• 'Champ' initial (added later) and smaller initials with pen-flourishing., Bible historiale

'Champ' initial (added later) and smaller initials with pen-flourishing. Large initials in gold and colours, some painted over earlier initials (ff. 2, 9, 10, 40v, 44, 48, 54v, 56v, 58, 87, 118). The flourishing includes a hybrid creature (f.

• Detail of an illuminated initial 'Q'(uoniam) with the royal arms of England, at the beginning of the text., Tractatulus de regimine seu caritate principum

Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1661, Royal Appendix 86, f. 28.Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. Royal arms of England Stephen Baron London England, S. E. (London?)

• Puzzle initial 'C'(um) with pen-flourished decoration at the beginning of the statutes for Westminster., A collection of English statutes and laws to the reign of Richard II, including statutes for Westminster, Exeter and Winchester (ff. 1-29), and a chancery register (ff. 30-54)

nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. Puzzle initial London England, S. (London ?)

• Initial words decorated with pen-flourishing in brown ink, at a ~Hoshanah~ (poetical prayer) for ~Hoshanah Rabbah~ (the seventh day of Sukkot; for the poem, see Davidson vol. 1, no. 1857)., Prayer book with Haggadah (ff. 71-88) and ~Pirqei Avot~ (ff. 88v-115), Ashkenazi rite

Gaster' (f. 161v); no. 582 in his collection [Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London(London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996]; purchased by the British Museum from him in 1925 together with

• Text page of manumissions in Latin., Bodmin Gospels (St Petroc Gospels); records of grants of manumission in Old English and Latin added on blank leaves and in margins (ff. 1, 8, 13, 141)

outline for a Christ in Majesty composition, as in the Landevennec gospels (see Wormald 1977).X-rays of both boards are in London, British Library Manuscript Facsimile 800. Decorated canon tables in brown and red (ff. 12v-13). A frame with five roundels,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England London British Library Cotton Vitellius D.iii s. xiii ex English French Latin Scribal dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 399 233, LP 7120 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A late thirteenth-century manuscript (Guddat-Figge suggests a date of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

so closely related, they effectively constitute only a single witness to the authorial text', Cartlidge, p. xl. Rela ted to London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A. ix. They share the same copytext according to Cartlidge (2001, p. xl), who

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

New York and London: Modern Language Association of America. Blom-Smith, E. M. 1992. ‘ The Lyf of Oure Lord and the Virgyn Mary edited from MS Trinity College Cambridge B.15.32 and MS Bodley 578 ’ , diss. London. Holmstedt, G.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

from Llanthony Priory ’ , Speculum , 3, 587-595. Brown. C. ed., 1932. English Lyrics of the Thirteenth Century , London: Oxford University Press, pp. xxvii, 114-19, 212. Coxe, H. O. 1852. Catalogus Codicum MSS. qui in Collegiis Aulisque Oxoniensibus

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

os, 13, London: Tr ü bner & Co. Conlee, J. W, ed. 1991. Middle English Debate Poetry: A Critical Anthology , East Lansing: Colleagues Press Davies, R. T., ed, 1963. Medieval English Lyrics: a critical anthology , London: Faber. Dean,