• Illuminated initial 'H'(ec) and ivy-leaf borders incorporating a dragon, at the beginning of Bertrand de la Tour's Sermones Quadragesimales., Sermones Quadragesimales, followed (ff. 244v-246v) by a table of contents

nobility (b. 1728, d. 1810), diplomatist and transvestite; with a long note in French, signed by d'Éon and dated at London, 15 January 1786, stating that the manuscript is unique and was written in the year 711 (f. 1r-v): his

• Decorated initial 'P'(ascales) at the beginning of Sedulius's Carmen paschale, with simple red decoration in the bowl of the letter., Carmen paschale, and related material, including the Epistola ad Macedonium, and Hymnus I, and a list of contents

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 188). William Forrest, according to Ker, the vicar of Bledlow, near Thame, in 1556

• Decorated initials., Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini, prefatory poem, and poema coniugis ad uxorem, Poems (ff. 1; 22-23v)

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 188). William Forrest, according to Ker, the vicar of Bledlow, near Thame, in 1556

• Decorated iInitial 'Q'(uoniam) with foliate decoration, at the beginning of the prologue to Josephus's De bello Judaico., De bello Judaico

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 100, 269).A 'Marquiss of Donegall': book-plate withthis crest and coronet on a mantle (f.

• Puzzle initial 'N'(eronem) at the beginning of Book 3 of Josephus's De bello Judaico., De bello Judaico

Britain: A List of Surviving Books~, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 100, 269).A 'Marquiss of Donegall': book-plate withthis crest and coronet on a mantle (f.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

January 2004. Related Manuscripts and other documents Textual The treatise (item 2) is also found in London, British Library, MS Additional 4698, and London , British Library, MS Sloane 3160 which also contain texts ascribed a West Midlands dialect. Brodin,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

same scribe worked on what is now London, British Library, Harley 2420. The two manuscripts were originally one. A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1808-1812 , 4 vols., London: G. Eyre and A. Strahan, 2. Commenced

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England London British Library Harley 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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England London British Library Additional 59678 Winchester 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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Textual A member of the Lichfield subgroup (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 88). Scribal Written in the same hand as London, British Library, MS Harley 1205 (Lewis and McIntosh 1982, p. 87) which has a scribal dialect of 'Lichfield or