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a later hand, regarding the Holy Blood of Hailes Abbey in Gloucestershire. Latin Codex Parchment 265 190 mm ii + 1 6 (wants 4); 2 8 , ff. 6r-13v, catchword; 3 8 , ff. 14r-21v, catchword; 4 8 , ff.

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49v, 61v, 73v, 85v, 87v, 108v, 121v. Collation as it survives today, quite complicated in the first and last quires: 1 12 (wants 1-3, 10-11); 2 12 (wants 1-2, 8-7, 11-12); 3 12 ; 4-12 12 ; 13 12 (only

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Horstmann 1892, p. 1. ff. 112r-114v Assumption of the Virgin (IMEV 2165 ) 'þer to ne letteþ hem haue no myȝt'. 'ffor hit was in þe tumbe yleyde' English Lumby 1866, 1901. Codex Parchment 362 250 mm 1 6 ;

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1 'modern' paper flyleaf at back along with 4 paper leaves added when rebound. None Good Unknown Belonged in the eighteenth century to ' Andrew Clerke ', f. 1; to the Norfolk antiquary Peter Le Neve (d. 1729), f.

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C.5.7 s. xv in English Latin Scribe 1 - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 418 327, LP 215 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 237). Scribe 2 writes a Latin text. Scribe 3 - Scribal Dialect:

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College, MS 13 s. xv ex English Scribe 1: Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 439 286, LP 699 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). Scribe 2: Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped but McIntosh,

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whiche mi defaute amende kan'. Southern recension of the text. Codex Parchment 265 160 mm 1 12 ; 2 12 (wants 12), 3 12 (wants 1, 9); 4 12 (wants 5-8), 5-8 12 . Catchwords: ff. 12v; 36v; 48v; 60v;

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188v-190r, with the title 'Practica Edwardi [Nigri ] , Universitatis Oxonie qui fuit...cirurgicus'. Codex Paper and parchment. 250 195 mm 1 8 ; 2-7 12 ; 8 11 ; 9-10 10 . Pricking: none apparent. Writing space of 195 x

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2403 s. xv ex English Scribe 1: Scribal dialect - Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 414 292, LP 517 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). A late fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Festial with an explanation of the Apostle's

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English Scribe 1 (ff. 4r-115v), Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 350 218, LP 7260 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 199). Scribe 3 (ff. 150r-183v), Scribal Dialect: Derbyshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p.

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Library Additional 36791 s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 437 258, LP 8070 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 245). An early fifteenth-century copy (c. 1425) of the Speculum Sacerdotale : a series of addresses

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155 mm Collation: Rebinding obscures evidence; probably eights throughout. Item 1: Page layout - single columns, 30 lines, drypoint, pricking not visible. Writing space - 185 x 105 mm. Item 1: One or possibly two scribes writing in an Anglicana

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Six scribes (of many) with a scribal dialect located to Warwickshire/Staffordshire. Scribe 1 (ff. 4r-21r) - Scribal Dialect: Suffolk, 'Language of Lavenham' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 116). Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 592 254, LP 8320. Suffolk.

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English ff. 133r-139r Matthew 1 'Matheu seiþ in þe firste chapytyl on þis wyse'. ' & ne lede us not in temptacyon but delyuere us of yuel. Amen'. English Codex Parchment 180 130 mm Irregular quires: 1 8 , ff.

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and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library , San Marino, Ca.: Huntington Library, 1, pp. 237-239. Hanna, R. 1984. The Index of Middle English Prose. Handlist 1. Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Henry E. Huntington Library

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be in a later hand?); 61v (in a very small hand in red ink at very bottom of folio). Item 1 - Pricking not visible. Writing space: double columns with each column 280 x 95 mm with 51 lines. Frame

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part 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 147. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: General Introduction, Index of Sources, Dot Maps , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aber deen University Press, 1. McIntosh,

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A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford , vol. 2, part 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, vol. 2, part 1, pp. 195-196. Onions, C. T. 1929. ‘ Middle English Ord and Ende ‘ , Modern Language

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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 grotesque heads in profile

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twelve, apart from quire 1 10 , quire 11 8 , and quire 15 10 . Catchwords throughout apart from penultimate quire, 15. Catchword on f. 10v in scroll. Pricking not visible. Writing space of 1 60 x c. 80