| Summary: | William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the most important poems of the English Middle Ages. It is also a poem that gains in an exceptional way from the study of its manuscript sources. There is no need to emphasise what a vital part Piers Plowman has played in debates about textual criticism and editing during the last 30 years. The poem, in its three versions, has been the focus of intense and occasionally impassioned debate. The copy of Piers Plowman which forms the only contents of Bodleian Library MS Douce 104 is a version of the C-Text, and has its part to play in the debate. The present facsimile is the first of either of the two longer versions of the poem to appear for over 50 years.
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