Piers Plowman Electronic Archive

FAIN: RQ-50490-10

University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA 22903-4833)
Hoyt N. Duggan (Project Director: November 2009 to May 2016)

Electronic publication of the early versions of William Langland's 14th-century English poem, Piers Plowman. (24 months)

We propose to complete and publish on the Internet the archetypal text of the B version of Piers Plowman and to draft the penultimate draft of the critical text of version B, also for free circulation on the web. Both critical text and the archetype will be based on machine-collated TEI-compliant transcriptions of the B witnesses. We will, moreover, prepare additional documentary and color facsimile editions of A and C manuscripts to serve as bases for the archetypal texts of both versions.

Associated Products

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive 7: London, British Library, MS Lansdowne 398 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson Poetry 38 (S.C. 15563) (R) (Book)
Title: The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive 7: London, British Library, MS Lansdowne 398 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson Poetry 38 (S.C. 15563) (R)
Author: William Langland
Editor: Robert Adams
Abstract: This CD-ROM continues the ongoing collaborative project devoted to the electronic publication of the medieval and Renaissance witnesses to William Langland's Piers Plowman. 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.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/piers-plowman-electronic-archive-vol-7-london-british-library-lansdowne-398-oxford-bodleian-library-rawlinson-poetry-38-r/oclc/144520538&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Secondary URL: http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewitem.asp?idproduct=10962
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Access Model: CD-ROM
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Ltd.
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781843840947

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