Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 293

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    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 293
    • CCCC MS 293
    • MS 293
    • Parker Library MS 293
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : English, Middle (1100-1500)
  • Author : William Langland (1325?-1390?)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1375 - 1399
  • Script :
    • in two rough clear hands
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 64
  • Dimensions :
    • 160 x 250
  • Codicological details :
    • 34 and 37 lines to a page
    • ff. i-ii + pp. 1-128 + ff. iii-iv
    • 1 slip stuck on flyleaf, 1(8)-3(8) (5 canc.) 4(8)-7(8) 8(10) (wants 1).

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Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : 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.


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    Langue(s) des textes : anglais


    Intervenants :

    William Langland - author

    1-128 - William Langland, Piers Plowman

    Note : (79) The hand changes at quire 6

    Note : quire 7 ends

    Note : (110) ffor al we ben breþeren þauȝ we be dyuersly clopyd

    Note : Quire 8 begins

    Note : (111) J take witnesse quod he at holy writ apertye

    Note : 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

    Note : 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

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  • Additions: The slip on flyleaf (iiv) has: God spede the plowghand send vs corne ynowgh.

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