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er. 280 195 mm 1 8 , ff. 3r-10v; 2 4 , ff. 11r-18v; 3 11 , 6 added, ff. 19r-29v; 4 4 , ff. 30r-37v; 5 8 , ff. 38r-46v; 6 8 , wants 1, ff. 47r-53v, catchwords; 7

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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 -

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poet. 141 SC 14635 s. xv 1 English Scribal dialect: Shropshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 365 295, LP 237 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 233). A fifteenth-century manuscript of the second quarter of the fifteenth century (Seymour 1997, p.

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- c. 23/24. Ruling not visible. Scribe 1 (ff. 2r-6r) writing in a small cursive hand. Characteristics: double compartment g ; 2-shaped r ; B-shaped w ; double compartment a . Body height: 1 mm. Scribe 2 (ff. 7r-86r) writing

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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,

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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

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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

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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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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

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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 ;

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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

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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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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.

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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

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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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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

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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 ,

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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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

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