Piers Plowman, the Ilchester Manuscript

Item author: William Langland
Item date: 1400
(this is an approximate date)
Grant Value: 500
Item cost pre-decimal: 2000
Item date acquired: 1962
Item institution: University of London
Town/City: London

A very early C text of the poem, written in a good vernacular gothic book hand, initial capitals in gold, rubrication in red. Bound in 19thcentury red morocco. Illustrated as Plate 1 of AR

Item Provenance
The collection of the Earl of Ilchester, bought by Maggs Bros. for the University at the Ilchester sale , Sothebys, July 1962