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Lyell empt. 6 s. xv in English Scribe 1: Scribal dialect: north west Gloucestershire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 198). Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped. Scribe 2: Scribal Dialect: 'too short to assess but probably south central Midlands'

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Index of Middle English Prose: Manuscripts in the Laudian Collection Bodleian Library, Oxford , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 87-88. Ogilvie-Thompson, S. J. 1991. The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist VIII, Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in

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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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15 E.15 s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: Not analysed. Lewis and McIntosh, 'Linguistically mixed but with characteristics suggesting it was copied in Worcester' (1982, p. 120). A copy of the Prick of Conscience from the

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Atlas of Late Medieval English: General Introduction, Index of Sources, Dot Maps , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4

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C. 81 SC 11946 s. xv English Two alternating hands in similar language (Scribe 2, ff. 9r-11v; 19r-v). Scribal Dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 395 245, LP 7841 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 151). A medical

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Middle English Herbal reconstructed from Various Manuscripts , Essays and Studies on English Language and Literature, 6, Uppsala Universitet: Engelska. Dennison, L., Driver, M. W., Eljenholm Nichols, A., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of Images in English

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English f. 91v South English Legendary: Feast of the Circumcision ( IMEV 4266 ) English f. 92r South English Legendary: Epiphany ( IMEV 3813 ) English f. 92r South English Legendary: Life of St. Hilary ( IMEV 2912 )

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Library Kk.i.12 s. xv English Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 356 244, LP 7420 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A fifteenth-century copy of the Brut to the sixth year of Henry V copied in one hand.

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J., ed, 1858. Early English Meals and Manners , EETS, os, 32, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr ü bner. Hudson, A. 1966. ‘ Tradition and Innovation in Some Middle English Manuscripts ’ , The Review of English Studies , 17,

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vicarium de malden'. English ff. 30r-40r Proverbs of Prophets, Poets and Saints/ Proverbs of Old Philosophers ( IMEV 3501 ) 'The wyse man in his boke'. 'and god that made all thynge ȝeve vs all good endyng'. English ff. 40v-127r

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20 SC 6420 s. xv 2 English Scribal dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: Not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). A generously decorated copy of the Canterbury Tales beginning with the General Prologue and ending with the

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from Bodl. MS Rawlinson A 389 , Middle English Texts, 22, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, p. 12. Hanna, R. 1984. The Index of Middle English Prose. Handlist 1. Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Henry E. Huntington Library

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F. 90v contains scribbles. English ff. 91r-96r Treatise on urines 'These are þe tokens of colour in urynes'. ' & viscose & loþe to departe'. Imperfect. English f. 97r-98v Latin and English catalogue of herbs English Latin ff. 99r-100r Agnus

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Explicit'. English f. 179rb-vb The Moon of Ptolome 'The mone of ptolome'. 'Here begynnyth þe mone'. 'a yere soyrow'. English ff. 179v-181ra Seven Planets 'Nowe ye moste vnderstonde that there ben 7 planetis'. '2 yere and a halfe'. English ff.

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G. C., ed, 1957. The English Works of John Gower , EETS, es, 81-82, London: Oxford University Press, pp. clxiii-clxiv. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: General Introduction, Index of

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and spiritual mercy. Glossed by a later c. seventeenth-century owner? English. f. 4r Ten Commandments 'There by x commaundementis of the which'. 'and on cristyn forth beleue thou stodfastly amen'. English. ff. 4v-6r Prose prayer 'O blyssed lord that madyst

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and English on good manners. At the end is written, 'G. E.' and 'J. Th'. English Latin ff. 30r-31v John Lydgate Stans puer ad mensam (IMEV 2233 ) 'Mi dere child first thisylue'. 'put al defaute apon iohn lidgate'. English

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Library Ee.iv.35.2 s. xiv 2 English Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 383 193, LP 7000 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A composite manuscript. Part 1, a sixteenth-century manuscript, contains various texts such as The Child and

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6571 The Royal Book ?s. xv English Scribal Dialect: south Herefordshire (Whitchurch area), or north east Monmouthshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (Benskin and McIntosh 1986, p. 200). A manuscript in one hand located to the Herefordshire/Monmouthshire border containing