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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
33 lines ruled in pencil. Several different hands writing in small and compact Secretary scripts influenced by Anglicana. Capitals in blue with red penwork. Some eleborate ascenders in brown ink (e.g. ff. 135-136). Medieval binding. Size: 230 x 150 mm.
'Anno domini MCCCCxx' (1420). Twenty full bar borders in blue and violet, some with floral clusters (for a detailed description see Hanna 2002, p. 128-129). Three to five-line champ initials. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Rubrics and marginalia
for the first one, 'Advent Sonday' (brown), rubrication throughout. Red paraphs throughout. F. 1r: initial G of 'Go de' - blue with red flourishing. Other first letters are red. Nota bene: hand - ff. 60r, 97v. Not medieval. Size: 230
printed in Brown 1927, fr ontispiece. Purple, blue and gold border with miniature of St. Andrew, in blue, bound to a saltire cross, on a gold ground in the initial, p. 1. Four-line blue initials with red penwork at the
was written by one scribe, apart from some lines on f. 20r, who wrote in an 'unpractised Anglicana hand'. Large blue initial with red penwork extending along the left margin and top of the leaf on f. 3r, St. Michael.
Scribe 2: ff. 200v-203v - a roughly contemporary Anglicana book hand. Paragraph marks, alternately red and blue in the South English Legendary . Two-line blue initials with red pen- work flourishes in the South English Legendary . First letter of
fairly large elongated leaves - orange, blue, pink (not rose), dark pink/red/burgundy, white circles. Border Artist 2: ff. 5r, 7r-8r, 62r-93v, 98v-118r, 124r, 125v, 126r, 128v, 129r, 135r-143r, 163v. Characteristics: gold bar and blue bar with initial decorated with serrated
red and placed within a ruled column by scribes 1, 3 and 5 but not by scribes 2 and 4. Blue initials with red penwork flourishing, all by the same artist, eg. ff. 140 vb, 324r-v. Not medieval. A second
Formata, ff. 52v. In red: paraphs, two-line red initials, letters frequently tinted, extended ascenders on top line. One five-line initial, blue and red, f. 1r. Spaces for five-line initials: ff. 23r, 33v, 39v, 43v, 47v. Spaces for two-line initials: ff.
49). Probably an Augustinian canon at Haughmond Abbey. In red: scribal numbering; titles; colophons; brackets; paraphs. Two-line red initials. Three-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Drawing of the Holy Face on the Vernicle. Nine lines deep over one column
angels either side. Christ's halo in bright orange and blue. Angels with blue wings and rose collars. Bar-frame of miniature in rose with pairs of blue and rose single leaves and blue balls. Monks in white habits. Text: 'O veronicle
Three-line blue initials with red penwork extending into border. Red and blue paraphs. Item 4: four/five-line initial A in blue as before. Red and blue paraphs. Two-line blue initials with red penwork. Item 5: fourteen-line initial I in blue with
squiggles. Two-line blue initials with extending red penwork decorate the manuscript until f. 70v where there is also a change of ink but not a change of scribe. Later texts: eg. f. 71r three-line blue initial and blue paraphs, f.
blue and red initial with red pen-work decoration around the letter giving rise to a full border in blue and red. Red and blue paraphs. Two-line blue initials with red penwork extensions. Text 2 - title in red. Two-line
red preceded by blue paraph marks. Alternately blue on red and red on b lue. Recto folios - oxidised red paraphs suggesting the use of a different base. One-line blue initials with red penwork and red with blue before stanzas.
s in initial position. Red rubrics underlining, paraphs. Alternate red and blue one-line blue initials for item 4.1. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing into margins. Six-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. As above. Foliated consecutively with Part
begins with a five-line capital B in red and blue with fine line penwork decorating the infill, red, and around the letter, red and violet. Red paraphs. Red underlining. Three-line blue initials with fine red penwork for divisions. Not medieval.
rise to a three-sided bar-frame border. At the top a cluster of rose and blue leaves gives way to a straight spray constructed of a blue vine terminating in a rose leaf. The vine is decorated with a white central
blue and rose with white circles and white lines. The gold bar and rose vine move down from the bottom of the initial and terminate at the bottom of the page. The bar tapers onto a triangular ground of
Item 2: red paraphs, two-line blue initials with red penwork; eight-line red initials with mauve penwork (faded), three-line red initials with mauve penwork; initial letter A red and blue nine-line, with red patterned infill and blue dots; red incipits. Item