• Interlaced initial 'D'(isciplina) at the beginning of Isidore, 'Etymologies'., Etymologies (index Etymologiae), divided into 20 books, with two letters of correspondence between Isidore and Braulio (f. 1), imperfect

or charters (see Lowe 1964; Codices Latini Antiquiores, Supplement, 1971; Ganz 2007).Contemporary and 10th-century marginal and interlinear glosses, partly in Old Breton (see Fleuriot 1979; Lambert 1999).Musical notation: added neumes, northern France, late 10th century (f. 20v); 11th century (f.

• Marginal pen drawing of the head of a bearded man., Etymologies (index Etymologiae), divided into 20 books, with two letters of correspondence between Isidore and Braulio (f. 1), imperfect

or charters (see Lowe 1964; Codices Latini Antiquiores, Supplement, 1971; Ganz 2007).Contemporary and 10th-century marginal and interlinear glosses, partly in Old Breton (see Fleuriot 1979; Lambert 1999).Musical notation: added neumes, northern France, late 10th century (f. 20v); 11th century (f.

• Interlaced initial 'D'(yalectica) at the beginning of the chapter on Logic in Book II of Isidore, 'Etymologies'., Etymologies (index Etymologiae), divided into 20 books, with two letters of correspondence between Isidore and Braulio (f. 1), imperfect

or charters (see Lowe 1964; Codices Latini Antiquiores, Supplement, 1971; Ganz 2007).Contemporary and 10th-century marginal and interlinear glosses, partly in Old Breton (see Fleuriot 1979; Lambert 1999).Musical notation: added neumes, northern France, late 10th century (f. 20v); 11th century (f.

• Detail of a miniature of the author reading., Li Livres dou tresor

Livres dou tresor The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, (f. 12v).Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. The author

• Miniature of John the Evangelist in Patmos, with a full border and a foliate initial 'S'(aint), at the beginning of the life of John., Assumption of the Virgin and saints' Lives

and administrator: his arms (f. 1).?Shelfmark of a very large number in brown ink (Carley's 'Old Large Number') '62' (f. i).The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 939' (f. 1), included in the inventory of

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

old man vilenye But he trespas othir in worde or dede In holy writ ye may your seluen rede Ageyns an old man whoor vpon his heed Ye shul aryse wherfore I yeue yow reed Ne doth to an

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

o thyng warne I yow , my freendes deere I wol noon old wyf han , in no manere She shal nat passe , .xx. yeer certeyn Old fissh , and yong flessh , wol I haue feyn Bet is

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

Bet is Ï he a pyk þan a pykrelle Old fleissh and ȝong fleissh þat wolde I han ful fayn Sche schal nouȝt passe xvj ȝer certayn I wol non old wyf haue in no manere , But oþing warne

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

is no curteysye To spekyn to an old man vilanye But he trespace in word or ellis in dede In holy wryt ye may youre seluyn weel reede Ne doth vn to an old man noon harm now Na more

• The Norman Blake Editions of The Canterbury Tales

allien But oo þing warne I ȝow my frendes deere I wil noon old wyf haue in no manere Sche schal not passe sixtene ȝer certayn Old fleisch and ȝong fleisch þat wold I haue ful fayn Bet is quod

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

in alphabetical order. 169 chapters. Table of contents and treatise appear to be in separate hands. English Brodin 1950. ff. 62v-64r Medical Recipes English Codex Paper. 210 c. 145mm Each page remounted. Unable to ascertain. Pricking: none. Writing space of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

199r-v South English Legendary: Life of St. Edmund the King(IMEV 2887 ) 'De sancto edmundo rege & martire'. 'Seynt edmunde the martyr was kyng of a parte of englond'. Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 296-299. ff. 199v-201r South English Legendary: Life

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

a crysten man moo. Deo gracias'. English Erbe 1905. ff. 191v-194r Explanation of the Apostle's Creed in English 'The fyrst is y beleve in god almyȝty'. 'kepe well ten and fle from sevyn'. English Codex Parchment 200 140 mm 1

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

scribes although the texts written by Scribe 1 are in sixteen distinct varieties of Middle English. In total there are nineteen varieties of Middle English in the manuscript, as discerned by McIntosh and Wakelin (1982, p. 447). A detailed description

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Harley 2417 s. xv 1 English Scribal dialect: North West Worcestershire. Earlier, incorrectly analysed as Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 371 273, LP 702 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 249). A copy of Mirk's Festial from the first half