• 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

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

in red apart from two-line initials in blue. Initial page of text - f. 1v: eight-line þ of 'þe' and two-line B of 'Bifore' in red. Titles in red with first letter a blue Lombard. Some passages in red. Eight/ten-line

• 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

and blue with white line decoration. Sprays of feathering grow from the three corners sporting green tinted oval lobes with pairs of gold balls and terminating in a gold elongated cone with spikes and a green tinted 'feather'. Two-line blue

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

ff. 13r-20v: three-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing along margin (first letter of each Psalm). One-line red and blue Lombardic capitals. Red underlining. Text 3, ff. 21r-25v: three-line blue initial with red penwork begins text. Two-line blue initials with

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

quartered grounds in blue and rose with white line decoration and outlined in black. Black hairlines with their bases tinted a bright green protrude from the corners. On f. 5r the voids within the initial W are blue with 'barley

• 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

position. Body height 1.5-2mm. Eleven-line blue initial I with red penwork extending along left and top margin begins first text. Other texts begin with three-line initials with fine red penwork e.g. f. 9r. Two-line blue initials with red penwork throughout.

• 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

with crude penwork decoration and tinted green. Underlining in red. Three-line red Lombardic capitals. Red end-line decoration. Item 3: four-line blue initial G with red penwork flourishing and grotesque head protruding into left margin. Title in red scroll. Stanzas marked

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

2 mm. In red: Latin lines in first text; one-line initials until f. 51; red 'titles' in margin. One three-line blue initial with red flourishes on f. 3r. Not medieval. Size: 215 x 135 mm. Covered in brown leather mitred

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

1: paraphs and some letters tinted red. Item 2: red paraphs, brown ink. Item 3: text begins with a five-line blue initial with crude red penwork and infill; two-line red initials, red paraphs, running titles underlined in red. Item 5:

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

for the first one, 'Advent Sonday' (brown), rubrication throughout. Red paraphs throughout. F. 1r: initial G of 'Go de' - blue with red flourishing. Other first letters are red. Nota bene: hand - ff. 60r, 97v. Not medieval. Size: 230

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

closed s in final position and long s elsewhere; Body height: 1.5 mm. Ff. 3r-29v: text begins with a four-line blue initial with red penwork flourishing. Latin lines in red. Ff. 30r-31v: three-line red Lombardic capital m begins text. All

• 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

fairly large elongated leaves - orange, blue, pink (not rose), dark pink/red/burgundy, white circles. Border Artist 2: ff. 5r, 7r-8r, 62r-93v, 98v-118r, 124r, 125v, 126r, 128v, 129r, 135r-143r, 163v. Characteristics: gold bar and blue bar with initial decorated with serrated