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Library Harley 2376 s. xv 1 English Scribal dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 362 225, LP 7320 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A manuscript containing the C-text of Piers Plowman dated to the first half of the

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Writing space of 270 x 195 mm. Single col umns with 37 lines. Frame and lines ruled in drypoint. Scribe 1 (ff. 1-169r): regular Anglicana Formata, influenced occasionally by Bastard Anglicana, with minums generally traced continuously, but occasionally reverts to

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Cotton Claudius A.ii s. xv 1 English Scribe of f. 3v - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped. Scribe of ff. 4r-30v - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped. Scribe of ff. 40r-128r -

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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