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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 |