• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Craster, H. H. 1922. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford , vol. 2, part 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 51. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

University Library Osborn a 13 s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 239). A manuscript of the Prick of Conscience written by one scribe in the first half

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

schelde fro þe fendes fere amen'. English Furnivall 1866, pp. 251-256. Edden 1990, p. 16. Codex Parchment 145 95 mm 1 10 , ff. 2r-11v, catchword; 2 8+1 , ff. 12r-20v, catchword; 3 8 , ff. 21r-28v, catchword; 4 8

• 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

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