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- Record Id:
- 040-002088762
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002088757
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001490.0x00012b
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 35287
- Title:
- William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman (B version, Boffey 1459)
- Scope & Content:
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THE VISION of William concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Dowell, Dobet and Dobest. The "B" text: see Skeat's ed., Early English Text Society, 1869. Beg. "In a somer seson; whanne softe was the sonne / I shoop me in [to, interl.] shroudes; as I a sheep were." Dowell is headed: "Passus octauus de visione. Et incipit inquisicio prima de Dowell" (f. 36). Dobet and Dobest have no headings but "Passus xv." and "Passus xixus." respectively (ff. 69, 91 b). Colophon: "Explicit hie dialogus petri plowman. Penna precor siste; quoniam liber explicit iste"; and below, in another hand, "Explicit iste liber. qui obsecro transeat liber." f. 104.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002088757
040-002088762 - Is part of:
- Add MS 35283-35298 : Belonged to the collection of MSS. formed by Bertram Ashburnham, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (ob. 1878), being comprised in…
Add MS 35287 : William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman (B version, Boffey 1459) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002088757[0005]/040-002088762
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 35283-35298
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1395
- End Date:
- 1405
- Date Range:
- c 1400
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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D- E- N-: Owned (?): in 1545.
- Publications:
- The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English literature, ed. by Rita Copeland. 5 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012- ), I, 800-1558 (2016), p. 398.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Langland, William, c.1332-1400
- Related Material:
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THE VISION of William concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Dowell, Dobet and Dobest. The "B" text: see Skeat's ed., Early English Text Society, 1869. Beg. "In a somer seson; whanne softe was the sonne / I shoop me in [to, interl.] shroudes; as I a sheep were." Dowell is headed: "Passus octauus de visione. Et incipit inquisicio prima de Dowell" (f. 36). Dobet and Dobest have no headings but "Passus xv." and "Passus xixus." respectively (ff. 69, 91 b). Colophon: "Explicit hie dialogus petri plowman. Penna precor siste; quoniam liber explicit iste"; and below, in another hand, "Explicit iste liber. qui obsecro transeat liber." f. 104. Described by Skeat (p. xv.), and in close agreement with his text, though not one of the MSS. on which it is based. The passages printed within square brackets, from the Rawlinson MS. alone (see p. xii.), are omitted. The line giving the date of Chichester's mayoralty has thries [over an erasure] twenty" instead of "tweis thretty" (f. 61 b, Skeat, p. 225). Other peculiarities are the spaces between the paragraphs, and the word "cor" or "corec" at the ends of quires (ff. 8 b, 16 b, etc.). Vellum; ff. 101. About A. D. 1400. Initials and headings in red, and red lines enclosing the Latin passages. On the last page, among other scribblings, is a Latin couplet followed by the monogram DEN and date 1545. Formerly Ashburnham Appendix 129 (sale-cat. 1899, lot 77). 12 X 7 ¾ in.