• 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

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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.

• 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,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

throughout, see Ker 1963, pp. xvi-xvii. Item 1: alternate red and blue initials at each quatrain. Two-line blue initials with red penwork to begin introduction to text. Four-line blue initial with red penwork to begin text proper. Other texts: decoration

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

33 lines ruled in pencil. Several different hands writing in small and compact Secretary scripts influenced by Anglicana. Capitals in blue with red penwork. Some eleborate ascenders in brown ink (e.g. ff. 135-136). Medieval binding. Size: 230 x 150 mm.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

'Anno domini MCCCCxx' (1420). Twenty full bar borders in blue and violet, some with floral clusters (for a detailed description see Hanna 2002, p. 128-129). Three to five-line champ initials. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Rubrics and marginalia

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

colophon in red. Item 2 - in the margin are five rough pictures of bleeding wounds. Item 3 - two-line blue lombards, some letters tinted red, red paraphs. Item 4 - Prologue, first column and a half, in red. Not

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

for the first one, 'Advent Sonday' (brown), rubrication throughout. Red paraphs throughout. F. 1r: initial G of 'Go de' - blue with red flourishing. Other first letters are red. Nota bene: hand - ff. 60r, 97v. Not medieval. Size: 230

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

brown ink in an early fourteenth-century Anglicana hand. Body height: 2 mm. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing - swirls rather than foliate. Two-line red and blue paraphs. Not medieval. Size: 310 x 190 mm. Covered in dark brown/black

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

printed in Brown 1927, fr ontispiece. Purple, blue and gold border with miniature of St. Andrew, in blue, bound to a saltire cross, on a gold ground in the initial, p. 1. Four-line blue initials with red penwork at the

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

was written by one scribe, apart from some lines on f. 20r, who wrote in an 'unpractised Anglicana hand'. Large blue initial with red penwork extending along the left margin and top of the leaf on f. 3r, St. Michael.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Scribe 2: ff. 200v-203v - a roughly contemporary Anglicana book hand. Paragraph marks, alternately red and blue in the South English Legendary . Two-line blue initials with red pen- work flourishes in the South English Legendary . First letter of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

fairly large elongated leaves - orange, blue, pink (not rose), dark pink/red/burgundy, white circles. Border Artist 2: ff. 5r, 7r-8r, 62r-93v, 98v-118r, 124r, 125v, 126r, 128v, 129r, 135r-143r, 163v. Characteristics: gold bar and blue bar with initial decorated with serrated

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

5: underlining of names in red, red paraphs, some initials highlighted red, red and black line filler; two/three-line red or blue initials. Item 7: two-line red initials. Item 12: four-line initial A begins text. Outlined in red with red decoration

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Scribe 2: Item 3 is written in a contemporary business hand. Red paraphs to f. 16v. F. 17r - historiated blue initial A - head of St. Anselm? ff. 17-32v - one-line red initials, red paraphs, two-line red initials, hands