Manuscript Description Oxford, Oriel College MS 79, Part I | |
Title: | Piers Plowman |
Author: | Langland |
Contents: | Piers Plowman, B Version |
Language: | English and Latin |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Dialect: | LP : 6550; Grid : 526 236; County : Herts |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | xvi + 123 |
Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper right corner. |
Quiring: | 8s |
Catchwords: | Boxed in text ink and highlighted in rubric. |
Page Size: | 215 x 160 |
Frame: | Frame ruled in brown lead |
Writing Space: | 160 x 110 |
Marginal Headings: | Passus headings in margin in rubric. |
Table of Contents: | No table of contents. |
Title by Scribe: | Pers Plowman |
Flourished Initials: | Initial letters at beginnings of passus are 3 line initials in rubric. |
Other Names (not owners): | W.Smethwik; Nomen scriptoris Johannes Mallyng Plenus Amoris. |
Further Information: | Benson and Blanchfield; CD-ROM |