Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 137 | |
Title: | Piers Plowman |
Author: | Langland |
Contents: | Piers Plowman, A Version |
Language: | English |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
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. |