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Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Digby 102 | |
| 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 : 7770; Grid : 387 243; County : SW Worcs/London |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | iiii+141 |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper right corner. |
| Quiring: | 8s |
| Catchwords: | In bottom right hand corner of verso in black ink and encircled with a squiggly line. Words crossed out in rubric. |
| Frame: | Frame ruled in drypoint |
| Marginal Headings: | Passus headings in text column in rubric; Latin underlined in rubric. |
| Title by Scribe: | None. Begins defective. |
| Flourished Initials: | Initial letters at beginnings of passus are 2-line initials in blue with red flourishing. Lines written as prose with red virgules to mark individual lines. |
| Further Information: | Barr : 2009; 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. |