(Q43641)
Statements
Piers Plowman
0 references
Langland, William, 1330?-1400
0 references
Figured initials--England--14th century
0 references
Decorated initials--England--14th century
0 references
Manuscript waste (Binding)--England--15th century
0 references
between 1385 and 1415
14. century
15. century
1385Gregorian
1415Gregorian
0 references
Extent: ff. 108 : parchment ; 189 x 253 mm
0 references
Title from printed catalog.
0 references
The flyleaves are the second bifolium of an 8-leaf quire from a manuscript of Chaucer's Troilus and Crisedye
0 references
Support: Parchment.
0 references
Script: Anglicana formata.
0 references
Layout: 1-138 148(4 was pastedown); in quire 8 the inner bifolium has been reversed, transposing ff. 60 and 61. Catchwords, that on f. 64v underlined in red. Quire signatures in center of first leaf recto in lead, in red ink, or in both; leaf signatures in arabic numerals, in letters or in vertical or horizontal slashes. Many of the signatures are no longer visible in the manuscript, but may...
0 references
Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 1, 9-line, in stipled gold infilled with white-highlighted blue and pink vines and leaves on a gold ground; C-shape bar and foliage border. Competent 5-, 4- and 3-line blue initials with red flourishing; occasionally faces have been drawn into the loops of the flourishes (e.g. ff. 10v, 17v, 23, 87v) or within the letter (e.g. f. 10v). On f. 26...
0 references
Corrector's marks usually in the lower outer margin as "cor.," but on f. 27 as "leg." Frequent erasures throughout the text, particularly of the names "peres" and "plouhman," possibly with the intention of rewriting them in red ink.
0 references
Assigned Date: s. XIVex.
0 references
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/15/2012.
0 references
Written at the end of the fourteenth century in England, and localizable by its dialect to southwestern Worcestershire (Malvern Wells or Upton area). A fifteenth-century owner recopied the first 4 lines of the poem on f. 108; another wrote on f. 107v: "Ihesu ihesu ihesu for thyn holy name to be me ihesus." "Dan John redbery," s. XV/XVI, signed his name on f. 108; another early owner, s. XVI or...
0 references
22 July 2024
0 references
22 July 2024
0 references