Manuscript Description Tokyo, Takamiya Collection MS 23 | |
MS Appellation: | olim Sion College MS L 40.2 E76 |
Title: | Piers Plowman, B version |
Author: | Langland |
Contents: | Piers Plowman, B Version |
Language: | English and Latin |
Date Range: | 16th century c. 1550 (Kane Donaldson) |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Material: | Paper |
No of Folios: | 182 pages + 3 paper flyleaves |
Pagination: | None |
Quiring: | 4s |
Signatures: | Quire signatures number each leaf, so letter plus arabic number 1-4 at bottom right of every leaf; begins a2 on first leaf and continues to z4, then two more possibly tyronian 'et' but cropped completely on first and only top shows on second with top of '2'. |
Catchwords: | None |
Page Size: | 262 x 185 |
Frame: | Dry point left margin only; (chain lines provide horizontal lines) |
Writing Space: | 233 x ca. 140 |
Incipits and Explicits: | Acephalus and ends f182v at bottom of page so only Passus headings. |
Marginal Headings: | Same ink as text, written by scribe in spaces left between lines for them, larger than rest of text and wider nib so bolder. |
Other Names (not owners): | Last paper flyleaf (detached but probably recto), 'Bolton Wansell', 16th century; margins of f66v have notes relating to ownership by 'Thomas Hewlet' and to MS having been written by 'George Hewlet': Mr Thomas Hewlet oow this boke and [..] .. bring ' well for his labor that George Hewlet write' other notes and scribbles, including f33v 'William j'.' in left margin. |
Further Information: | Benson & Blanchard; Takamiya list in Marrow, et al., The Medieval Book |