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Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 656 | |
| 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 : N/A; Grid : N/A; County : N Oxon |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | 131 |
| Quiring: | 12s |
| Catchwords: | In right hand corner of footer, not distinguished in any way. |
| Frame: | Drypoint frame ruled only |
| Incipits and Explicits: | 'Explicit hic passus secundus; Incipit passus tercius'. |
| Marginal Headings: | Passus headings in Latin in the text column in text ink and same script, in the format: 'Explicit hic passus secundus; Incipit passus tercius'. |
| Title by Scribe: | No title or table of contents. Text ends incomplete on f114r. |
| Flourished Initials: | None. Spaces left for decorated initials at passus beginnings but not executed. |