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Huntington Library HM 125 s. xiv/xv English Latin Scribal Dialect: Worcestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 383 231, LP 7800 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 250). A late fourteenth/early fifteenth-century copy (Dutschke 1989, p. 156) of the Prick of Conscience

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list in Latin of expressions relating to the deity followed by an English charm, the Letter to Charlemagne . The English text begins on f. 175v. Latin English Printed in Baugh 1956, p. 154. f. 178r-v Fifteen Joys of the

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the Earl of Leicester 668 s. xiv/xv English Latin Scribal Dialect: Scribe 1 - Lichfield; Scribe 2 - Lichfield; Scribe 3 - Staffordshire; Scribe 4 - too short to assess. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin

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, M. L., ed, So Meny People Longages and Tonges: Philological Essays on Scots and Mediaeval English Presented to Angus McIntosh , Edinburgh: Middle English Dialect Project, pp. 251-264, pp. 257-259, 263, and nn. 22, 26. Lewis, R. E., and

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Middle English Alliterative Poetry and its Literary Background , Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, pp. 88-100, p. 94. Doyle, A. I. 1986. ‘ Remarks on Surviving Manuscripts of Piers Plowman ’ , in Simpson, J. and Kratzmann, G., ed, Medieval English Religious

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'þer þou regnest lord and sire'. English Cf. Horstmann 1892, pp. 19-20. ff. 35v-36r Prayer to the Virgin (IMEV 3241 ) 'Swete leuedy synte marie ff ul of grace and curteysie'. 'swete ihesus amen'. English Cf. Horstmann 1892, pp. 20-21.

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English Religious and Ethical Literature: Essays in Honour of George H. Russell , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 35-48, p. 37. Eljenholm-Nichols, A., Orr, M. T., Scott, K. L., and Dennison, L., ed, 2000. An Index of Images in

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Lyell empt. 6 s. xv in English Scribe 1: Scribal dialect: north west Gloucestershire (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 198). Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: not mapped. Scribe 2: Scribal Dialect: 'too short to assess but probably south central Midlands'

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Index of Middle English Prose: Manuscripts in the Laudian Collection Bodleian Library, Oxford , Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 87-88. Ogilvie-Thompson, S. J. 1991. The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist VIII, Handlist of Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in

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College 6 s. xv med English Scribal Dialect: Herefordshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 345 269, LP 7510 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 199). A mid-fifteenth-century manuscript (Hanna 2002, p. 7) containing Lydgate's Troy Book . ff. 1r-134r The Troy

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15 E.15 s. xv 1 English Scribal Dialect: Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: Not analysed. Lewis and McIntosh, 'Linguistically mixed but with characteristics suggesting it was copied in Worcester' (1982, p. 120). A copy of the Prick of Conscience from the

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Atlas of Late Medieval English: General Introduction, Index of Sources, Dot Maps , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1. McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4

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Middle English Herbal reconstructed from Various Manuscripts , Essays and Studies on English Language and Literature, 6, Uppsala Universitet: Engelska. Dennison, L., Driver, M. W., Eljenholm Nichols, A., and Scott, K. L. ed, 2001. An Index of Images in English

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Amen'. English ff. 155v-158v South English Legendary: Life of St. Cecilia (IMEV 2873 ) 'Seint cecile kinne i bore was at Rome'. 'Graunte ous to þulk ioie come þer þat angles hire to ladde. Amen'. English ff. 158b-167v South English

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Library Brotherton 500 s. xiv/xv English Latin Scribal Dialect (main scribe, ff. 1-147v): Worcestershire, Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 370 266, LP 7660 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 249). Lewis and McIntosh state 'North west Worcestershire' (1982, p. 56). A

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in full. English f. 4v Recipe Too faded to decipher. This hand also responsible for texts on ff. 1v, 3v, 4r. English f. 5r Charm for women in childbirth 'For wemen þat trawayillit on cyldebed'. Latin EnglishEnglish rubric to

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þe sauter'. Rubric in red. English ff. 1v-276r Richard Rolle of Hampole English Psalter (IPMEP 271 ) 'In þis psalme firste he spekiþ of crist & of his folweres'. 'to sle gostly fro god'. English Codex Parchment 180 120 mm

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Role in Manuscript Anthologies ’ , Yearbook of English Studies , 33, 120-130. Braswell, L. 1987. The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist IV: A Handlist of Douce Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Bodleian Library, Oxford , Cambridge:

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Ripon Fragment of Mandeville ’ s Travels ’ , English Studies , 38, 262-265. . McIntosh, A., Samuels, M. L. and Benskin, M. 1986. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English: County Dictionary , 4 vols, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press,

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Amen amen pur charyte'. English ff. 62r-80v Assumption of the Virgin ( IMEV 2165 ) 'Hic incipit assumpcio beate marie'. 'In honorance of ihesu cryst'. 'That ihesus vs graunt so. Amen.' 'Celi regina fit scriptori medicina'. English Lumby 1866, pp.