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1900. The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity Cambridge: A Descriptive Catalogue , 3 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary ,

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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

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aros'. 'þou woll fursake me þrien are þe coc him crowe'. English Brown 1932, pp. 38-39 ; Wright 1841, vol. 1, p. 144. ff. 34v-35r Sermon 'Belial is'. A sermon sometimes attributed to Stephen Langton. See London, British Library, MS

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a. 1 SC 3928-42 Vernon s. xiv ex English French Latin Scribe 1: Scribal dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 378 262, LP 7670 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). Serjeantson places the scribe of the Index (Scribe 1)

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sprays from clusters at corners going along top and bottom margin, top margin straight, bottom margin shorter and curled. Item 1: f. 27v - historiated initial O with picture of the Virgin? in blue cloak and orange robe with arms

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Grid Reference: 372 244, LP 7440 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A manuscript in two parts. Part 1 is a fifteenth-century copy of a Latin chronicle of the Kings of England 900-1445 and Part 2 is a collection

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generosus & morabatur in Schiptoun qui predictus willielmus fecit librum qui vocatur Perys ploughman' (see facsimile in Kane 1965, plate 1, facing p. 32). The last folio of this manuscript carries a fragment of the French prose Lancelot but is

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of St. Justina (IMEV 2953 ) English ff. 138r-139v South English Legendary: Legend of St. Michael (IMEV 3029 ) Part 1. English Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 299-322. f. 139v South English Legendary: Life of St. Jerome (IMEV 2922 ) English

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Scribal Scribe 1 is the same as Scribe 1 of Holkham Hall, Wells, Norfolk, Library of the Earl of Leicester, MS 668 (Lewis and McIntosh, 1982, pp. 54-5, 121-2) and Doyle notes that this scribe was also Scribe 1 of

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4), i paper flyleaf with half an older flyleaf stuck over; 1 8 lacks 1-2, 8, 2 6 lacks 1, 3 12 lacks 1-2, 9-12, 4 ?6 lacks 1, 3-5, 5 12 lacks 3 and 9, 6 12 lacks 1-2,

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30v - bottom margin c. 1 cm wide border of foliate design in scribal ink. Not medieval. Size: 230 x 150 mm. iii (modern paper flyleaves) + 90 + iii (modern paper flyleaves). Ff. 1, 2, 88, 89, 90 are

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R. 7/ T. James 160 s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 352 225, LP 7300 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A copy of the C-text of Piers Plowman from the first half of

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University Library Garrett 138 Yates-Thompson s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 345 242, LP 7380 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A manuscript of the Prick of Conscience of the first half of the

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Related Manuscripts and other documents Scribal London, British Library, MS Additional 1 0301 is in the same hand but in Wiltshire dialect (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 100). Fletcher, A. J. 1987. ‘ John Mirk and the

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6 8 (the first leaf, + a leaf in the fourth position, now f.1; the leaves are ff. 4, 2, 1, 16-20; none of them now conjunct), 7 8 (ff. 21-28), 8 8 (ff. 29-36), quire 9 missing (probably this

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239). Folios 144v-147r have a scribal dialect of Dorset, Grid: 386 122, LP 5340 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 100). A fifteenth-century manuscript including Hilton's Treatise of a Contemplative Life , a chapter from pseudo-Bonaventura's Meditationes Vitae

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875 s. xv in English Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-8v): Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 412 273, LP 4680 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). Scribe 2 (ff. 9r-22v): Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 433 252,

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SC 1806 s. xv in English Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-7r): Scribal Dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 382 259, LP 7710 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). Scribe 2 (ff. 9r-122r): Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 450

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Parchment 228 152 mm 1 6 , ff. 1r-12v; 2 6 , ff. 13r-24v, catchword; 3 6 , ff. 25r-36v, catchword; 4 6 , ff. 37r-48v, catchword; 5 6 , ff. 49r-60v, catchword; 6 6 + 1 singleton, ff. 61r-71v;

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lines in Items 1, 2 and 4, 55-65 lines in Item 5, 30 lines in Item 6. Double columns and 61 lines in Item 3. Ruled in lead but now no longer visible or very faint. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-94r;