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Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 104 | |
| Title: | Piers Plowman, C version |
| Author: | Langland |
| Contents: | Piers Plowman, C Version |
| Language: | English and Latin |
| Date Range: | 1422 |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 |
| Dialect: | Hiberno-English. Not mapped in LALME. |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | 1-112 |
| Pagination: | Top right hand corner in modern pencil. |
| Quiring: | 8s, with 2 quires of 10. |
| Catchwords: | Bottom right hand corner of verso leaves. |
| Page Size: | 215 x 148 |
| Frame: | Frame ruled in ink; no line ruling. |
| Writing Space: | 180 x 100 |
| Incipits and Explicits: | 'Explicit liber de Petro Ploughman/Anno regni regis henrici sexti sexto Et fir. Iouis/ante festum Michaelis Incept. |
| Marginal Headings: | Passus headings, Latin and some names underlined in red. |
| Miniatures: | 72 marginal miniatures. |
| Flourished Initials: | 3-line decorated initials at passus beginnings, blue with red background. |
| Other Names (not owners): | None. Arms of Sir James Ley (1550-1628/9). |
| Further Information: | Pearsall and Scott 1992 |