• Volvelle, Volvelle

Volvelle 1 volvelle, in colours and gold (f. 1). Volvelle Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), baronet, physician and collector. Purchased as part of the Sloane collection from Sloane's executors and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum in

• null, In gallicam antiquitatem

1 large decorated initial with a full strew border including a swan, a bird, and a unicorn, in colours and gold (f. 4). 1 large decorated initial, in colours and gold (f. 1).1 large initial in gold on a

• Illuminated initial 'S'(aepe) with a full border containing the royal arms of England surmounted by a crown, at the beginning of the text., Letter to Henry VII

England surmounted by a crown, at the beginning of the text. 1 initial in colours and gold with a full border containing the royal arms of England (f. 1). Letter to Henry VII Henry VII (b. 1457, d. 1509), king

• Zoomorphic initial 'C'(allimachi), partly formed of two fish or dolphins, at the beginning of Book 3 of Propertius's Elegies., Elegiae (index Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71)

1 perhaps originally had arms supported by putti. 1 large initial (erased), with a white vine border (erased) (f. 1).1 large initial, in colours and gold (over an erasure, f. 1).1 large zoomorphic initial, painted (f. 36v).

• Decorated initial 'C'(ynthia), at the beginning of Propertius's Elegies., Elegiae (index Elegies) (ff. 1-70); followed by two short texts (ff. 70-71)

1 perhaps originally had arms supported by putti. 1 large initial (erased), with a white vine border (erased) (f. 1).1 large initial, in colours and gold (over an erasure, f. 1).1 large zoomorphic initial, painted (f. 36v).

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

separately on modern paper. No catchwords survive. 'From contents and watermarks apparently: 1 8 (wants 1); 2 8 ; 3 12 ; 4-5 10 ; 6 10 (wants 1); four leaves of uncertain structure, ff. 58r-61v. One leaf lost after

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

College 13 s. xv 2 English Latin Scribe 1 (beginning to f. 169v, ff. 272r-287v): Scribal Dialect: Derbyshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference 415 362, LP 581 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, vol. 1, p. 154). Scribe 2 (ff. 170r-271v, 288r to

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Library Richardson 44 Aldenham MS s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 416 298, LP 678 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). A manuscript dated to the second quarter of the fifteenth century containing the