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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.
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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.
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