Description
Alternative title
Piers Plowman
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 64
Date created
[ca. 1375 - 1399]
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Material
Vellum
Layout
34 and 37 lines to a page
Height (mm)
250
Width (mm)
160
Collation
1 slip stuck on flyleaf, 1(8)-3(8) (5 canc.) 4(8)-7(8) 8(10) (wants 1).
Writing
in two rough clear hands
Foliation
ff. i-ii + pp. 1-128 + ff. iii-iv
Additions
The slip on flyleaf (iiv) has: God spede the plowghand send vs corne ynowgh.
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 293 is a copy of William Langland (c. 1325-c. 1390), Piers Plowman, dating to c. 1425. It is of the C-text version of the work but incomplete, and contains three drawings of heads by an unskilled artist.
- Contents
- Piers Plowman
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