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Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 137
 
Title:Piers Plowman
Author:Langland
Contents:Piers Plowman, A Version
Language:English
Scribal Hands:
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Dialect:Sussex LALME LP5690
Material:Parchment
No of Folios:vi + 46
Pagination:Modern pencil in upper right corner.
Quiring:8s
Catchwords:In right hand corner of footer. No decoration.
Page Size:240 x 150
Frame:Drypoint frame and lines.
Writing Space:190 x 100
Incipits and Explicits:'Hic incipit liber qui uocatur pers plowman prologus'. Ends; 'Explicit do wel'
Marginal Headings:Passus headings and Latin in rubric. Opening initials of individual passus in rubric. Passus headings in Latin in the text column, in the format: 'Passus tercius de visione'.
Further Information:Kane, 1960. Horobin, 2005.
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