• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

yogh; 2-shaped r . Body height: 2mm. Each item started by a two/three-line gold initial on a quartered rose and blue ground with white filigree infill with a spray growing from ascenders and descenders of black lines and carrying a

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England Oxford Bodleian Library Laud Misc. 601 SC 1491 s. xiv ex English Scribal Dialect: South East Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 393 198, LP 6980 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A late fourteenth-century, c. 1374-1400,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

brown ink in an early fourteenth-century Anglicana hand. Body height: 2 mm. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing - swirls rather than foliate. Two-line red and blue paraphs. Not medieval. Size: 310 x 190 mm. Covered in dark brown/black

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

printed in Brown 1927, fr ontispiece. Purple, blue and gold border with miniature of St. Andrew, in blue, bound to a saltire cross, on a gold ground in the initial, p. 1. Four-line blue initials with red penwork at the

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

was written by one scribe, apart from some lines on f. 20r, who wrote in an 'unpractised Anglicana hand'. Large blue initial with red penwork extending along the left margin and top of the leaf on f. 3r, St. Michael.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Scribe 2: Item 3 is written in a contemporary business hand. Red paraphs to f. 16v. F. 17r - historiated blue initial A - head of St. Anselm? ff. 17-32v - one-line red initials, red paraphs, two-line red initials, hands

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

'reproduce features of a dignified book hand on the basis of an engrossing hand, with upright and square proportions'. Three-line blue initial with red penwork extending into left margin on initial of each saint's life. First letter of each line