• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

begins with a five-line capital B in red and blue with fine line penwork decorating the infill, red, and around the letter, red and violet. Red paraphs. Red underlining. Three-line blue initials with fine red penwork for divisions. Not medieval.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

divisions: five-line blue initials with extended red penwork extending into the left margin e.g. ff. 21v; 52v, Dutschke (1989, p. 158) refers to these as 'parted red and blue initials with void leaf infilling and flourished extensions'; two/three-line blue initials

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

rise to a three-sided bar-frame border. At the top a cluster of rose and blue leaves gives way to a straight spray constructed of a blue vine terminating in a rose leaf. The vine is decorated with a white central

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

brackets to f. 24r; red titles; red and blue paraphs; top margin 'title' by scribe in black preceded by blue paraph on recto and red paraph on verso. Folio 14v - five-line blue initial T with fine red penwork flourishing

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

f. 104v. Folio 1r, seven-line initial in blue and gold with foliate infill (gold on blue ground), extending into full border of double stave (pink and blue), with curling foliate decoration in blue and gold (gold almost completely rubbed off

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

3mm. Two/three-line capitals in blue with red penwork. Rubrics in red throughout and marginalia and Latin in red, particularly in the Prick of Conscience . F. 4v carries a four-line Lombardic capital in gold with a blue background decorated with

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

blue and rose with white circles and white lines. The gold bar and rose vine move down from the bottom of the initial and terminate at the bottom of the page. The bar tapers onto a triangular ground of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Rameseye'. Facsimile in P ä cht and Alexander (1973, p. 59, Plate LXVI). Two/three-line blue initials with red penwork, alternating red and blue paraphs, red and blue initials for stanzas, occasional red initials, some initials tinted red, titles and running

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

printed in Gradon 1988, p. xxx. Foliate borders in blue, pink and gold with 5-line initial on a gold ground in purple, red and blue, eg. pp. 1 and 109. Four-line blue initials with red penwork. English Biblical quotations underlined

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Two-line red initials. Red and blue paraphs. Blue and red line fillers. One-line blue initials with red penwork forming a box around the initial. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Seven, eight, and nine-line blue initial I with red

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Initial G of Festial in red and blue; initials of first words of homilies or new subjects decorated throughout - two-line blue initials with fine red penwork spreading in margin; red and blue paraphs; following text decorated in the same

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

six-line capital I in initial position. Brackets in red. Red paraphs throughout. Item 7: c. ten-line blue initial I with red penwork flourishing and blue penwork extending along length of left margin, half way along bottom margin and whole of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

compartment a ; þ ; 8-shaped g in initial position; 2-shaped r in medial position; Body height: 3mm. Red, and blue paraphs with underlining in red. Latin in red. Only a fragment remains. Unknown Unknown Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

to Sir William Hylton, f. 108r (see Additions). Initial page: five-line gold (now white with remnants of gold) U with blue infill patterned with white-line foliate decoration (now oxidised). Initial ground of rose with (now oxidised) white line decoration; sprays

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Secretary script with Anglicana looped d . Two-line gold initials with violet flourishing. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Red rubrics begin each section. Blue and red paraphs. Latin underlined in ff. 171v-201r. This section also has a different

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Bunt notes that the hand is a 'bold textura of the late r 14th century' (1985, p. 3). Two-line blue or blue and green initials with red penwork mark new sections of the poem. Not contemporary. Rebound in 1969. Letter

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Formata hand. Item 1: 'Cha mpe initials (gold on blue and purple with white tracery) ff. 1, 4, 93v, 126v, 128, 141' (Mynors and Thomson 1993, p. 69). Item 2: blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Late nineteenth-century binding. Parchment

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

script. Ff. 1v, 2r - two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Initial folio of Stanzaic Life - nine-line blue initial I with red penwork flourishing forming a two-sided border. F. 87v - two-line blue initial with red penwork flourishing

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

2 copied ff. 97r-129v in Textura. Two and three-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. F. 5v - nine-line blue initial I with red penwork flourishing. Initial page (f. 1r): thirteen-line blue initial þ with extensive fine red penwork flourishing

• 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