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Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 814 | |
| Title: | Piers Plowman, B version |
| Author: | Langland |
| Contents: | Piers Plowman ABC splice |
| Language: | English and Latin |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 |
| Dialect: | LP : N/A; County : London/N Gloucs. Contains a stratum of North Gloucestershire dialect according to Samuels 1985. |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | iii + 98 |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper right corner. |
| Quiring: | 12s |
| Catchwords: | In right hand corner of footer in text ink and often boxed. |
| Page Size: | 250 x 180 |
| Frame: | Drypoint frame and lines |
| Writing Space: | 185 x 130 |
| Incipits and Explicits: | On f92 in margin: 'explicit hic'. |
| Marginal Headings: | Passus headings in text column in black ink in higher grade of script, underlined in rubric: 'Passus septimus de visione vt supra & c.' |
| Table of Contents: | No table of contents. |
| Title by Scribe: | No title. |
| Paragraph Marks: | Alternating red and blue paraphs |
| Flourished Initials: | 3-line red/blue decorated initials at passus beginnings. Latin underlined in rubric. |
| Other Names (not owners): | John Thomas |
| Further Information: | Benson and Blanchfield. |