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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
Bunt notes that the hand is a 'bold textura of the late r 14th century' (1985, p. 3). Two-line blue or blue and green initials with red penwork mark new sections of the poem. Not contemporary. Rebound in 1969. Letter
writing in an Anglicana hand. Scribe ?4, ff. 176r-178v. Two-line Lombardic capitals in blue with red penwork decoration to indicate the beginning of texts. Red and blue paraphs and red boxed rubrics (e.g., f. 18). Catchwords are often boxed and
Formata hand. Item 1: 'Cha mpe initials (gold on blue and purple with white tracery) ff. 1, 4, 93v, 126v, 128, 141' (Mynors and Thomson 1993, p. 69). Item 2: blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Late nineteenth-century binding. Parchment
script. Ff. 1v, 2r - two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Initial folio of Stanzaic Life - nine-line blue initial I with red penwork flourishing forming a two-sided border. F. 87v - two-line blue initial with red penwork flourishing
2 copied ff. 97r-129v in Textura. Two and three-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. F. 5v - nine-line blue initial I with red penwork flourishing. Initial page (f. 1r): thirteen-line blue initial þ with extensive fine red penwork flourishing
each line infilled with red. F. 1r: Large blue initial S of 'Stimulus' with elongated red penwork topped with a crown, outlined in blue and infilled with red. Two-line initials in blue with red flourished penwork - ff. 3v, 4r,
ff. 13r-20v: three-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing along margin (first letter of each Psalm). One-line red and blue Lombardic capitals. Red underlining. Text 3, ff. 21r-25v: three-line blue initial with red penwork begins text. Two-line blue initials with
two/three-line blue Lombardic initials with red penwork with red penwork infill. Frequent alternate red and blue paraphs. First initial of text: five-line Lombardic initial A with serrated pattern of blue and red with red penwork infill and red and blue
initials to start paragraphs, red paraphs, some initials tinted red. F. 100r - two-line blue initials, red Latin phrases, red rubric; f. 100v - six-line blue initial with rudimentary red penwork; f. 107v, 111r - six-line red initial þ ;
eleven-line blue initial I with red penwork flourishing in left margin and along top creating a two-sided border. Three-line blue initials with red pen work flourishing for other textual divisions (see Benson and Blanchfield 1997, p. 68, pl. 8). Blue
yogh; 2-shaped r . Body height: 2mm. Each item started by a two/three-line gold initial on a quartered rose and blue ground with white filigree infill with a spray growing from ascenders and descenders of black lines and carrying a
USA New Haven, Conn. Yale 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
position. Body height 1.5-2mm. Eleven-line blue initial I with red penwork extending along left and top margin begins first text. Other texts begin with three-line initials with fine red penwork e.g. f. 9r. Two-line blue initials with red penwork throughout.
ȝ . No punctuation. Body height: varies from 3 to 4 mm. Large, decorated initial opens text. Passus capitals in blue. Latin and French in red. Paraphs red/blue. Underlining in red. Not contemporary. ff. 94 A hand of the sixteenth
Elaborate five-line lombardic capital (f. 1r) in red, blue and gold with border running over the left side of the text and around 3/4 of the writing frame. Initials of passus in blue with pen ink flourishing in red. Rubrics,
England Oxford Bodleian Library Laud Misc. 601 SC 1491 s. xiv ex English Scribal Dialect: South East Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 393 198, LP 6980 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A late fourteenth-century, c. 1374-1400,
compartment a ; 2-shaped r in final position; looped ascender on d . Also see Additions. Two-line Lombardic blue initials. Red and blue paraphs. Not medieval. Size: 250 x 170 mm. Cover of brown leather over pasteboard. Five raised bands
initial F . It is blue with a pattern of red triangles on the left leg and infilled with red leaves with a green background. Three-line initials in blue with crude brown (oxidised) and blue penwork. Place names underlined in
120 mm. Covered in red leather and fabric mitred and pasted onto pasteboard. Inside cover 'marbled' paper in red and blue. Four raised bands across the spine. Shield with supporting angels and scroll at bottom -'VIRTUTE ET FIDE' on front
b , and l; B-shaped s in final position; 2-shaped r in final position. Body height: 3mm. Item 1: two-line blue initials, one-line red initials, red glosses, initials in text tinted red. Index signs, such as hands ff. 16v, 17v.