Abstract
This essay examines the career of John Cok, a Piers scribe and the copyist of Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 669*/646. It argues that a C-text extract (16.182-201a), copied by Cok into this manuscript, was deliberately excerpted from a complete copy of the poem. The essay also examines a second extract (C.16.116), which was added by Cok into the same manuscript. The essay asks what these extracts can reveal about Cok’s access to and response to Langland’s poem.
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