The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 143

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9879

Shelfmark:

mssHM 143

Title:

Piers Plowman

Author:

Langland, William, 1330?-1400

William Langland WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

between 1385 and 1415

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Middle English

Middle English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 108 : parchment ; 189 x 253 mm

Note:

Title from printed catalog.
The flyleaves are the second bifolium of an 8-leaf quire from a manuscript of Chaucer's Troilus and Crisedye
Support: Parchment.
Script: Anglicana formata.
Layout: 1-138 148(4 was pastedown); in quire 8 the inner bifolium has been reversed, transposing ff. 60 and 61. Catchwords, that on f. 64v underlined in red. Quire signatures in center of first leaf recto in lead, in red ink, or in both; leaf signatures in arabic numerals, in letters or in vertical or horizontal slashes. Many of the signatures are no longer visible in the manuscript, but may...
Other Decoration: Opening initial, f. 1, 9-line, in stipled gold infilled with white-highlighted blue and pink vines and leaves on a gold ground; C-shape bar and foliage border. Competent 5-, 4- and 3-line blue initials with red flourishing; occasionally faces have been drawn into the loops of the flourishes (e.g. ff. 10v, 17v, 23, 87v) or within the letter (e.g. f. 10v). On f. 26...
Corrector's marks usually in the lower outer margin as "cor.," but on f. 27 as "leg." Frequent erasures throughout the text, particularly of the names "peres" and "plouhman," possibly with the intention of rewriting them in red ink.
Assigned Date: s. XIVex.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/15/2012.
Written at the end of the fourteenth century in England, and localizable by its dialect to southwestern Worcestershire (Malvern Wells or Upton area). A fifteenth-century owner recopied the first 4 lines of the poem on f. 108; another wrote on f. 107v: "Ihesu ihesu ihesu for thyn holy name to be me ihesus." "Dan John redbery," s. XV/XVI, signed his name on f. 108; another early owner, s. XVI or...

Keyword:

figure initials

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

Manuscript waste

Christian life

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862110

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53252/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens