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England Cambridge Trinity College 655 R.4.26/468 s. xiv English Latin French Scribal Dialect: Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 382 212, LP 7070 (McIntosh, Samuels, and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A fourteenth-century copy of Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle along

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United States Charlottesville University of Virginia Hench 10 Aldenham s. xiv 2 English Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 448 277, LP 534 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). A late-fourteenth century copy of the Prick

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pp. i-ii and ii, n. 2. Warton, Thomas. 1871, rpt. 1970. History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century , London: Reeves and Turner, rpt. New York: Haskell House Publishers, p. 240, n. 1.

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Craster, H. H. 1922. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford , vol. 2, part 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 51. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late

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England Worcester Worcester Cathedral Chapter Library F.10 c. 1400 English Latin Scribal Dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 389, LP 7761 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). A loose collection of anti-Lollard Benedictine sermons of c. 1400

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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 by one scribe in the first half

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schelde fro þe fendes fere amen'. English Furnivall 1866, pp. 251-256. Edden 1990, p. 16. Codex Parchment 145 95 mm 1 10 , ff. 2r-11v, catchword; 2 8+1 , ff. 12r-20v, catchword; 3 8 , ff. 21r-28v, catchword; 4 8

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compartment g ; long s in medial position; 2-shaped r ; B-shaped w . Body height: 2mm. Decoration of item 1, Speculum Christiani , ff. 4r-70v: title in red; red underlining, some initials tinted red, names underlined in red, blue,

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eights (quires 6 and 15 are twelves). Collation as it survives today: ii + 1 8 , ff. 3r-10v; 2 8 , ff. 11r-17v (wants 1 before f. 17r); 3 8 (wants first five leaves), ff. 18r-20v; 4 8 ,

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lines) and lines in drypoint. One scribe writing in a small Anglicana script in black ink. Body height 1-2mm. Item 1: title in black with blue paraph before the M . Five-line blue initial M with red penwork extending along

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4, p. 244). The scribal dialect of ff. 152r-163v has been located to Norfolk (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 113). The manuscript contains Latin theological and moral texts which are interspersed with English and some French verses.

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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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Junius 56 SC 5167 s. xv 1 English Scribal dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 400 258, LP 7690 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). A copy of the Prick of Conscience from the first half of the fifteenth-century.

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98, London: Kegan Paul & Tr ü bner, 1. Madan, F., and Craster, H. H. 1922. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford , vol. 2, part 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 69. Morris, R.,

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per charyte þat þou wryte me a fewe medicynes þat y myȝt helpe pore folke þat falleþ falleþ into sykenesse'. '1 ounce oþer two and ȝef hym and arere hym vp with vynegre deo gracias nunc scripsi totum pro christo

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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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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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Craster, H. H. 1922. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford , vol. 2, part 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 48. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late

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College 13 s. xv 2 English Latin Scribe 1 (beginning to f. 169v, ff. 272r-287v): Scribal Dialect: Derbyshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference 415 362, LP 581 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, vol. 1, p. 154). Scribe 2 (ff. 170r-271v, 288r to

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p. 261, n. 1. Codex Parchment 160 110 mm 13 12 (+ 1 after 12). A bifolium. Single columns ruled in pencil for 39-43. One scribe writing in an Anglicana Formata script. This hand annotates Part 1. Red or blue