Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson poet. 38 | |
Title: | Piers Plowman, B version |
Author: | Langland |
Contents: | Piers Plowman B 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: | County : London/SW Worcs/Suffolk |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | iii+102 |
Pagination: | Modern pencil in upper right corner. |
Quiring: | 8s |
Catchwords: | In bottom right hand corner of verso in black ink and boxed in black. |
Page Size: | 290 x 205 |
Frame: | Pricked and ruled in drypoint |
Writing Space: | 200 x 125 |
Marginal Headings: | Passus headings in text column in rubric; Latin boxed in rubric. |
Table of Contents: | None |
Title by Scribe: | None |
Flourished Initials: | Initial letters at beginnings of passus are 4-line initials in blue with red flourishing. |
Other Names (not owners): | Thomas Hearne 1732. |
Further Information: | Benson and Blanchfield. British Library MS Lansdowne 398 is a two-folio fragment of this manuscript. |