Piers Plowman

Description

Title: Piers Plowman
Creator: Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
Abstract: Fragment, on vellum, of Piers Plowman, produced in Anglicana book script in Oxford or London at the beginning of the 15th century. The bifolium includes Passus II, line 200 to Passus III, line 44; and Passus IV, lines 123-174
Description: In Middle English.
The fragment was discovered during renovations in the Old Vicarage, Wickhambrook, Suffolk.
Schøyen MS 1953.
Provenance: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, 2005.
Extent: 1 27 cm. x 20 cm. item (2 f.) ;
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
Subject (Topic): Poetry
Middle English poetry
Subjects: Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
Poetry > Early works to 1800
Middle English poetry
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: William Langland, Piers Plowman. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.