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Manuscripts and other documents Scribal Scribe 1 of Holkham Hall 668 is also Scribe 1 of Oxford, Trinity College, 16B (D. 16 B ) (see Lewis and McIntosh 1982, pp. 121-122) and Scribe 1 of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. poet.

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239). Folios 144v-147r have a scribal dialect of Dorset, Grid: 386 122, LP 5340 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 100). A fifteenth-century manuscript including Hilton's Treatise of a Contemplative Life , a chapter from pseudo-Bonaventura's Meditationes Vitae

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875 s. xv in English Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-8v): Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 412 273, LP 4680 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). Scribe 2 (ff. 9r-22v): Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 433 252,

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SC 1806 s. xv in English Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-7r): Scribal Dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 382 259, LP 7710 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). Scribe 2 (ff. 9r-122r): Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 450

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sloth. Latin Codex Parchment 205 125 mm 1 8 ; 2 6 + 1 leaf after 3 (f. 12) and 1 leaf after 6 (f. 16); 3-4 8 ; 5 8 + 1 leaf after 3 (f. 36); 6 4

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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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[mutilated ] '. Only a small portion of f. 100 remains. Morris 1863; Waters 1976. Codex Parchment 238 170 mm 1 8 , 2 8 (with 8 excised), 3-4 8 , 5 10 , 6-12 8 , 13 ?6 (wanting

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'...ferþe for he is uncertayne'. 'That for oure heele on roode gan hynge. Amen'. English Codex Parchment 185 115 mm 1 8 , ff. 1-8v, catchword; 2 8 , ff. 9r-16v, catchword; 3 8 , 17r-24v, catchword; 4 8 ,

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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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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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medical recipe in an even later, eighteenth-century hand, + 2 paper flyleaves. Codex Paper 210 140 mm 1 5 , ff. 1r-5v, 1 possibly a singleton; 2 12 , ff. 6r-16v, wants 12, signatures i-vi; 3 12 wants all -

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poet. 141 SC 14635 s. xv 1 English Scribal dialect: Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 365 295, LP 237 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 233). A fifteenth-century manuscript of the second quarter of the fifteenth century (Seymour 1997, p.

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mm 1 6 , 2 6 + 1 leaf after 6; 3-5 12 ; 6 10 (wants 1-3); 7-8 12 ; 9-11 8 ; 12 8 (wants 1, 2); 13 8 (wants 8); 14 8 ; 15 6 (wants 1,

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Ashmole 41 SC 6921 s. xv 1 English Part I: Scribal dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 392 323, LP 243 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 237). Part II: Not analysed. A composite manuscript that was originally two although

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have holes, corners seem to have been gnawed. 300 mm 205 mm iii + 1-2 8 , 3 6 + 1, 4 8 , 5 10 , 6 4 , 7 2 , 8-10 8 , 11 6 , 12

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SC 21715 s. xv in English Scribe 1, ff. 1r-96v: Scribal dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 432 243, LP 8050 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 245). Scribe 2, ff. 97r-129v: Scribal Dialect: Oxfordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid

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Weobley, all in West Herefordshire. Fifteenth-century addition. Codex Parchment 250 160 mm 1 10 ; 2-8 12 ; 9 2 ; 10-13 12 ; 15 11 (wants 1); 16-17 10 ; 18 14 ; 19 12 ; 20 10 ;

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Harley 201 ?s. vix English Scribe 1 - Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 363 258, LP 7500 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 199). Scribe 2 - Scribal dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Grid Reference: 384 219, LP 7080 (McIntosh,

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Pricking: none visible. Writing space of 150 x 105 mm. Single columns with 26-27 (scribe 1) and 25-30 (scribe 2) lines. Ruling in drypoint. Scribe 1 - ff. 1r-171r: writing in a professional Anglicana Formata script of the early fifteenth

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, ff. 99r-108v paper (later inclusion); 10 9 (wants first leaf of quire) paper (later inclusion); 11 3 1 bifolia plus 1, ff. 118r-120v; 12 4 , ff. 121r-124v; 13 12 , ff. 125r-136v, catchword; 14 12 , ff. 137r-148v,