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Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1468, part III | |
| Title: | Piers Plowman |
| Author: | Langland |
| Contents: | Piers Plowman, A 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 : 4568; Grid : 567 283; County : Suffolk |
| Material: | Paper |
| No of Folios: | ii + 377 (paginated) |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper right corner. |
| Quiring: | 8s |
| Signatures: | Quire signatures in bottom right corner of recto leaves. |
| Catchwords: | None. |
| Page Size: | 210 x 290 |
| Frame: | Frame ruled in drypoint |
| Writing Space: | 160 x 225 |
| Marginal Headings: | Passus headings in text column in rubric. |
| Title by Scribe: | None. Begins defective. |
| Flourished Initials: | Initial letters at beginnings of passus are 3 line initials in blue with red flourishing. |