Manuscript Description USA, New Haven, CT, Yale University, Beinecke Library MS Osborn fa.45 | |
MS Appellation: | olim Schøyen collection, previously John Holloway |
Title: | Piers Plowman (fragment) |
Author: | Langland |
Contents: | Piers Plowman (fragment) |
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: | Paper |
No of Folios: | 2 folios |
Pagination: | None |
Quiring: | n/a |
Signatures: | None |
Catchwords: | Lower margin of f1v, about 20 mm from right framing line ['to consiete (?)', following '...gold and grotes to gydderes.'] |
Page Size: | Originally roughly 240 x 175; now much charred on margins |
Frame: | Frame and ruling in pencil, often invisible/erased. No visible pricking. |
Writing Space: | 185 x 120 |
Marginal Headings: | By the scribe in red ink |
Flourished Initials: | One initial, two lines high, blue ink, with red penwork flourishing; penwork extends into the margin for most of the height of the page. Latin tags and headings in red. |
Miscellaneous Info: | See: Hanna, Ralph III, 'Studies in the Manuscripts of Piers Plowman', The Yearbook of Langland Studies 7, 1993. [Special thanks are due to Morgan Swan of the Beinecke for locating and providing information relating to this manuscript] |