Manuscript Description Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 851 | |
Title: | Piers Plowman |
Author: | Langland |
Contents: | Walter Map, De Nugis Curialum, anthology of Latin poems, Piers Plowman Z text with C continuation. |
Language: | English and Latin |
Datable: | Fratri Iohanni Monacho de Ramesey died in 1388, but Piers texts likely later additions. |
Date Range: | 1375-1400 |
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Dialect: | Z text Worcs (LP 7700), ff139-40 Suffolk/N.E. Norfolk, ff141-208 Worcs. |
Material: | Parchment |
No of Folios: | 209 |
Pagination: | Top right hand corner in pencil. |
Quiring: | Piers Z text quired in 8s; continuation quired in 6s, 8s and a single quire of 10. |
Signatures: | Traces of quire signatures, eg ff132-5. |
Page Size: | 180 x 240 |
Frame: | Ruled in drypoint |
Writing Space: | 185 x 125 |
Marginal Headings: | Passus numbers in form ‘passus primus’ in blank space at beginnings of passus. |
Table of Contents: | No table of contents |
Title by Scribe: | No heading for Piers Plowman |
Flourished Initials: | 2-3 line decorated initials in blue/red with red penwork at opening of individual passus. |
Further Information: | Brewer and Rigg 1994 |