Manuscript Description Europe, Dublin, Ireland, Trinity College MS 213 | |
Title: | Piers Plowman, A version |
Author: | Langland |
Contents: | Piers Plowman, A-text, ff1-26v (separate quire), Wars of Alexander, acephalous and ateilous, ff27-66v; more accounts on f67, Latin tale or exemplum f68v, short prose life of Alexander, imperfect, ff70v-72r |
Language: | English and Latin |
Date Range: | Based on watermarks (see Kane's edition, p. 5, note 1), 1475-1500. |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Dialect: | County : Durham/Northumberland (LALME 1, 77) |
Material: | Paper |
No of Folios: | Flyleaf at front numbered i, bound sideways, monastic accounts, scribbles, signatures in various hands on both recto and verso + 72 |
Pagination: | Modern foliation 1-72. |
Quiring: | 126 2 [lost, conclusion of Piers], 312 (ff27-38) 416--4 (ff39-53, some bifolia missing since signatures run up to d viij) 514-3 (lacking leaf between 65-66 and another bifolium since signatures run to e vij) 66 (originally more, at least three stubs visible). |
Catchwords: | By the scribe. |
Page Size: | 220 x 145 |
Frame: | Drypoint left margin, uses chain lines. |
Incipits and Explicits: | Just the usual divisions like 'Primus Passus de Visione'. |
Marginal Headings: | By scribe, larger and bolder display script. |
Flourished Initials: | No coloured inks; headings and all Latin words in text are in large display script, bolder, sometimes decorated with strapwork. |
Other Names (not owners): | Names indicate it was at Durham Priory c. 1500 (Kane, p. 5). |
Further Information: | William Langland, Piers Plowman : The A Version: Will's Visions of Piers Plowman and Do-Well, ed. George Kane (London: Athlone, 1960), 4-5. |