• London, British Library MS Additional 29250 / Astrolabe

Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Additional 29250 Title: Astrolabe Author: Chaucer Contents: Astrolabe as first item followed by two printed incunables, 'Ephemerides siue Almanach perpetuus' and 'Amicus Medicorum Magistri Joannis Ganiueti: cum opusculo quod Celi enarrant propter

• London, British Library MS Egerton 2622 / Astrolabe

Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Egerton 2622 Title: Astrolabe Author: Chaucer Contents: Astrolabe Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: Unknown Dialect: LP 714; County: Derbys Material: Parchment No of Folios: 0-71v Pagination: Modern pencil. NB Astrolabe

• London, British Library MS Harley 2280 / Troilus and Criseyde

Dialect: Standardised; some Northern (poss. Lincs) features Material: Parchment No of Folios: 3 modern flyleaves + i + 98 + 1 (Victorian flyleaf?) + 4 modern flyleaves Pagination: Modern pencil top right corner. Quiring: 8 Signatures: None visible very heavily

• London, British Library MS Harley 4912 / Troilus and Criseyde

Manuscript Description London, British Library MS Harley 4912 Title: Troilus and Criseyde Author: Chaucer Contents: Troilus and Criseyde Language: English Date Range: 1450-1475 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 2 modern flyleaves + 175 + i

• London, British Library MS Harley 2280 / Unknown

word 'Remembrynge'. s Usage: 'shame'; this scribe uses every form of 's'. More variants to be seen in Wild Letter 1. Kidney-shaped 's' is the initial letter here and is the predominant type for initial 's', though not used exclusively.

• London, British Library MS Additional 27944 / Hand B

compartment 'a'. Usage: 'pater'; Usage: 'schamfast'; the scribe has a third lower case 'a' graph. It is not merely version 1 gone wrong, it is a form of 'a' which follows the pattern used by some scribes as an upper

• Scotland, Glasgow, University Library, MS Hunter 197 (U.1.1) / Geoffrey Spirling

'Whiche'; 'W' in upper case position at the beginning of a line. The scribe also uses the 'w' in version 1 in upper case positions at the beginnings of lines. y Usage: 'ymage'; the tail of 'y' is more often

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 40 (SC 6920) / Unknown

for the upper case graph. Usage: 'vowtrie'; although most of the scribe's 'w' graphs conform more or less to version 1, there is a single example of looped 'w' as seen here. Usage: 'was'; a graph on the top line

• England, Petworth, The National Trust MS 7 / Hand 1

Profile Hand 1 Current Manuscript: England, Petworth, The National Trust MS 7 Folios: 1r-8v Sampled Folios: 3v, 5v, 7v, 8r, 8v Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of <a href=http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk class=text-link>The National Trust</a> a Usage: 'as'; the scribe has both single

• Cambridge, University Library MS Dd. 3. 53 Part 2 / Astrolabe scribe

the scribe frequently curves the tail of 'h' to the right rather than tucking the stroke under as in version 1. Usage: 'cometh'; in the combination 'th' at the end of a word, the 'h' is frequently crossed. r Usage:

• London, British Library MS Royal 17 D.XVIII / Hoccleve

stanzas. This one shows the simple form. Usage: Serrated pen-work decoration is more usual than the simple shape in version 1. Usage: A paraph in a different style for a gloss in the right margin of f70r. Usage: A paraph

• Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys 2101 / Unknown

'gref'; as the copying progressed, the scribe develops a slanting graph which is basically the same shape as in version 1 but seems to be leaning to the right. The lower lobe is displaced to the left. Usage: 'kyng'; 'g'

• Cambridge, St John's College I. 22 (223) / Unknown

of the left and middle limb are curled over. Usage: 'Whan'; the upper case graph is a larger version of 1. y Usage: 'troubly'; 'y' is generally formed in the same way. Usage: 'yn'; the tail of 'y' may be

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Hh.4.12 / Hand 1

Profile Hand 1 Current Manuscript: Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Hh.4.12 Identification: At present, the wrong images have been attached to this hand. We apologise for this error and are attempting to rectify the situation. Folios: 1-27r, 37-44v, 49-102v (end)

• London, British Library MS Royal 17 D.XIX / Unknown

which here appears triangular, with looped top. Usage: 'sad'; not all the scribe's 'd's are as angualr as in version 1. Usage: 'godde'; Usage: 'Do'; upper case 'D' with 2-shaped element preceding. g Usage: 'gracious'; the very angular double compartment

• England, London, British Library MS Harley 614 / Unknown

to time for no particular reason. Usage: 'naþelees'; the scribe has various ways of writing single compartment 'a'. In version 1 the right down-stroke is straight. In this version there is a small angled stroke at the head which then

• London, Society of Antiquaries MS 134 / Confessio Amantis, Regiment of Princes

Manuscript Description London, Society of Antiquaries MS 134 Title: Confessio Amantis, Regiment of Princes Author: Gower, Hoccleve, Lydgate and Walton Contents: Lydgate's Life of Our Lady, begins imperfectly Book II, line 222 (ff1-30); 'Pees maketh plente' as colophon

• Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 735 / Hoccleve, Series, Lydgate, Dance of Death,Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes

bifolia of parchment, 5 bifolia of paper in each No of Folios: 2 original parchment flyleaves + 134 leaves + 1 heavy parchment flyleaf and stub of another Pagination: Modern arabic ink foliation in upper outer corners recto, turns to

• London, British Library MS Royal 17 D.VI / Regiment of Princes

ff120v-137; Tale of Jonathas (IMEV 4072), ff138v-148v Language: English Date Range: 1400-1450 Scribal Hands: Unknown Material: Parchment No of Folios: 1 marbled and 3 thick paper flyleaves + 1-3 which (flyleaves) + 4-149v + f150 + 3 heavy paper and

• Scotland, Glasgow, Glasgow University Library MS Hunter 7 (S.1.7) / Confessio Amantis

flyleaves match pastedown + 2 parchment flyleaves at least as old as 16th century + textblock of 179 leaves + 1 newish paper flyleaf matches pastedown. Pagination: Modern ink foliation in upper right corner, to right of top line of