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Manuscripts of the West Midlands
Writing space of 270 x 195 mm. Single col umns with 37 lines. Frame and lines ruled in drypoint. Scribe 1 (ff. 1-169r): regular Anglicana Formata, influenced occasionally by Bastard Anglicana, with minums generally traced continuously, but occasionally reverts to
of which are West Midlands manuscripts. Blake, N. and Robinson, P., ed, 1993. The Canterbury Tales Project: Occasional Papers , 1, Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications, p. 95. Bowers, J. M., ed, 1992. The Canterbury Tales : fifteenth century
1729 ) 'Ihesu lord wel come ye be'. 'Houfull be my last bred. Fiat. Amen'. Codex Parchment 150 85 mm 1 6 (includes ff. viii-ix), 2-6 16 , 7 12 , 8 16 , 9 6 (3 and 5 canc.),
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
of f. 174r-v: language similar to main hand and 'belongs probably to N Salop' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 102). A mid fifteenth-century copy of the Stanzaic Life of Christ (Foster 1926, p. xi); Dialogue between a
Cotton Claudius A.ii s. xv 1 English Scribe of f. 3v - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped. Scribe of ff. 4r-30v - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped. Scribe of ff. 40r-128r -
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
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
bryngeth ous to minde'. 'To hoeuene hoe make ous stye at oure endeday. Amen'. English Codex Parchment 230 170mm 1 14 (1 and 14 are added leaves), ff. 1r-13v; 2 12 , ff. 14r-25v; 3 12 , ff. 26r-37v; 4
England Oxford Bodleian Library Douce 302 SC 21876 s. xv 1 English Latin Scribe 1 - Scribal dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 383 336, 189 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 237). Scribe 2 - Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire.
98, London: Kegan Paul & Tr ü bner, 1. Horstmann, C. 1895. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle of Hampole and His Followers , Library of Early English Writers, 2 vols, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1. Horstmann, C. 1896. Yorkshire Writers: Richard Rolle
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
(IMEV 404 ) 'As reson rywylde my rechyles mynde'. 'ffilius regis is alyve et non mortuus est'. 'Explicit'. English Furnival 1 866, pp. 233-242. ff. 5r-7v The Complaint of Christ (IMEV 3611 ) 'This is crystes owen complaynt fro man
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
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
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.
Library, MS Additional 37787 in Baugh 1956, pp. 107-121. Conlee 1991, pp. 18-49. Codex Parchment 225 155 mm iv + [1, 2 - now lost ] ; 3-5 8 ; 6 4 (wants 4); 7-13 8 ; 14 8 (wants
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
England Oxford Bodleian Library Rawl. poet. 139 SC 14633 s. xiv 2 (Lewis and McIntosh p. 155). English Scribal Dialect: Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 371 326, LP 192 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 233). A copy
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