This page supplies links and bibliographic references to online and printed images of manuscripts of Piers Plowman. Manuscripts are listed in alphabetical order by location and shelfmark. Sigla are those of the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive.
I aim to list all full facsimiles. For texts not yet reproduced in full in a publicly distributed facsimile, I note representative images of individual leaves. In such cases preference is given to IIIF sources and digital reproductions served out by the holding institution. Web sources are linked directly. For printed sources, links are to bibliographic details hosted on zotero. Illustrations published in The Yearbook of Langland Studies are referenced by volume and page.
Corrections and additions are welcome.
- Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 733B (N): National Library of Wales (entire) |
- Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 4325 (Q): Middle English Scribes (fol. 45r) |
- Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.1.17 (C): Middle English Scribes (fol. 1r) | Benson and Blanchfield 1997 (fol. 5r) |
- Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Dd.3.13 (Gc): Middle English Scribes (fol. 49r) |
- Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.5.35 (Fc): Middle English Scribes (fol. 72v) | Wood 2022, p. 62 (fol. 116v) |
- Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.31 (G): PPEA (entire) |
- Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, MS Ll.4.14 (C2): Middle English Scribes (fol. 32v) | YLS 8, p. 68 (fol. 36v) | Benson and Blanchfield 1997 (fol. 59r) |
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 293 (Sc): Parker Library on the Web (entire) |
- Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 669/646 (Ca): Middle English Scribes (p. 210) |
- Cambridge, Newnham College, MS 4 (Y): Middle English Scribes (fol. 35r) |
- Cambridge, Pembroke College, MS 312 frag. C/6 (Pa): Middle English Scribes (fol. 1r) |
- Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (W): PPEA (entire) | Wren Digital Library (entire) | Matsushita 2010 (entire) |
- Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.14 (T): Wren Digital Library (entire) |
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 212 (Vc): Middle English Scribes (fol. 88v) | Scattergood 2021, plate 4 (fol. 89v) |
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 213 (E): Middle English Scribes (fol. 8v) |
- Liverpool, University Library, MS F.4.8 (Ch): Liverpool University (entire) |
- London, British Library, MS Additional 10574 (Bm): Middle English Scribes (fol. 60v) |
- London, British Library, MS Additional 34779 (P2): Middle English Scribes (fol. 34r) |
- London, British Library, MS Additional 35157 (Uc): BL Digitised Manuscripts (entire) |
- London, British Library, MS Additional 35287 (M): PPEA (entire) |
- London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A.xi (Cot): Middle English Scribes (fol. 209r) | YLS 24, p. 65 (fol. 180r) |
- London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian B.xvi (Mc): Middle English Scribes (fol. 51v) |
- London, British Library, MS Harley 2376 (Nc): BL Digitised Manuscripts (entire) |
- London, British Library, MS Harley 3954 (H): BL Digitised Manuscripts (entire) |
- London, British Library, MS Harley 6041 (H2): BL Digitised Manuscripts (entire) |
- London, British Library, MS Harley 875 (Ha): Middle English Scribes (fol. 22r) |
- London, British Library, MS Lansdowne 398 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson Poetry 38 (R): PPEA (entire) |
- London, British Library, MS Royal 18.B.xvii (Rc): Middle English Scribes (fol. 14r) |
- London, British Library, MS Sloane 2578 (Jb): Middle English Scribes (fol. 107v) |
- London, British Library, MS Sloane 2578 (Sb): None found |
- London, Lincoln's Inn Library, MS Hale 150 (La): Middle English Scribes (fol. 109r) |
- London, Society of Antiquaries, MS 687 (Ma): Middle English Scribes (p. 480) |
- London, University of London Library, MS S.L. V.17 (Ac): Bloomsbury Medieval Studies (entire) |
- London, University of London Library, MS S.L. V.88 (I): Middle English Scribes (fol. 93r) | Kerby-Fulton et al. 2012, p. 69 (fol. 25v) |
- New Haven, Beinecke Library, MS Osborn fa45 (Hc): Yale University Digital Collections (entire) |
- New Haven, Beinecke Library, MS Takamiya 23 (S): Yale University Digital Collections (entire) |
- New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M 818 (J): None found |
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1468 (A): Middle English Scribes (p. 310) |
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 814 (Bo): Middle English Scribes (fol. 37r) |
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 851 (Z): Digital Bodleian (entire) | Brewer and Rigg 1994 (fols 124r-140v) | Matsushita 2008 (fols 124r-140v) |
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 102 (Yc): YLS 24, p. 93 (fol. 9v) | Middle English Scribes (fol. 11r) | Digital Bodleian (fol. 11v) | Wakelin 2018, p. 143 (fol. 53v) |
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 145 (K): Digital Bodleian (entire) |
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 171 (Kc): Digital Bodleian (entire) |
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 104 (Dc): Pearsall and Scott 1992 (entire) | Digital Bodleian (entire) |
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 323 (D): Digital Bodleian (fol. 140r) | Middle English Scribes (fol. 109v) |
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. a. 1 (V): Digital Bodleian (entire) | Doyle 1987 (entire) | Scase 2011 (entire) |
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 656 (Ec): None found |
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 581 (L): PPEA (entire) |
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. poet. 137 (Ra): Digital Bodleian (entire) |
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Wood donat. 7 (Wb): None found |
- Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 201 (F): PPEA (entire) | Digital Bodleian (entire) |
- Oxford, Oriel College, MS 79 (O): PPEA (entire) |
- Oxford, University College, MS 45 (U): Middle English Scribes (fols 17r, 32r) |
- San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 114 (Ht): Huntington Digital Library (entire) |
- San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 128 (Hm, Hm2): PPEA (entire) | Huntington Digital Library (entire) |
- San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 137 (P): Huntington Digital Library (entire) |
- San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 143 (X): Huntington Digital Library (entire) | Chambers 1936 (entire) | Matsushita 2010 (entire) |
- unknown, olim the Duke of Westminster's manuscript (Wa): None found |