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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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Grid Reference: 372 244, LP 7440 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A manuscript in two parts. Part 1 is a fifteenth-century copy of a Latin chronicle of the Kings of England 900-1445 and Part 2 is a collection

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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

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of St. Justina (IMEV 2953 ) English ff. 138r-139v South English Legendary: Legend of St. Michael (IMEV 3029 ) Part 1. English Cf. Horstmann 1887, pp. 299-322. f. 139v South English Legendary: Life of St. Jerome (IMEV 2922 ) English

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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. 48. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late

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separately on modern paper. No catchwords survive. 'From contents and watermarks apparently: 1 8 (wants 1); 2 8 ; 3 12 ; 4-5 10 ; 6 10 (wants 1); four leaves of uncertain structure, ff. 58r-61v. One leaf lost after

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College 13 s. xv 2 English Latin Scribe 1 (beginning to f. 169v, ff. 272r-287v): Scribal Dialect: Derbyshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference 415 362, LP 581 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin, vol. 1, p. 154). Scribe 2 (ff. 170r-271v, 288r to

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Library Richardson 44 Aldenham MS s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 416 298, LP 678 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). A manuscript dated to the second quarter of the fifteenth century containing the

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England London British Library Arundel 272 s. xv English Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-32v) - scribal dialect: Derbyshire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 105). Scribe 2 (ff. 33r-35v) - Scribal dialect: Staffordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 406

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) 'he þat dyeth in'. Unreadable English Erbe 1905. Codex Parchment c. 200 135 mm 1 10 wanting 1 (this stub is foliated as 1), ff. 2-9v, catchword; 2 8 , ff. 10r-17v, catchword; 3 8 , ff. 18r-26v, catchword;

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Digby , vol. 1, Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, p. 31, no. 8. Horstmann, C., ed, 1892. The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript , 2 vols, EETS, os, 98, London: Kegan Paul & Tr ü bner, 1. McIntosh, A., Samuels,

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1 'modern' paper flyleaf at back along with 4 paper leaves added when rebound. None Good Unknown Belonged in the eighteenth century to ' Andrew Clerke ', f. 1; to the Norfolk antiquary Peter Le Neve (d. 1729), f.

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College, MS 13 s. xv ex English Scribe 1: Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 439 286, LP 699 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). Scribe 2: Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped but McIntosh,

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whiche mi defaute amende kan'. Southern recension of the text. Codex Parchment 265 160 mm 1 12 ; 2 12 (wants 12), 3 12 (wants 1, 9); 4 12 (wants 5-8), 5-8 12 . Catchwords: ff. 12v; 36v; 48v; 60v;

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2403 s. xv ex English Scribe 1: Scribal dialect - Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 414 292, LP 517 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 244). A late fifteenth-century copy of John Mirk's Festial with an explanation of the Apostle's

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Six scribes (of many) with a scribal dialect located to Warwickshire/Staffordshire. Scribe 1 (ff. 4r-21r) - Scribal Dialect: Suffolk, 'Language of Lavenham' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 116). Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 592 254, LP 8320. Suffolk.

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be in a later hand?); 61v (in a very small hand in red ink at very bottom of folio). Item 1 - Pricking not visible. Writing space: double columns with each column 280 x 95 mm with 51 lines. Frame

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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

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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