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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

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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University Library Osborn a 13 s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 239). A manuscript of the Prick of Conscience written by one scribe in the first half

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schelde fro þe fendes fere amen'. English Furnivall 1866, pp. 251-256. Edden 1990, p. 16. Codex Parchment 145 95 mm 1 10 , ff. 2r-11v, catchword; 2 8+1 , ff. 12r-20v, catchword; 3 8 , ff. 21r-28v, catchword; 4 8

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compartment g ; long s in medial position; 2-shaped r ; B-shaped w . Body height: 2mm. Decoration of item 1, Speculum Christiani , ff. 4r-70v: title in red; red underlining, some initials tinted red, names underlined in red, blue,

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Lancs' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, 1986, vol. 1, p. 109). Scribe 5 (f. 163v-164r), Scribe 6 (f. 170r-170v), and Scribe 7 (ff. 170v-170v): Scribal dialect: Cheshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 109). Scribe 8 (ff. 180v-181r): Scribal

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lines) and lines in drypoint. One scribe writing in a small Anglicana script in black ink. Body height 1-2mm. Item 1: title in black with blue paraph before the M . Five-line blue initial M with red penwork extending along

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1900. The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity Cambridge: A Descriptive Catalogue , 3 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary ,

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a. 1 SC 3928-42 Vernon s. xiv ex English French Latin Scribe 1: Scribal dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 378 262, LP 7670 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). Serjeantson places the scribe of the Index (Scribe 1)

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sprays from clusters at corners going along top and bottom margin, top margin straight, bottom margin shorter and curled. Item 1: f. 27v - historiated initial O with picture of the Virgin? in blue cloak and orange robe with arms

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generosus & morabatur in Schiptoun qui predictus willielmus fecit librum qui vocatur Perys ploughman' (see facsimile in Kane 1965, plate 1, facing p. 32). The last folio of this manuscript carries a fragment of the French prose Lancelot but is