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 confirms 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.

System Requirements

Windows:
80486 processor with 8 MB 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