Title Background

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive 7: London British Library, British Library, MS Lansdowne 398 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson Poetry 38 (S.C. 15563) (R), MS Rawlinson Poetry 38 (S.C. 15563) (R)

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive 7: London British Library, British Library, MS Lansdowne 398 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson Poetry 38 (S.C. 15563) (R), MS Rawlinson Poetry 38 (S.C. 15563) (R)

This CD-ROM continues the ongoing collaborative project devoted to the electronic publication of the medieval and Renaissance witnesses to WL’s PPl. The edition of the B-version manuscript known as `R’ is especially important because of its status as the only reliable witness for one of the two surviving branches of the B tradition. As is usual for the series, the edited text of the manuscript is presented in four different views — a diplomatic type-facsimile; a scribal text with indications of scribal error; a critical text with lapsus calami corrected; and an AllTags view that shows all of the editorial interventions on one screen — along with colour facsimiles and hyper-textual linkages to enable the display of the complex relationships to other B witnesses.(from the publisher’s website)

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