• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

height: 2 mm. Initial page: five-line blue Lombardic initial with red penwork flourishing along top and left margin extending to another three-line blue Lombardic initial with red penwork forming a two-sided border. Four/five-line blue Lombardic initials with red penwork flourishing

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

in red apart from two-line initials in blue. Initial page of text - f. 1v: eight-line þ of 'þe' and two-line B of 'Bifore' in red. Titles in red with first letter a blue Lombard. Some passages in red. Eight/ten-line

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

compartment g ; ȝ; Body height: 2mm. In red: paraphs; brackets; red box around 'headings'. Three-line blue initial T on initial page; two-line blue initials; six-line initial I . Not medieval. 235 x 160 mm. Covered in grey/green leather mitred

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Body height 2 mm. Two-line blue initials with elongated red penwork flourishing, c. 25 lines on ff. 1v, 2r, 8v, 21v, 23v, and 31v. Not medieval. Twentieth century? Size: 270 x 185 mm with blue leather on pasteboard. 'Legenda Sanctorum

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

of each line tinted red. Red paraphs. Three-line red or blue lombards for divisions in text. Some words/lines in red. F. 116v - 'AMEN' on a separate line in blue lombards with red infill and surrounded by a pattern of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Body height: 2mm. F. 1r: three-line blue initial with red penwork flourishing. Other folios: three-line blue initials with red penwork extending into margins. One-line blue or red Lombardic initials. Latin underlining in red. Blue and red paraphs. Heraldic shields: f.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

compartment a ; þ ; 8-shaped g in initial position; 2-shaped r in medial position; Body height: 3mm. Red, and blue paraphs with underlining in red. Latin in red. Only a fragment remains. Unknown Unknown Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

through in red with red curls at the end; first letter of each line. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing extending into border. Four-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing into left margin. Nota bene/index signs: ff. 38v, 82v,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Secretary script with Anglicana looped d . Two-line gold initials with violet flourishing. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Red rubrics begin each section. Blue and red paraphs. Latin underlined in ff. 171v-201r. This section also has a different

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

and blue with white line decoration. Sprays of feathering grow from the three corners sporting green tinted oval lobes with pairs of gold balls and terminating in a gold elongated cone with spikes and a green tinted 'feather'. Two-line blue

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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 ;

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

quartered grounds in blue and rose with white line decoration and outlined in black. Black hairlines with their bases tinted a bright green protrude from the corners. On f. 5r the voids within the initial W are blue with 'barley

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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,