Manuscript Description England, York, University of York, Borthwick Institute for Archives, Add. 196 | |
MS Appellation: | olim Eaton Hall, Duke of Westminster; now privately owned, temporary deposit at Borthwick Institute; W (Kane) |
Title: | Piers Plowman, AC hybrid |
Author: | Langland |
Contents: | Piers Plowman AC 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. |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | 3 parchment flyleaves + 76 + 2 parchment stubs and 1 parchment flyleaf |
Pagination: | Medieval foliation in upper outer corners recto, 'ff' plus roman numerals; modern pencil foliation in arabic numbers also upper outer corners, further to right than original. |
Quiring: | 8s: 9 quires of 8 plus one quire of 6 |
Catchwords: | About half way down lower margin of last folio verso of each quire, and about 2/3 way across the page so well within frame lines; unembellished except initial touched with red, by scribe. |
Page Size: | 278 x 193 |
Frame: | 2 x vertical, 4 x horizontal enclosing top and bottom lines, ruled within, pale brown ink, pricking in upper and outer margins of some folios survives. |
Writing Space: | 200 x 140 |
Marginal Headings: | Passus headings rubric until 29v, thereafter scribal keys provided but not completed in red; another set of Capituli headings to right of beginnings of the passus, in grey-brown ink, probably not the work of original scribe. |
Paragraph Marks: | Red paraphs; Latin lines underlined in red, and line-fillers (waving lines) in red in some parts of the manuscript, always after Latin lines; initials touched with red in some sections. |
Flourished Initials: | 10-line red and blue initial on f1; thereafter plain 2-line red initials (sometimes in blue instead, eg ff55v, 65v). |
Other Names (not owners): | Added lines at end plus initials 'RH'. 'Margaret Littler' and 'Lyttler' on f17v, right margin. On f78v, signature of Richard Grosvenor, 17th c. |
Further Information: | Kane's 1960 edition of Piers Plowman A text, repeated virtually without change in Russell & Kane edition of the C-text in 1997. |