• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

compartment g ; long s in medial position; 2-shaped r ; B-shaped w . Body height: 2mm. Decoration of item 1, Speculum Christiani , ff. 4r-70v: title in red; red underlining, some initials tinted red, names underlined in red, blue,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Royal 12 C.xii s. xiv 1 English French Latin Scribal dialect: Herefordshire, Ludlow (Zettle 1935; Revard 2000, p. 21). Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: Not mapped and only ff. 62-68 analysed (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 200). An early fourteenth-century

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

lines) and lines in drypoint. One scribe writing in a small Anglicana script in black ink. Body height 1-2mm. Item 1: title in black with blue paraph before the M . Five-line blue initial M with red penwork extending along

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Library Egerton 1993 s. xiv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 390 232, LP 7130 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 196). An early to mid fourteenth-century copy of the South English Legendary written by one scribe

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

of St. Justina (IMEV 2953 ) English ff. 138r-139v South English Legendary: Legend of St. Michael (IMEV 3029 ) Part 1. English Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 299-322. f. 139v South English Legendary: Life of St. Jerome (IMEV 2922 ) English