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49v, 61v, 73v, 85v, 87v, 108v, 121v. Collation as it survives today, quite complicated in the first and last quires: 1 12 (wants 1-3, 10-11); 2 12 (wants 1-2, 8-7, 11-12); 3 12 ; 4-12 12 ; 13 12 (only

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Horstmann 1892, p. 1. ff. 112r-114v Assumption of the Virgin (IMEV 2165 ) 'þer to ne letteþ hem haue no myȝt'. 'ffor hit was in þe tumbe yleyde' English Lumby 1866, 1901. Codex Parchment 362 250 mm 1 6 ;

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C.5.7 s. xv in English Latin Scribe 1 - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 418 327, LP 215 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 237). Scribe 2 writes a Latin text. Scribe 3 - Scribal Dialect:

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ms: 'a 8 (wants 1,2); b-g 8 ; h 8 (wants 1, 8); i-m 8 ; n 8 (wants 4-8); o 2 (both gone): 95 ff. (out of 106); 1, 2, 57, 64, 100-6 lost)'. Pricking not visible. Writing space

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Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 238). Hand of f. 12v - Shropshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, 1986, vol. 1, p. 149). A fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Instructions for Parish Priests copied by John Holyns. ff. 1r-33v John

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of England , edited from MS. Rawl. B 171 , 2 vols, EETS, os, 13 1, London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Tr ü bner, 1. Harris, K. 1983. ‘ The Origins and Make-Up of Cambridge University Library MS. Ff.1.6 ’

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188v-190r, with the title 'Practica Edwardi [Nigri ] , Universitatis Oxonie qui fuit...cirurgicus'. Codex Paper and parchment. 250 195 mm 1 8 ; 2-7 12 ; 8 11 ; 9-10 10 . Pricking: none apparent. Writing space of 195 x

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English Scribe 1 (ff. 4r-115v), Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 350 218, LP 7260 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 199). Scribe 3 (ff. 150r-183v), Scribal Dialect: Derbyshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p.

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Library Additional 36791 s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 437 258, LP 8070 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 245). An early fifteenth-century copy (c. 1425) of the Speculum Sacerdotale : a series of addresses

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155 mm Collation: Rebinding obscures evidence; probably eights throughout. Item 1: Page layout - single columns, 30 lines, drypoint, pricking not visible. Writing space - 185 x 105 mm. Item 1: One or possibly two scribes writing in an Anglicana

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Codex Parchment. Poor quality - thick, uneven, frequently discoloured and patched, irregular sizes. 250 180 mm One leaf (f. 1),1 8 (ff. 3r-6v, 9r-12v), 2-3 8 (ff. 13r-28v), 4-6 6 (ff. 29r-46v), 7-9 8 (ff. 47r-70v), 10 6 (ff.

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English ff. 133r-139r Matthew 1 'Matheu seiþ in þe firste chapytyl on þis wyse'. ' & ne lede us not in temptacyon but delyuere us of yuel. Amen'. English Codex Parchment 180 130 mm Irregular quires: 1 8 , ff.

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and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library , San Marino, Ca.: Huntington Library, 1, pp. 237-239. Hanna, R. 1984. The Index of Middle English Prose. Handlist 1. Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Henry E. Huntington Library

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part 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 147. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: General Introduction, Index of Sources, Dot Maps , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aber deen University Press, 1. McIntosh,

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A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford , vol. 2, part 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, vol. 2, part 1, pp. 195-196. Onions, C. T. 1929. ‘ Middle English Ord and Ende ‘ , Modern Language

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300 220 mm. Twelve quires of eight. Ff. 1 and 2 originally flyleaves. First two folios blank. Quire 12 wants two leaves after f. 94. Catchwords for all quires except quire 1. Catchword in scroll with grotesque heads in profile

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twelve, apart from quire 1 10 , quire 11 8 , and quire 15 10 . Catchwords throughout apart from penultimate quire, 15. Catchword on f. 10v in scroll. Pricking not visible. Writing space of 1 60 x c. 80

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Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae: Pars Secunda Codices Latinos et Miscellaneos Laudianos Complectens , 2 fascicles, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1, fasc. 1, col. 428. Dennison, L., Driver, M. W., Eljenholm Nichols, A., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index

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medical recipe in an even later, eighteenth-century hand, + 2 paper flyleaves. Codex Paper 210 140 mm 1 5 , ff. 1r-5v, 1 possibly a singleton; 2 12 , ff. 6r-16v, wants 12, signatures i-vi; 3 12 wants all -

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poet. 141 SC 14635 s. xv 1 English Scribal dialect: Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 365 295, LP 237 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 233). A fifteenth-century manuscript of the second quarter of the fifteenth century (Seymour 1997, p.