Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 656 | |
Title: | Piers Plowman, C version |
Author: | Langland |
Contents: | Piers Plowman, C 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 : N/A; Grid : N/A; County : N Oxon |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | 131 |
Quiring: | 12s |
Catchwords: | In right hand corner of footer, not distinguished in any way. |
Frame: | Drypoint frame ruled only |
Incipits and Explicits: | 'Explicit hic passus secundus; Incipit passus tercius'. |
Marginal Headings: | Passus headings in Latin in the text column in text ink and same script, in the format: 'Explicit hic passus secundus; Incipit passus tercius'. |
Title by Scribe: | No title or table of contents. Text ends incomplete on f114r. |
Flourished Initials: | None. Spaces left for decorated initials at passus beginnings but not executed. |