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right in 1929.' 1 8 (wants 1), catchword f. 7v; 2 8 , no catchwords; 3 8 , catchword f. 23v; 4 8 , catchword f. 31v; 5 8 , catchword f. 39v, 6 8 (wants 1), catchword f. 46v

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England London British Library Additional 36983 Bedford MS s. xv 1 English Scribe 1 (ff. 1-118) - Scribal dialect: Bedfordshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 102). Scribe 5 (ff. 264r-279v) - Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas

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4733 s. xv med English Scribe 1: Scribal dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 391 277, LP 7600 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 249). Scribe 2: Scribal dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 410 262, LP 4681 (McIntosh, Samuels

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central Staffs. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 239). Scribe of f. 302r (line 1) to 302r (line 15) - Scribal Dialect: N Staffs. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin

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Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 350 284, LP 80 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, 1986, vol. 1, pp. 164-165). A manuscript containing John Mirk's Festial and saints' lives produced in the late fifteenth century (Ker 1992, p. 351). Wakelin suggests 'just after

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visible. Writing space of 200 x 120 mm. Single columns with 30-38 lines. Frame and lines ruled in drypoint. Text 1 by one scribe writing in an Anglicana script with Secretary influences in a now faded brown ink. Hand begins

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, ff. 99r-108v paper (later inclusion); 10 9 (wants first leaf of quire) paper (later inclusion); 11 3 1 bifolia plus 1, ff. 118r-120v; 12 4 , ff. 121r-124v; 13 12 , ff. 125r-136v, catchword; 14 12 , ff. 137r-148v,

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edited from MS. Rawl. B 171 , 2 vols, EETS, os, 131, London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Tr ü bner, 1 Brie, F. W. D., ed, 1908. The Brut or The Chronicles of England , edited from MS. Rawl. B

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parchment flyleaves at the beginning with ii and iii foliated as 1 and 2, iv and v are not foliated and the text starts on f. 3r (previously f. 1). Unknown On f. 1v is written ' Robert Sandis est

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edited from MS. Rawl. B 171 , 2 vols, EETS, os, 131, London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Tr ü bner, 1. Furnivall, F. J., ed, 1858. Early English Meals and Manners , EETS, os, 32, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr

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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

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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

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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.),

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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

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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 -

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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

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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

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eights (quires 6 and 15 are twelves). Collation as it survives today: ii + 1 8 , ff. 3r-10v; 2 8 , ff. 11r-17v (wants 1 before f. 17r); 3 8 (wants first five leaves), ff. 18r-20v; 4 8 ,

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4, p. 244). The scribal dialect of ff. 152r-163v has been located to Norfolk (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 113). The manuscript contains Latin theological and moral texts which are interspersed with English and some French verses.

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Scribal Scribe 1 is the same as Scribe 1 of Holkham Hall, Wells, Norfolk, Library of the Earl of Leicester, MS 668 (Lewis and McIntosh, 1982, pp. 54-5, 121-2) and Doyle notes that this scribe was also Scribe 1 of