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The "Piers Plowman" Electronic Archive, Vol. 1
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 201 (F)

William Langland
Edited by Robert Adams, Hoyt N. Duggan, Eric Eliason, Ralph Hanna, III, John Price-Wilkin, and Thorlac Turville-Petre


The first in a series of documentary editions of the "Piers Plowman" Electronic Archive

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About the Book

MS 201, Corpus Christi College, Oxford appears as the first in a series of documentary editions for The Electronic Piers Plowman Archive. An early scribal version of the alpha family of the B text of Piers Plowman, this important but eccentric text has sixteen instead of twenty-one passus, and contains about 170 lines not shared with the majority of other B manuscripts.

This CD-ROM supplies an SGML-encoded version of the text alongside color images of the original manuscript pages. The SGML version allows for structured and complex searches of the text itself and the manuscript's paleographic and codicological features. This version conforms fully with the 1994 Text Encoding Initiative guidelines. For users not able to use the SGML reader (which works on Windows/95/98/NT), there are HTML versions of the text and images.

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 1 is the first edition in the SEENET series.

Of related interest:
The "Piers Plowman" Electronic Archive, Vol. 2: Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B. 15.17 (W)

For further information, see Frequently Asked Questions about the technical operation of the CD-ROM, or write to Hoyt Duggan (hnd@virginia.edu).

Minimum System Requirements

Windows
80486 processor with 8MB RAM
Windows 3.1
Netscape 3.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0

For users who wish to run the SGML version:
Windows 95/98/NT

Macintosh
For users who plan to use the HTML version :
Any model Mac or clone capable of Internet access.
Netscape 3.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0