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Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson poet. 38 | |
| 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/Suffolk |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | iii+102 |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper right corner. |
| Quiring: | 8s |
| Catchwords: | In bottom right hand corner of verso in black ink and boxed in black. |
| Page Size: | 290 x 205 |
| Frame: | Pricked and ruled in drypoint |
| Writing Space: | 200 x 125 |
| Marginal Headings: | Passus headings in text column in rubric; Latin boxed in rubric. |
| Table of Contents: | None |
| Title by Scribe: | None |
| Flourished Initials: | Initial letters at beginnings of passus are 4-line initials in blue with red flourishing. |
| Other Names (not owners): | Thomas Hearne 1732. |
| Further Information: | Benson and Blanchfield. British Library MS Lansdowne 398 is a two-folio fragment of this manuscript. |