Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 293
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- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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- MS 293
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- 1375 - 1399
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- Middle English
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 293: William Langland, Piers Plowman
- William Langland, Piers Plowman
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- William Langland (1325?-1390?)
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- William Langland
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- Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
- Langland, William
- William Langland (c.1330-1400?)
- Langland, William, 1330?-1400?, author.
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- Description
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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 :
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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