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Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 137 | |
| Title: | Piers Plowman |
| Author: | Langland |
| Contents: | Piers Plowman, A Version |
| Language: | English |
| Scribal Hands: | Examples of the hand. Click on the link above for full details and images of individual letter forms.                 |
| Dialect: | Sussex LALME LP5690 |
| Material: | Parchment |
| No of Folios: | vi + 46 |
| Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper right corner. |
| Quiring: | 8s |
| Catchwords: | In right hand corner of footer. No decoration. |
| Page Size: | 240 x 150 |
| Frame: | Drypoint frame and lines. |
| Writing Space: | 190 x 100 |
| Incipits and Explicits: | 'Hic incipit liber qui uocatur pers plowman prologus'. Ends; 'Explicit do wel' |
| Marginal Headings: | Passus headings and Latin in rubric. Opening initials of individual passus in rubric. Passus headings in Latin in the text column, in the format: 'Passus tercius de visione'. |
| Further Information: | Kane, 1960. Horobin, 2005. |