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Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Digby 171 | |
| 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 : 7330; Grid : 359 230; County : Herefords |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | 62 + 3 |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper right corner. |
| Quiring: | 12s |
| Catchwords: | In right hand corner of footer, not distinguished in any way. |
| Frame: | Drypoint frame ruled only |
| Marginal Headings: | Passus headings in Latin in the text column in text ink and same script, in the format: 'Explicit hic passus secundus; Incipit passus tercius'. |
| Table of Contents: | No title or table of contents. Text ends incomplete on f114r. |
| Flourished Initials: | Spaces left for decorated initials at passus beginning but not executed. Passus headings and Latin in rubric. |
| Miscellaneous Info: | Scribal Dialect Oxon LALME LP |
| Further Information: | Russell and Kane; Macray, W. D. 'Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues: IX Digby Manuscripts', a reproduction of the 1883 catalogue with notes on Macray's descriptions of the manuscript by R. W. Hunt and A. G. Watson, Oxford Bodleian Library 1999. |