• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

nigrum'. Explicit stained and difficult to read. Other manuscripts: London, British Library, Additional 4797; London, British Library, Arundel 272; London, British Library, Harley 3840; London, British Library, Royal 18 A.vi; London, British Library, Sloane 7, 120, 135, 297, 962, 1315,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England London British Library Cotton Vespasian, B.xvi s. xiv/xv English Scribal dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 415 255, LP 4686 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). Only Piers Plowman has been linguistically analysed. A late-fourteenth/early fifteenth-century (Russell 1997)

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Bodleian Library, Oxford, with introduction and glossary , EETS, os, 60, London: Tr ü bner. Furnivall, F. J., ed, 1858. Early English Meals and Manners , EETS, os, 32, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr ü bner. Furnivall, F. J., ed,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-15 , London. compiled by the staff of the dept of MSS, revised by Julius P. Gilson, London: printed for the trustees. 1925, p. 194. Brown, C. 1918. ‘ Dialogue

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Cotton MS. Claudius A. II , EETS, os, 31, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr ü bner. Peacock, E. ed. 1868. Instructions for Parish Priests by John Myrc , EETS, os, 31, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr ü bner . Powell,

• Zoomorphic initial 'Q'(uod) formed by two biting dragons, and in the lower margin, the ink stamp of the Royal Society of London., De eucharista contra Petrum Martyrem Vermilium

the lower margin, the ink stamp of the Royal Society of London. 1 large zoomorphic initial (f. 1). 2 large decorated initials (ff. 45, 78). Decorated descenders, one including a Crucifixion (f. 182v). De eucharista contra Petrum Martyrem Vermilium Written

• Illuminated miniature of the Trinity, with God the Father seated enthroned holding the cross with the crucified Christ and the dove of the Holy Spirit above the head of Christ (a 'Gnadenstuhl Trinity'), and below, a kneeling donor, William Melreth, alderman of London, in prayer, with his arms. Below this in gold letters and in English is the caption 'Blessed be the trinite', and an inscription detailing Melreth's gift of the missal to the church of St Lawrence, London., Missal, Use of Sarum ('The Missal of William Melreth') with Gregory's Trental prayers

alderman of London, in prayer, with his arms. Below this in gold letters and in English is the caption 'Blessed be the trinite', and an inscription detailing Melreth's gift of the missal to the church of St Lawrence, London. Musical

• Detail of zoomorphic initial., De eucharista contra Petrum Martyrem Vermilium

the text is by Stephen Gardiner (b. 1495/8, d. 1555), theologian, administrator, and bishop of Winchester, and was written in London in 1549.Unidentified owner: inscribed with a shelfmark (?) '26' (?) (f. 1, upper left corner).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585,

• Detail of historiated initial., Missal, Use of Sarum ('The Missal of William Melreth') with Gregory's Trental prayers

with Gregory's Trental prayers The church of St Lawrence in London, given in 1446 by William Melreth, alderman, textile merchant of Broad Street, member of Parliament, and sheriff of London (colophon, f. 262v).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd

• Detail of a miniature of the Trinity., Missal, Use of Sarum ('The Missal of William Melreth') with Gregory's Trental prayers

with Gregory's Trental prayers The church of St Lawrence in London, given in 1446 by William Melreth, alderman, textile merchant of Broad Street, member of Parliament, and sheriff of London (colophon, f. 262v).? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd