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William Langland, Piers Plowman ('B' Text), c. 1400

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MS. Laud Misc. 581
Held at the Weston Library

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Dates

  • Creation: c. 1400

Extent

93 Leaves

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 581

Arrangement

Originally arranged and housed in 1641 at the Bodleian in Duke Humfrey’s Library, Selden End, compartment as ‘E 64’, see Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, p. 14

Other Finding Aids

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, no. 987

Qu. Catal. ii (Laud)

Henry O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars secunda codices Latinos et Miscellaneous Laudianos complectens (Oxford, 1885, reprinted in 1973, with numerous corrections and additions, and an historical introduction by R.W. Hunt), Misc. no. 581

Custodial History

Manuscript 2037 acquired by the Bodleian Library

Physical Facet

Original cover was wrapper from a medieval law book

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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