Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 814 | |
Title: | Piers Plowman, B version |
Author: | Langland |
Contents: | Piers Plowman ABC splice |
Language: | English and Latin |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Dialect: | LP : N/A; County : London/N Gloucs. Contains a stratum of North Gloucestershire dialect according to Samuels 1985. |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | iii + 98 |
Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper right corner. |
Quiring: | 12s |
Catchwords: | In right hand corner of footer in text ink and often boxed. |
Page Size: | 250 x 180 |
Frame: | Drypoint frame and lines |
Writing Space: | 185 x 130 |
Incipits and Explicits: | On f92 in margin: 'explicit hic'. |
Marginal Headings: | Passus headings in text column in black ink in higher grade of script, underlined in rubric: 'Passus septimus de visione vt supra & c.' |
Table of Contents: | No table of contents. |
Title by Scribe: | No title. |
Paragraph Marks: | Alternating red and blue paraphs |
Flourished Initials: | 3-line red/blue decorated initials at passus beginnings. Latin underlined in rubric. |
Other Names (not owners): | John Thomas |
Further Information: | Benson and Blanchfield. |