• Decorated initial 'R'(emedium), in the Liber de venenis., Miscellany, including the Liber de venenis (ff. 1- 32)

Decorated initial 'R'(emedium), in the Liber de venenis. 1 large initial in red with pen-flourishing in red and brown (f. 1). Large initials in plain red or blue some with penwork decoration or pen-flourishing in blue or red, some decorated

• null, Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v)

1 large puzzle initial (f. 1). Small initials alternately blue with red penwork decoration, or vice versa. Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v) ? Written in or shortly before 1235:

• null, Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v)

1 large puzzle initial (f. 1). Small initials alternately blue with red penwork decoration, or vice versa. Historia adversus paganos (ff. 1-68v), and an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69-73v) ? Written in or shortly before 1235:

• Detail of an historiated initial 'A'(lpha) of a teacher giving a lecture to his students, at the beginning of book 1., Summa super titulis Decretalium

teacher giving a lecture to his students, at the beginning of book 1. Catchwords and bifolium signatures. Running titles. Instructions for book numbers and rubrics. 1 historiated (f. 1) and 3 foliate (ff. 81, 153v, 225, 264) initials in colours

• Puzzle initial 'P'(rofessores) with foliate penwork decoration, at the beginning of Edward Grim's Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis, with the ink-stamp of the Royal Society in the lower margin., Vita S. Thomae Cantueriensis; epistolae, and related texts, imperfect

a larger volume: foliated from ff. 145-190 in a 16th-century (?) hand. 1 puzzle initial in red and blue with red and blue foliate penwork decoration (f. 1). Large initials in red or blue, many with penwork decoration in the

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

1884. c. 130 c. 90 mm Unascertainable Double and single columns with c. 40 lines. Margins marked and ruled. Scribe 1 - ff. 1-5, small/tiny book-hand, possibly French. Body height: 1mm. Scribe 2 - ff. 6-8, early type of Anglicana,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

pricking visible. Writing space: Item 1 - 145 x 90 mm. Item 2 - 155 x 90 mm. Item 3 - double columns 150 x 45 mm each. Columns are single and double. Lines: Item 1 - 27; Item 2

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 237). Scribal Dialect of ff. 119r-164v: Northamptonshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 147). A composite manuscript made up of five manuscripts of mainly Latin texts but including a short English

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

comencent les singnes del iour de nouel'. 'Si le iour de noel auent par dimaines bon iuer'. French Thorndike 1923, 1, 678-9; Vising 1923, 305; ff. 41r-46r Prognostications of lucky and unlucky days according to the moon. 'Ci comence le