Will's visions of Piers Plowman, Do-well, Do-better and Do-best : an edition in the form of Huntington Library MS HM 143, corrected and restored from the known evidence, with varient readings

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The work Will's visions of Piers Plowman, Do-well, Do-better and Do-best : an edition in the form of Huntington Library MS HM 143, corrected and restored from the known evidence, with varient readings represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Will's visions of Piers Plowman, Do-well, Do-better and Do-best : an edition in the form of Huntington Library MS HM 143, corrected and restored from the known evidence, with varient readings

Title remainder

an edition in the form of Huntington Library MS HM 143, corrected and restored from the known evidence, with varient readings

Statement of responsibility

[edited] by George Russell and George Kane

Creator

• Langland, William, 1330?-1400?

Contributor

• Kane, George
• Russell, G. H., (George Harrison), 1923-

Subject

• Piers the Plowman -- Criticism, Textual
• Christian poetry, English (Middle)
• Civilization, Medieval-Poetry
• Langland, William, 1330?-1400? -- Criticism, Textual

Language

eng

Summary

This definitive edition of the C Version of Piers Plowman presents the poem in its second, uncompleted revision. Its base is the text in Huntington Library MS 143, corrected and restored from the evidence of all known manuscripts of the C tradition to that of the first fair copy of the poet's revision materials. The correction and restoration are described in an extensive Introduction, and there is a full apparatus of variant readings

Member of

• Piers Plowman : the C version
• Piers the Plowman

Cataloging source

UkLiU

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR2010

LC item number

.K3 1988 vol.3

Literary form

non fiction