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Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 851
 
Title:Piers Plowman
Author:Langland
Contents:Walter Map, De Nugis Curialum, anthology of Latin poems, Piers Plowman Z text with C continuation.
Language:English and Latin
Datable:Fratri Iohanni Monacho de Ramesey died in 1388, but Piers texts likely later additions.
Date Range:1375-1400
Scribal Hands:
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Dialect:Z text Worcs (LP 7700), ff139-40 Suffolk/N.E. Norfolk, ff141-208 Worcs.
Material:Parchment
No of Folios:209
Pagination:Top right hand corner in pencil.
Quiring:Piers Z text quired in 8s; continuation quired in 6s, 8s and a single quire of 10.
Signatures:Traces of quire signatures, eg ff132-5.
Page Size:180 x 240
Frame:Ruled in drypoint
Writing Space:185 x 125
Marginal Headings:Passus numbers in form ‘passus primus’ in blank space at beginnings of passus.
Table of Contents:No table of contents
Title by Scribe:No heading for Piers Plowman
Flourished Initials:2-3 line decorated initials in blue/red with red penwork at opening of individual passus.
Further Information:Brewer and Rigg 1994
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, King's Manor, York YO1 7EP