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Piers Plowman, etc., 15th century, beginning

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MS. Laud Misc. 656
Held at the Weston Library

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  1. The Siege of Jerusalem
  2. William Langland, Piers Plowman (C-text)
  3. Sermon on Abraham
  4. Treatise on the Ten Commandments
  5. Biblical extracts

Dates

  • Creation: 15th century, beginning

Extent

127 Leaves

Language of Materials

  • Latin

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 656

Arrangement

Originally arranged and housed in 1641 at the Bodleian in Duke Humfrey’s Library, Selden End, compartment as ‘F 22’, 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. 1059

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. 656

Custodial History

Manuscript 2040 acquired by the Bodleian Library

Physical Facet

Medieval binding

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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