Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 293: William Langland, Piers Plowman

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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

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.

M.R. James Date	xiv late
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:qz299ph2008/MS_293.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:wd871dp7193/293.pdf
Contains	Title William Langland, Piers Plowman. 1-128 Author William Langland Note (79) The hand changes at quire 6 quire 7 ends (110) ffor al we ben breþeren þauȝ we be dyuersly clopyd Quire 8 begins (111) J take witnesse quod he at holy writ apertye Ends Explicit (128) ygan a wake Rubric (128) Explicit secundus et ultimus de dobett Note There are some odd rough pencil drawings, e.g. p. 113 Professor Skeat gives the following account of this MS. in his edition Vol. II, p. lxxii: xxxv. Text C, group e. Denoted by S. Imperfect, having lost c. ix 268 - x 194, c. xvi 80 - 156, the whole of Passus xvii - xxi and xxii 8 - 323. Yet the text is good
TJames	160
Stanley	R. 7
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/zf010vc1580
Location	MS 293
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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