• Flourished initial 'I'(n), at the beginning of Ovid's Metamorphoses., Metamorphoses

Flourished initial 'I'(n), at the beginning of Ovid's Metamorphoses. 1 large initial in red, with reserved designs, and pen-flourishing in brown with yellow wash (f. 1). Smaller initials and paraph marks in plain red. Metamorphoses Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660,

• null, Aratus, etc. (ff. 1-64v); Poeticon Astronomicon (ff. 65-125v)

39, 40v, 41, 41v, 42v, 43v, 47, 55). 1 large white vine initial with three-sided white vine borders including a bird and putti supporting heraldic arms, in colours and gold (f. 1).1 large white vine initial with a partial

• null, Aratus, etc. (ff. 1-64v); Poeticon Astronomicon (ff. 65-125v)

39, 40v, 41, 41v, 42v, 43v, 47, 55). 1 large white vine initial with three-sided white vine borders including a bird and putti supporting heraldic arms, in colours and gold (f. 1).1 large white vine initial with a partial

• null, Aratus, etc. (ff. 1-64v); Poeticon Astronomicon (ff. 65-125v)

39, 40v, 41, 41v, 42v, 43v, 47, 55). 1 large white vine initial with three-sided white vine borders including a bird and putti supporting heraldic arms, in colours and gold (f. 1).1 large white vine initial with a partial

• null, Aratus, etc. (ff. 1-64v); Poeticon Astronomicon (ff. 65-125v)

39, 40v, 41, 41v, 42v, 43v, 47, 55). 1 large white vine initial with three-sided white vine borders including a bird and putti supporting heraldic arms, in colours and gold (f. 1).1 large white vine initial with a partial

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

And byg&#563;neth his tale 76/1</ctp>.<resp>LC</resp> Whilom þer was dwellyng at Oxenford A riche gnof þat gestes heeld to boorde And of his craft he was a Carpenter Wiþ him þer was dwellyng a pore scoler Had lerned art but

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

is evident on folio 39r. The capital has been decorated using a shyning blue.<resp>ODR</resp></notetxt></note><note><notetxt><ctp>1</ctp>There is a small pricking next L 1 of the prologue, which appears under the illumination and is visible from the verso of 39v.<resp>ODR</resp></notetxt></note> In al the

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

Incipit fabula Armigeri<note><notetxt><ctp>1</ctp>The ink in this folio is brown and becomes darker brown afterwards. NB an extra watermarked leafs was used here.<resp>ODR</resp></notetxt></note> At Sarray , in the lond of Tartarye There dwelled a kyng , that werred Russye Thorugh

• 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

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England London British Library Arundel 272 s. xv English Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-32v) - scribal dialect: Derbyshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 105). Scribe 2 (ff. 33r-35v) - Scribal dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 406

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

) 'he þat dyeth in'. Unreadable English Erbe 1905. Codex Parchment c. 200 135 mm 1 10 wanting 1 (this stub is foliated as 1), ff. 2-9v, catchword; 2 8 , ff. 10r-17v, catchword; 3 8 , ff. 18r-26v, catchword;

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Digby , vol. 1, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, p. 31, no. 8. Horstmann, C., ed, 1892. The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript , 2 vols, EETS, os, 98, London: Kegan Paul & Tr ü bner, 1. McIntosh, A., Samuels,