M.P.58KD.P.58I fo..ond there frer.es offM.P.58: The addition of off brings M into agreement with H. alle the foure ordres
Cr1.P.58KD.P.58 I found ther the fryers all the four orders
C.P.58KD.P.58 ¶ I fande ther freres · alle þe foure ordres
IG.1.58:This <I> is one of the capitals which indicate the beginnings of chapters. See the corresponding summary in the Table
of Contents at f.101v (the account of the second chapter of the first passus) and see also C. David Benson and Lynne S. Blanchfield, The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman: the B-version (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997), 133. The large capital is presumably intended to replace the inline smaller capital. For
large and decorated capitals at the beginnings of other chapters see Judith A. Jefferson, "Divisions, Collaborations and other
topics: the table of contents in Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.4.31" in John A. Burrow and Hoyt N. Duggan, eds, Medieval Alliterative Poetry: Essays in Honour of Thorlac Turville-Petre (Dublin:Four Courts Press, 2010), 140-152, esp.141-44, and for evidence suggesting that the majority of such capitals may
have been added by WH, see Jefferson, "Divisions", 148-50. This particular example, however, appears to have been added by
the original scribe at the time of writing; presumably he recognised his error in failing to leave a space for a larger capital.
R
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F.1.49KD.P.58/ [¶] I fond þere of þe freris / alle þe fowre ordris