• London, British Library MS Stowe 950 / Confessio Amantis

1 + 2-176 parchment leaves + back pastedown Pagination: Modern pencil in upper outer corners recto; signatures survive in most quires, beginning 'b j' on folio 3, so first surviving folio of CA is the last leaf of first quire

• London, British Library, Harley 2376 / Piers Plowman, C version

on this first parchment folio. Quiring: 8s Signatures: Signatures survive on many folios, lower right recto first four leaves of quires, lower case letter plus arabic number, beginning 'a.1.' on f1, to 'p.4.' on f119 and just arabic numbers '1'

• London, British Library, Additional 10574 / Piers Plowman, B version

Signatures: Signatures survive only 'a' through 'd' in lower right corners of first four leaves each quire (survive for some quires, eg ff41-44 have 'a' through 'd', and these appear to be in scribe's hand and ink; also some bits

• London, British Library, Additional 34779 / Piers Plowman, C version

f79, 'M///' on f81. Catchwords: By scribe, lower right of verso of each quire, running into gutter, cropped from some quires completely but part or whole surviving in some: see ff17v, 24v, 32v, 64v, 72v, 88v and added by corrector

• London, British Library, Additional 35287 / Piers Plowman

to 89-104. Quiring: 8s Signatures: Signatures are l.c. letter plus romans i=iiii eg 'g j' to 'g iiij' on ff49-52; quires numbered below the catchwords on last folio verso, lower margin, numbered with roman numerals, eg 'iiij-us lower margin f32v

• USA, New Haven, CT, Beinecke Library MS 493 (olim Phillipps 8267, olim Bodmer) / Hoccleve's Series

1 newer parchment Pagination: Modern, usual place ff1-134. Quiring: 14s Signatures: Signatures in lower outer corners of first half of quires, lower case letters plus roman numerals. Catchwords: Lower margin of last folio verso each quire, near right frame line,

• Oxford, Christ Church MS 152 / Canterbury Tales

outer corners recto superseded by newer pencil foliation in upper outer corners recto. Medieval signatures counting first ten folios of quires only, with lower case letter in upper outer corners recto and medieval arabic numbers for 1-10 in lower outer

• Oxford, St John's College MS 57 / Miscellany including Parlement of Fowls

scribe in the same ink as the text of lower case roman numerals i-iiij in the first half of the quires but often partly cropped Catchwords: In the usual place by the scribe with a modified sleigh underline with concave

• London, British Library MS Additional 10340 / Boece

flyleaf (originally pastedown?) Pagination: Pencil in right upper corner. Folios 1 and 2 are the original flyleaves. Quiring: Originally 5 quires of 8 leaves. 3rd quire beginning on f19 is of now of 7 leaves with only the stub of

• London, British Library, Harley 3869 / Confessio Amantis

first quire of 4, ie from f5 onwards, signatures survive in lower right corner each leaf through first half of quires, two sets, contemporary and possibly by same hand, one with a, b, c, etc. plus roman numbers, the other

• Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.15.17 (353) / Piers Plowman, B version

for the paper leaves at the back. Quiring: 1-16(8), 17(2), 18(8), 19(9 x missing) Signatures: Modern pencil arabic numbering of quires in lower right corner of first folio of each quire. No medieval foliation or signatures have survived the cropping.

• Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 307 / Confessio Amantis

flyleaves. Pagination: Modern pencil in upper outer corners recto, foliating, but only on the first leaf of each quire. The quires are numbered in arabic in pencil on the lower outer corner of the recto of the first leaf of

• London, British Library, MS Arundel 59 / Regiment of Princes, Secretum Secretorum

quire of 12 with the last two folios blank and unnumbered. Same scribe's numbering in second booklet for two full quires of 20 (ff. 80-129) and last folio (130) is a single. Quiring: 20s Catchwords: By the scribe, in black

• London, British Library, MS Arundel 38 / Regiment of Princes

glosses column, at the extreme lower edge of page (unless cropped even more severely than appears). Catchwords: None in most quires but see f8v and f16v, by the scribe, up to right line of text frame, black ink, fine-line black

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 735 / Hoccleve, Series, Lydgate, Dance of Death,Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes

Princes (begins f62). Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: De Regimine Scribe Material: Combination; mixed paper and parchment; 14-leaf quires with inner and outer bifolia of parchment, 5 bifolia of paper in each No of Folios: 2 original parchment

• London, British Library MS Cotton Vespasian B.XXII / Admiralty Ordinances

Quiring: 8s Signatures: Two versions of signatures both medieval in lower right corners recto, one ' across lower margin numbering quires in romans, eg vj on f50, viij on f66; signatures further to right in lower right corner recto of

• England, London, British Library MS Harley 1900 / Polychronicon; Trevisa's translation

outer corners recto, 1-310. Quiring: 12s Catchwords: Every page (except in index) has a one-word catchword, but at ends of quires they are larger and in usual place with fine ink box around them. Page Size: 355 x 240 Frame:

• Manchester, Chetham's Library MS 11379 (Mun. A.6.90) / Polychronicon

outer corners recto, 1-178. Quiring: 12s Catchwords: By the scribe, running to near right margin of last folio verso of quires, written in black ink same as text; with fine-line black box around with two inside-out scallops forming a point

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Mm.2.21 / Confessio Amantis

Arabic foliation i through clxxxiii in upper outer corner recto; no modern foliation or pagination, but modern pencil counting of quires in lower margin of recto first leaf, with the last '23' on f177, and a cross on the 5th

• Nottingham, University of Nottingham Library, Wollaton Library Collection MS WLC LM 8 / Confessio Amantis

Signatures: 'from the second quire, all leaves in the first half of each quire signed, with letter and arabic numeral (quires 2-26 = a-z, &, con).' Catchwords: 'Regular catchwords on more and less elaborate scrolls, the first two examples ochre-washed';