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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
a. 1 SC 3928-42 Vernon s. xiv ex English French Latin Scribe 1: Scribal dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 378 262, LP 7670 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). Serjeantson places the scribe of the Index (Scribe 1)
sprays from clusters at corners going along top and bottom margin, top margin straight, bottom margin shorter and curled. Item 1: f. 27v - historiated initial O with picture of the Virgin? in blue cloak and orange robe with arms
generosus & morabatur in Schiptoun qui predictus willielmus fecit librum qui vocatur Perys ploughman' (see facsimile in Kane 1965, plate 1, facing p. 32). The last folio of this manuscript carries a fragment of the French prose Lancelot but is
Craster, H. H. 1922. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford , vol. 2, part 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 48. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late
College 13 s. xv 2 English Latin Scribe 1 (beginning to f. 169v, ff. 272r-287v): Scribal Dialect: Derbyshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference 415 362, LP 581 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, vol. 1, p. 154). Scribe 2 (ff. 170r-271v, 288r to
the same hand on ff. 69r-73v is a table of contents in Latin. Codex Parchment 270 190 mm Quires remounted. 1 12 , ff. 1-12v, catchword; 2 12 , ff. 13r-24v, catchword; 3 10 , ff. 25r-34v, catchword; 4 2
whiche mi defaute amende kan'. Southern recension of the text. Codex Parchment 265 160 mm 1 12 ; 2 12 (wants 12), 3 12 (wants 1, 9); 4 12 (wants 5-8), 5-8 12 . Catchwords: ff. 12v; 36v; 48v; 60v;
Six scribes (of many) with a scribal dialect located to Warwickshire/Staffordshire. Scribe 1 (ff. 4r-21r) - Scribal Dialect: Suffolk, 'Language of Lavenham' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 116). Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 592 254, LP 8320. Suffolk.
er. 280 195 mm 1 8 , ff. 3r-10v; 2 4 , ff. 11r-18v; 3 11 , 6 added, ff. 19r-29v; 4 4 , ff. 30r-37v; 5 8 , ff. 38r-46v; 6 8 , wants 1, ff. 47r-53v, catchwords; 7
- c. 23/24. Ruling not visible. Scribe 1 (ff. 2r-6r) writing in a small cursive hand. Characteristics: double compartment g ; 2-shaped r ; B-shaped w ; double compartment a . Body height: 1 mm. Scribe 2 (ff. 7r-86r) writing
4733 s. xv med English Scribe 1: Scribal dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 391 277, LP 7600 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 249). Scribe 2: Scribal dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 410 262, LP 4681 (McIntosh, Samuels
325 210 mm 1 4 , 2-16 8 , 17 7 , 18 2 , 19-20 12 , 21 8 , 22 12 , 23 10 , 24 12 , rest doubtful. Layout varies eg. Item 1: double columns, no
edited from MS. Rawl. B 171 , 2 vols, EETS, os, 131, London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Tr ü bner, 1 Brie, F. W. D., ed, 1908. The Brut or The Chronicles of England , edited from MS. Rawl. B
parchment flyleaves at the beginning with ii and iii foliated as 1 and 2, iv and v are not foliated and the text starts on f. 3r (previously f. 1). Unknown On f. 1v is written ' Robert Sandis est
the same as London, British Library, MS Additional 37787, north Worcestershire (404 268). A manuscript in two distinct parts. Part 1 is an early thirteenth-century copy of Sawles Warde and the Katherine Group whilst part 2 is an early fifteenth-century
MS. 19.2.1 Auchinleck s. xiv med English French Scribe 1: Scribal Dialect: London/Middlesex border. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 532 190, LP 6510. Scribe 2: Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 412 240, LP 6940. Scribe 3 (ff. 85r-99v): Scribal
leaves. Single, double, and triple columns with 47-51 lines (Scribe 1); 36-33 lines (Scribe 2); 60 lines (Scribe 3). Columns and margins usually marked (See Ker 1965, p. xvii). Scribe 1 - Textura, ff. 1-49. Scribe 2 - Anglicana, sometimes
edited from MS. Rawl. B 171 , 2 vols, EETS, os, 131, London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Tr ü bner, 1. Furnivall, F. J., ed, 1858. Early English Meals and Manners , EETS, os, 32, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr
of which are West Midlands manuscripts. Blake, N. and Robinson, P., ed, 1993. The Canterbury Tales Project: Occasional Papers , 1, Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications, p. 95. Bowers, J. M., ed, 1992. The Canterbury Tales : fifteenth century
Library, MS Additional 37787 in Baugh 1956, pp. 107-121. Conlee 1991, pp. 18-49. Codex Parchment 225 155 mm iv + [1, 2 - now lost ] ; 3-5 8 ; 6 4 (wants 4); 7-13 8 ; 14 8 (wants