seen in quires 3-5, 19, and 24-30. Page Size: 260 x 210 Frame: Dry-point margin only. Writing Space: 200 x 105 Incipits

• London, British Library MS Additional 28617 / Legend of Good Women

Quiring: Dan Mosser gives the following assessment: completely refashioned ms with all leaves mounted on guards. Four partially intact surviving quires, all the same paperstock, a Column, (Briquet Colonne 4349 or very close (Montebourg 1425). Missing leaves and partial leaves

• London, British Library MS Harley 1704 part 2 / Prioress's Tale

in top right corner. Quiring: Uncertain as the leaves have been mounted individually. Signatures: A few very faint traces in quires 2-4. Catchwords: None in Prioress's Tale but they do exist on ff 23v, 39v and 55v. Page Size: 277

• London, British Library MS Harley 2251 / English Poetry Anthology

Pagination: Both modern and medieval pagination in upper outer corners; the scribe also numbered folios in each of first two quires. Quiring: 20 Signatures: The signature 'dj' begins on f100; a series of 'f' signatures begin on f140; 'k' begins

• London, British Library MS Harley 3943 / Troilus and Criseyde

LP 6030; County: Essex Material: Parchment No of Folios: 116 Pagination: Modern pencil foliation top outer corner recto. Quiring: 14 quires of 8 (quire 8 missing 2 folios), quire 15 (6). Signatures: None although Books are numbered in roman numerals

• London, British Library MS Harley 7335 / Canterbury Tales

pencil in upper outer corners recto 1-163. Quiring: 8 mixed parchment and paper; complicated by missing leaves and several whole quires. See Manly and Rickert I: 231-232 and Seymour II: 129. Signatures: Mostly cropped; a few survive eg f35 =

• London, Society of Antiquaries MS 134 / Confessio Amantis, Regiment of Princes

f41, they are arabic number followed by letter in lower right, the numbers counting four first leaves of quires, and letters counting quires; e.g. on f41 '3 g'. on f73, '3 l' [lower case 'L'] f128 '2 s' Catchwords: None

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Dd.4.24 / Canterbury Tales

+ lower case roman numerals. Modern pencil foliation in arabic numerals 1-217. Quiring: 24s with inner and outer bifolia of quires as parchment leaves. Signatures: Few remains of signatures, 'ff' on f30, 'h' on f32, pencil 'cj' on f49 and

• London, British Library, MS Additional 34360 / English Poetry Anthology

the second booklet by the scribe in medieval arabic numerals on the first ten folios 58-67. Catchwords: Included wherever the quires carry over within booklets, by the scribe, with black-red shadowed sleigh under. Page Size: 268 x 198 Frame: Square,

• Oxford, Christ Church MS 148 / Confessio Amantis

6-leaf quire. Another stub precedes f6. The second quire is now of seven leaves with catchword on f12v. Thereafter the quires are in eights. The last quire is also a six with Gower's explication on f207r leaving the verso originally

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 45 / Cook's Tale

first of 4 MSS of various dates; ff2-31v + Pagination: Modern pencil foliation on upper outer corners of rectos ff1-41; quires lettered 'A' on f2, 'B' on f8, 'C' on f12, 'D' on f16, 'E' on f20, 'F' on 24,

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 657 / Works of Richard Wallingford

as in other Bodley manuscripts; upper outer corner recto. Quiring: 8 ; may originally have been separate booklets; almost two quires of blank but ruled at the end. Catchwords: None Page Size: 210 x 125 Frame: 2 x vertical, 3

• Scotland, Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates' MS 18.1.7. / Mirrour of the Blessed Life

pencil foliation upper outer corners recto, counting older flyleaves ruled but blank, 4 at front and 2 at back. Quiring: quires of 8 Signatures: begin with '+.i' on folio 6, 'a.i' on folio 16 Catchwords: by each scribe in his

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Bodley 221 / Hoccleve, Series, Lydgate, Dance of Death, Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes

outer rectos by hand like (or identical with) the Digby foliator, stylized arabics with 8 on its side, etc. Quiring: Quires of 26 of which inner and outer bifolia are parchment. Signatures: Signatures survive in lower outer margin rectos of