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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
300 220 mm. Twelve quires of eight. Ff. 1 and 2 originally flyleaves. First two folios blank. Quire 12 wants two leaves after f. 94. Catchwords for all quires except quire 1. Catchword in scroll with grotesque heads in profile
twelve, apart from quire 1 10 , quire 11 8 , and quire 15 10 . Catchwords throughout apart from penultimate quire, 15. Catchword on f. 10v in scroll. Pricking not visible. Writing space of 1 60 x c. 80
medical recipe in an even later, eighteenth-century hand, + 2 paper flyleaves. Codex Paper 210 140 mm 1 5 , ff. 1r-5v, 1 possibly a singleton; 2 12 , ff. 6r-16v, wants 12, signatures i-vi; 3 12 wants all -
mm 1 6 , 2 6 + 1 leaf after 6; 3-5 12 ; 6 10 (wants 1-3); 7-8 12 ; 9-11 8 ; 12 8 (wants 1, 2); 13 8 (wants 8); 14 8 ; 15 6 (wants 1,
Ashmole 41 SC 6921 s. xv 1 English Part I: Scribal dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 392 323, LP 243 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 237). Part II: Not analysed. A composite manuscript that was originally two although
have holes, corners seem to have been gnawed. 300 mm 205 mm iii + 1-2 8 , 3 6 + 1, 4 8 , 5 10 , 6 4 , 7 2 , 8-10 8 , 11 6 , 12
SC 21715 s. xv in English Scribe 1, ff. 1r-96v: Scribal dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 432 243, LP 8050 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 245). Scribe 2, ff. 97r-129v: Scribal Dialect: Oxfordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid
Weobley, all in West Herefordshire. Fifteenth-century addition. Codex Parchment 250 160 mm 1 10 ; 2-8 12 ; 9 2 ; 10-13 12 ; 15 11 (wants 1); 16-17 10 ; 18 14 ; 19 12 ; 20 10 ;
love on rode can hynge'. 'Explicit expliceat ludere scriptor...þis boke is cald prik of conciense'. Codex Parchment 170-75 110-15 mm 1 8 , ff. 2r-9v, catchword; 2 8 , ff. 10r-17v, catchword; 3 8 , ff. 18r-25v; 4 8 ,
Pricking: none visible. Writing space of 150 x 105 mm. Single columns with 26-27 (scribe 1) and 25-30 (scribe 2) lines. Ruling in drypoint. Scribe 1 - ff. 1r-171r: writing in a professional Anglicana Formata script of the early fifteenth
ff. 124r-135v, catchword; 15 12 + 1, ff. 136r-147v, catchword; 16 12 , ff. 149r-160v; 17 12 , ff. 161r-172v, catchword; f. 189v catchword; ff. 173r-191v too tightly bound to ascertain quiring. Item 1: Pricking not visible. Writing space of
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' (McIntosh,
Latin f. 75r-v Papers and accounts relating to the navigation of the river Wye 1600-1663. Codex Parchment 200 133 mm 1 8 , ff. 1r-8v; 2 8 , ff. 9r-17v; 3 8 , ff. 18r-25v, catchword; 4 8 , ff.
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
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.
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
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
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
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 ,
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