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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 814
 
Title:Piers Plowman, B version
Author:Langland
Contents:Piers Plowman ABC splice
Language:English and Latin
Scribal Hands:
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Dialect:LP : N/A; County : London/N Gloucs. Contains a stratum of North Gloucestershire dialect according to Samuels 1985.
Material:Parchment
No of Folios:iii + 98
Pagination:Modern pencil in upper right corner.
Quiring:12s
Catchwords:In right hand corner of footer in text ink and often boxed.
Page Size:250 x 180
Frame:Drypoint frame and lines
Writing Space:185 x 130
Incipits and Explicits:On f92 in margin: 'explicit hic'.
Marginal Headings:Passus headings in text column in black ink in higher grade of script, underlined in rubric: 'Passus septimus de visione vt supra & c.'
Table of Contents:No table of contents.
Title by Scribe:No title.
Paragraph Marks:Alternating red and blue paraphs
Flourished Initials:3-line red/blue decorated initials at passus beginnings. Latin underlined in rubric.
Other Names (not owners):John Thomas
Further Information:Benson and Blanchfield.
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, King's Manor, York YO1 7EP