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Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 323 | |
| Title: | Piers Plowman, A Version |
| Author: | Langland |
| Contents: | Brut; Piers Plowman A Version; Abbey of Holy Ghost; Ipotis |
| Language: | English and Latin |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 |
| Material: | Paper |
| No of Folios: | vi + 168 |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper right corner. |
| Quiring: | 12s |
| Catchwords: | In right hand corner at foot of verso leaves; decorated in red and flourished. |
| Page Size: | 200 x 280 |
| Frame: | Frame ruled in pencil |
| Writing Space: | 132 x 190 |
| Marginal Headings: | Passus headings in margins in rubric. |
| Table of Contents: | None |
| Title by Scribe: | None |
| Flourished Initials: | Passus beginnings marked with 3-line capitals in rubric. |
| Other Names (not owners): | George Duke; Francis Douce. |