• Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 198 / Gower Scribe or Scribe D

York, Columbia University MS Plimpton 265 Current Manuscript: Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 198 Folios: 2-266 Sampled Folios: 6v, 8v, 10r, 16v, 71v, 79v, 85v, 93v, 153v, 257r, 265v Image Rights: Reproduced by permission of the President and Fellows

• London, British Library MS Additional 27944 / Gower Scribe or Scribe D

the lower end of the stem. Usage: kyndeliche'; occasionally the scribe turns the tail of 'h' counter-clockwise. r Usage: 'keruynge'; long 'r' with fork at the level of the bottom of surrounding letters. The only example of long 'r' on

• USA, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS M 817 / Morgan M817 scribe

at the beginning of a line. All initial letters are tipped with yellow. y Usage: 'yow'; an angular appearance to the body of the letter. The tail of 'y', as with other tailed graphs, is fine and of varying length

• London, University Library MS V.88 / Gower Scribe or Scribe D

level of the elements preceding and following. Usage: 'how'; Usage: 'waxe'; an open head to the top of the second limb. Usage: 'trewe'; y Usage: 'ympe'; the tail of 'y' is variable in length. Usage: 'holy'; the left limb of

• Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 67 / Gower Scribe or Scribe D

this 'open-centred d' is typical of this scribe and many 'd's on the two folios examined are of this type. Usage: 'myddel'; in other manuscripts by this scribe, most of the 'd's would be of this type, ie with closed

• London, British Library MS Harley 1758 / Antiquaries 134 Scribe

within the letter characteristic of many of the upper case letters of this scribe. w Usage: 'with'; the classic shape for 'w' which varies hardly at all. Usage: 'Whan'; 'When' used as the first letter of the line, so presumably

• USA, Princeton, University Library, Robert H. Taylor Collection 5 (olim Phillipps 8192) / Gower Scribe or Scribe D

with permission of Princeton University Library a Usage: 'al'; double compartment 'a' used throughout. The upper compartment is usually, though not always, slightly smaller than the lower compartment. Usage: 'algates'; Usage: 'And'; one of the many variants of this scribe's

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Lyell 31 (olim Clumber) / Devonshire scribe, TCC R.3.3 scribe or slanted hooked 'g' scribe

hand of the scribe. h Usage: 'hath'; this rather squat version of 'h' with head-loop leaning on the shoulder and the descender resting on the line, is typical of most of the 'h' graphs. Usage: 'speche'; an occasional example of

• Tokyo, Professor Takamiya of Keio University MS 24 / Devonshire scribe, TCC R.3.3 scribe or slanted hooked 'g' scribe

over several of the preceding letters. Usage: 'Drily'; initial letters of lines tipped with red ink. Usage: 'Pardoner'; 'd' in the display script of the scribe in the rubric. g Usage: 'grace'; secretary tailed 'g'. The head of the right-hand

• London, College of Arms MS Arundel XLV (45) / Confessio Amantis

Marchantt of london' (16th c?) and beginning of a letter of introduction by 'Thomas Widdilton Merchantt'. Black's Catalogue, p. 71, also notes 'From several memoranda on the margins, it appears to have belonged to Michael and Thomas Man, ofYork,

• London, British Library, MS Additional 24062 / Thomas Hoccleve

an extension of 'd'. Usage: 'Quikford'; there are few examples of final 'd' in these documents. Here it is the final letter of a name and is given an emphatic tag. g Usage: 'grace'; Hoccleve uses various versions of the

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

Form of Living, Rolle; Poem on the love of Christ (IMEV 611) Language: English and Latin Scribal Hands: Adam Pinkhurst Material: Parchment No of Folios: 1 parchment stub (legal document) + 2 newish paper + 1 smaller stub of same

• England, Durham, Durham University Library MS Cosin V.III.9 / Hoccleve's Series or sequence

just to right of centre in lower margin last folio verso, no embellishment. Page Size: 27 x 166 Frame: Square, ruled within, with top line of text above top line of frame; pricking on very edges of few folios, eg

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

MS Appellation: Regiment of Princes Title: Regiment of Princes Author: Hoccleve Contents: De Regimine Principum (presentation copy) Language: English Date Range: 1400-1425; after 1413 when Henry V acceded to the throne. Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 1

• Scotland, Glasgow, Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 367 (V.1.4) / Polychronicon

day of Aueril: the yere of our lord a thousand thre hundred four score and seuen. The tenth yere of Kyng Richard the second after the conquest of englond. The yere of my lordis age Sir Thomas lord of berkeley

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

Trevisa's translation of Higden Contents: Dialogus inter militem et clericum (ff1-5r) (translation of William of Ockham, IPMEP 330); Defensio Curatorum (ff6-21) (trans. Richard FitzRalph's sermon, IPMEP 151); The book of methodii [th]e bischop (ff21v-23v) Of the Begynnyng of the World

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

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 leaf of each quire to mark centre of quire in same place. Quiring:

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Ll.4.14 / Piers Plowman, B version

Deposition ofRichard II in same hand and written in alliterative long lines (so Luard guesses intended as a continuation of Piers Plowman). Then other works by different hands, possibly separate booklets originally: ff27-148v treatise on The Art of Nounbring;

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 294 (SC 2449) / Gower Scribe or Scribe D

shape of lower case 'g'. The lower lobe tends to have the appearance of being squashed laterally. There is usually a hair-line stroke which joins lower lobe to upper lobe. The projection from the middle of the right side of

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 902 (SC 27573) / Gower Scribe or Scribe D

head of the stem and the start of the lobe of the graph. Usage: 'vplifte'; Usage: 'I'; the curved head stroke is typical of Scribe D's upper case 'I', as is the slight remnant of ink to the left of