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Weobley, all in West Herefordshire. Fifteenth-century addition. Codex Parchment 250 160 mm 1 10 ; 2-8 12 ; 9 2 ; 10-13 12 ; 15 11 (wants 1); 16-17 10 ; 18 14 ; 19 12 ; 20 10 ;

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

visible. Writing space of 200 x 120 mm. Single columns with 30-38 lines. Frame and lines ruled in drypoint. Text 1 by one scribe writing in an Anglicana script with Secretary influences in a now faded brown ink. Hand begins

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Pricking: none visible. Writing space of 150 x 105 mm. Single columns with 26-27 (scribe 1) and 25-30 (scribe 2) lines. Ruling in drypoint. Scribe 1 - ff. 1r-171r: writing in a professional Anglicana Formata script of the early fifteenth

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, ff. 99r-108v paper (later inclusion); 10 9 (wants first leaf of quire) paper (later inclusion); 11 3 1 bifolia plus 1, ff. 118r-120v; 12 4 , ff. 121r-124v; 13 12 , ff. 125r-136v, catchword; 14 12 , ff. 137r-148v,

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Latin f. 75r-v Papers and accounts relating to the navigation of the river Wye 1600-1663. Codex Parchment 200 133 mm 1 8 , ff. 1r-8v; 2 8 , ff. 9r-17v; 3 8 , ff. 18r-25v, catchword; 4 8 , ff.

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Writing space: 160 x 90 mm. Single columns with 24 lines. Ruling: traces of brown crayon for the frame. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-32r), writing in black ink in a neat Anglicana Formata hand. Characteristics: ascenders on b and l at

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Ripon Cathedral xiii. A. 35 s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped but McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin state 'language of N Staffs' (1986, p. 239). All that remains of this manuscript is a double

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript , 2 vols, EETS, os, 98, London: Kegan Paul & Tr ü bner, 1. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary ,

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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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1729 ) 'Ihesu lord wel come ye be'. 'Houfull be my last bred. Fiat. Amen'. Codex Parchment 150 85 mm 1 6 (includes ff. viii-ix), 2-6 16 , 7 12 , 8 16 , 9 6 (3 and 5 canc.),

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of f. 174r-v: language similar to main hand and 'belongs probably to N Salop' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 102). A mid fifteenth-century copy of the Stanzaic Life of Christ (Foster 1926, p. xi); Dialogue between a

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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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bryngeth ous to minde'. 'To hoeuene hoe make ous stye at oure endeday. Amen'. English Codex Parchment 230 170mm 1 14 (1 and 14 are added leaves), ff. 1r-13v; 2 12 , ff. 14r-25v; 3 12 , ff. 26r-37v; 4

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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

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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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eights (quires 6 and 15 are twelves). Collation as it survives today: ii + 1 8 , ff. 3r-10v; 2 8 , ff. 11r-17v (wants 1 before f. 17r); 3 8 (wants first five leaves), ff. 18r-20v; 4 8 ,

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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