• 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

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

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

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

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

USA New Haven, Conn. Yale 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

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

ȝ . No punctuation. Body height: varies from 3 to 4 mm. Large, decorated initial opens text. Passus capitals in blue. Latin and French in red. Paraphs red/blue. Underlining in red. Not contemporary. ff. 94 A hand of the sixteenth

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

compartment a ; 2-shaped r in final position; looped ascender on d . Also see Additions. Two-line Lombardic blue initials. Red and blue paraphs. Not medieval. Size: 250 x 170 mm. Cover of brown leather over pasteboard. Five raised bands

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

b , and l; B-shaped s in final position; 2-shaped r in final position. Body height: 3mm. Item 1: two-line blue initials, one-line red initials, red glosses, initials in text tinted red. Index signs, such as hands ff. 16v, 17v.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

beginning of text; one-line red initials within text. F. 118r: four-line red initial R with blue penwork flourising. F. 148v: three-line red initial with blue penwork flourishing. Not medieval. Note on f. 2v, 'The flyleaves (ff. 1,2,168,169) being two leaves

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

on wodebynde it sleeþ þe cancre in þe mouþe and ouer alle'. 'Magister willelmus leche de kylingholme' is written in blue ink. Killingholme is in north east Lincolnshire, north west of Grimsby. English f. 108v Man of Signs - drawing

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

8-shaped s in final position; forked ascender on h and l ; elongated and spurred ascenders on top line. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Red rubrics. Red paraphs. Eighteenth century brown calf over pasteboard. ff. iii + 90

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

red; couplets linked by squared red brackets formed from wiggly lines. Not medieval. Size: 155 x 100 mm. Covered in blue cloth with a dark green leather spine. Mitred and pasted onto pasteboard. Five raised bands across the spine. No

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

the letter on the right side. & used regularly. Body height: 4 mm. First initial of text eight-lines deep with blue ground and red penwork but now much damaged. Red words in text, mostly names. Two-line red initials. Not medieval.