Manuscript Description San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS HM 137 | |
Title: | Piers Plowman, C version |
Author: | Langland |
Contents: | Piers Plowman, C version |
Language: | English and Latin |
Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms. |
Dialect: | LP : 7250; County : Gloucs/Monmouth |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | i (early modern paper) + 89 + ii (early modern paper) |
Pagination: | Modern pencil foliation in upper outer corners recto. |
Quiring: | 8s |
Signatures: | Signatures of letter and roman numerals in usual place but visible in first quire only. |
Catchwords: | Same ink and script as text, some in brown ink frames. |
Page Size: | 286 x 185 |
Frame: | In red ink, 2 x verticals; 4 x horizontal (ff. 1-32v) enclosing top and bottom lines; then 33-89 have 6 x horizontal enclosing top and bottom two lines; pricking occasionally visible on outer edges. |
Writing Space: | 210 x 132 |
Incipits and Explicits: | On f89v 'Hic explicit passus secundus de dobest. Explicit peeres plouheman scriptum per Thomam Dankastre'. |
Marginal Headings: | Lemmata and Latin passages in red ink, textura, by scribe. |
Other Names (not owners): | John Meade owned in early 16th century (f89v). |
Further Information: | Dutschke, 1.183-184. |