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Writing space: 160 x 90 mm. Single columns with 24 lines. Ruling: traces of brown crayon for the frame. Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-32r), writing in black ink in a neat Anglicana Formata hand. Characteristics: ascenders on b and l at

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College 16A s. xvi 1 English Scribal Dialect: Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 359 275, LP 4239 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 234). A copy of the Prick of Conscience from the first half of the sixteenth century. ff.

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Ripon Cathedral xiii. A. 35 s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped but McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin state 'language of N Staffs' (1986, p. 239). All that remains of this manuscript is a double

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on p. 65, a blank leaf. 215 150 mm Unascertainable Pricking: none. Writing space: variable. Columns: single. Lines: variable. Scribe 1, pp. 2-31. Cursive. Scribe 2, p. 33 only. Cursive. Scribe 3 pp. 39-50. Cursive. Scribe 4 pp. 57-71 (except

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Parchment 310 230 mm 1-27 8 with catchwords. Quire 12 wants 7 (stub remains, initial letters visible). Quire 14 wants 1 (stub remains, initial letters visible). Pricking of small rounded holes in the header (10 mm from the edge), footer

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The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript , 2 vols, EETS, os, 98, London: Kegan Paul & Tr ü bner, 1. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary ,

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Library Harley 2376 s. xv 1 English Scribal dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 362 225, LP 7320 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A manuscript containing the C-text of Piers Plowman dated to the first half of the

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Press, p. xi. Boffey, J. 1985. Manuscripts of English Courtly Love Lyrics in the Later Middle Ages , Manuscript Studies 1, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, pp. 20, 128-129. A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1808-1812 , 4

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College 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

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40ra - Scribal Dialect: not analysed. Scribe of ff. 127va-end - Scribal Dialect: Derbyshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, pp. 149-150). An early fifteenth-century manuscript containing Richard Rolle's English Psalter . f. 1r-v Prologue to Rolle's Commentary on

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cristes merci ne is wel more'. English Conlee 1991, pp. 18-49. Codex Parchment 270 180 mm According to G0rlach, '1 14 (1, 3-4 lost, 5 mutilated), 2 12 , 3 10 (9 mutilated), 4-9 12 , 10 12 (2-3 lost

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within the circles in a clockwise direction (Mooney 1995, p. 116). Latin Codex Parchment 420 270 mm 2 flyleaves + 1 8 , 2 8 (one cancelled)-10 8 (wants 8), next quire missing, 11-37 8 + 2 flyleaves, one used

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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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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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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.