Late Medieval English Scribes

Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Digby 145

Title:	Piers Plowman, A Version
Author:	Langland
Contents:	Piers Plowman C Version
Language:	English and Latin
Date Range:	1531/2
Scribal Hands:	Adrian Fortescue Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. Display a full page showing this scribe's hand
Material:	Paper
No of Folios:	iii+170
Pagination:	Modern pencil in upper right corner.
Catchwords:	None
Frame:	Drypoint frame
Marginal Headings:	Passus headings in text column in black ink, using format: 'Passus secundus de visione/'.
Title by Scribe:	On f2r Primus passus de visione/Petri Ploughman/
Other Names (not owners):	Copied by Adrian Fortescue.
Further Information:	Macray, W. D. 'Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues: IX Digby Manuscripts', a reproduction of the 1883 catalogue with notes on Macray's descriptions of the manuscript by R. W. Hunt and A. G. Watson, Oxford Bodleian Library 1999.

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