The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. XXXX: <list type="simple"> <item>San Marino, Huntington Library, MS 143 (X<hi rend="sup">2</hi>)</item> </list> William Langland Edited by Patricia R. Bart & Michael Calabrese Associate Editor: M. Gail Duggan Linguistic Description: Thorlac Turville-Petre Graduate Research Assistants Paula D. Briski John Ivor Carlson Paul Gaffney Timothy Stinson Keicy Tolbert Undergraduate Research Assistants Katie R. Sorensen Jenna Suchyta Camden Gray Turner Computer Consultants and Programmers Paul Broyles Benjamin Burnett Daniel Pitti Joshua Withee SEENET Raleigh, NC ISBN: XXXX

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 San Marino, Huntington Library, MS 143 (X<hi rend="sup">2</hi>)

XXXX XXXX XXXX late 14th or early 15th century Source copy consulted: San Marino, Huntington Library, MS 143 (X2)

Attribute Values brown ink anglicana bastarda italic Lombard Cap ornamented capital, N lines high rubricated touched in red textura underlined underlined in red green ink blue ink

Latin French German 7 October 2024 Editor Patricia R. Bart Parsed and files set up. In a somersomeressomerus X2.P.1: We transcribe somer. Nonetheless, we do detect an ambiguous mark which could be a suspension for -es, which would render someres, witnessed in B manuscripts HmG and C manuscripts QSc. The lack of any other word-terminal <r> in the fragment makes it impossible to determine with certainty whether the scribe had a habit of adding an otiose flourish to the letter. sesoun whan softeset was þe sunne Y schopshapedschep X2.P.2: In explaining the "shrub" variant in this line, which is the majority reading in C, Schmidt understands schop here in MED shapen, sense 6, "to betake oneself," as do we. me tointoinvnderininto a schrobbeforms of: (þe) schrobbesschreggesa shroudshroudes X2.P.2: This corrupt variant, which is the dominant reading in the C manuscripts, also appears in the A tradition. Schmidt (2011) attributes its presence in A to contanmination "from a copy of the C family p (and also in B-Cr)" (p. 305, n. to line 2). One of the A witnesses to a form of "shrub" (K), is an AC splice, suggesting that Schmidt's assertion of C-text p branch contamination is more than speculation. as y a schepshepherde were In habite ofas an Ermyte vnholy of werkes WenteY wentewente Iwende I& wenteWendY wenteWente iIch wende forthwydewydenewide[defective] X2.P.4: The reading forth appears only in C version manuscripts—strong evidence that this fragment belongs to the C tradition. inþein þein þisinto þe world wondres