• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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 -

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

mm 1 6 , 2 6 + 1 leaf after 6; 3-5 12 ; 6 10 (wants 1-3); 7-8 12 ; 9-11 8 ; 12 8 (wants 1, 2); 13 8 (wants 8); 14 8 ; 15 6 (wants 1,

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139-40. Language of Suffolk or SE Norfolk (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 146). Scribe of ff. 141r-208r, Worcestershire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 146). A manuscript of three independent sections, the first containing Walter

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Ashmole 41 SC 6921 s. xv 1 English Part I: Scribal dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 392 323, LP 243 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 237). Part II: Not analysed. A composite manuscript that was originally two although

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England London British Library Additional 36983 Bedford MS s. xv 1 English Scribe 1 (ff. 1-118) - Scribal dialect: Bedfordshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 102). Scribe 5 (ff. 264r-279v) - Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas

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found in Part 1, and Thomas Carwardyn (f. 48v), who has written his name upside down on the last page, is probably connected with James Carwardin , whose name appears on the last page of part 1. Catalogued and encoded:

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

have holes, corners seem to have been gnawed. 300 mm 205 mm iii + 1-2 8 , 3 6 + 1, 4 8 , 5 10 , 6 4 , 7 2 , 8-10 8 , 11 6 , 12

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

4733 s. xv med English Scribe 1: Scribal dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 391 277, LP 7600 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 249). Scribe 2: Scribal dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 410 262, LP 4681 (McIntosh, Samuels

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SC 21715 s. xv in English Scribe 1, ff. 1r-96v: Scribal dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 432 243, LP 8050 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 245). Scribe 2, ff. 97r-129v: Scribal Dialect: Oxfordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

Harley 201 ?s. vix English Scribe 1 - Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 363 258, LP 7500 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 199). Scribe 2 - Scribal dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Grid Reference: 384 219, LP 7080 (McIntosh,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

love on rode can hynge'. 'Explicit expliceat ludere scriptor...þis boke is cald prik of conciense'. Codex Parchment 170-75 110-15 mm 1 8 , ff. 2r-9v, catchword; 2 8 , ff. 10r-17v, catchword; 3 8 , ff. 18r-25v; 4 8 ,

• 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

The Bodleian Library, Oxford, MSS Additional - Digby , vol. 1, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, p. 93, no. 413. Hanna, R. 1984. The Index of Middle English Prose. Handlist 1. Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Henry

• 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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

ff. 124r-135v, catchword; 15 12 + 1, ff. 136r-147v, catchword; 16 12 , ff. 149r-160v; 17 12 , ff. 161r-172v, catchword; f. 189v catchword; ff. 173r-191v too tightly bound to ascertain quiring. Item 1: Pricking not visible. Writing space of