Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 581 | |
Title: | Piers Plowman, B version |
Author: | Langland |
Contents: | Piers Plowman B 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: | County : London/SW Worcs. See Samuels 1985; Hanna and Duggan. |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | iii + 93 |
Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper right corner. |
Quiring: | 8s |
Catchwords: | In bottom right hand corner of verso in black ink and boxed in rubric. |
Page Size: | 185 x 265 |
Frame: | Frame ruled in drypoint |
Writing Space: | 130 x 225 |
Marginal Headings: | Passus headings in text column in rubric. |
Title by Scribe: | Title in rubric at top of f1r : ? de petro plowman. |
Flourished Initials: | Initial letters at beginnings of passus are 3-5-line initials in blue with red flourishing. |
Other Names (not owners): | Ralph Coppinger; T. Long of Dorchester; John Thynne. Nicholas Brigham. |
Miscellaneous Info: | Scribal Dialect: Worcs/London. |
Further Information: | Hanna and Duggan |