diff --git a/core/modules/widgets/transclude.js b/core/modules/widgets/transclude.js
index fd32d86cb..2ec3d7364 100755
--- a/core/modules/widgets/transclude.js
+++ b/core/modules/widgets/transclude.js
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ TranscludeWidget.prototype.execute = function() {
 	// Set the legacy transclusion context variables only if we're not transcluding a variable
 	if(!this.transcludeVariable) {
 		var recursionMarker = this.makeRecursionMarker();
-		this.setVariable("transclusion",recursionMarker);	
+		this.setVariable("transclusion",recursionMarker);
 	}
 	// Construct the child widgets
 	this.makeChildWidgets(parseTreeNodes);
@@ -231,7 +231,8 @@ TranscludeWidget.prototype.getTransclusionTarget = function() {
 						this.transcludeIndex,
 						{
 							parseAsInline: parseAsInline,
-							subTiddler: this.transcludeSubTiddler
+							subTiddler: this.transcludeSubTiddler,
+							defaultType: this.transcludeType
 						});
 	}
 	// Return the parse tree
diff --git a/core/modules/wiki.js b/core/modules/wiki.js
index cd66288b4..6ae16a2b4 100755
--- a/core/modules/wiki.js
+++ b/core/modules/wiki.js
@@ -1029,10 +1029,11 @@ exports.parseTextReference = function(title,field,index,options) {
 };
 
 exports.getTextReferenceParserInfo = function(title,field,index,options) {
-	var tiddler,
+	var defaultType = options.defaultType || "text/vnd.tiddlywiki",
+		tiddler,
 		parserInfo = {
 			sourceText : null,
-			parserType : "text/vnd.tiddlywiki"
+			parserType : defaultType
 		};
 	if(options.subTiddler) {
 		tiddler = this.getSubTiddler(title,options.subTiddler);
diff --git a/editions/test/tiddlers/tests/data/transclude/Typed.tid b/editions/test/tiddlers/tests/data/transclude/Typed.tid
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c99664b59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/editions/test/tiddlers/tests/data/transclude/Typed.tid
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+title: Transclude/Typed
+description: Typed transclusion
+type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki-multiple
+tags: [[$:/tags/wiki-test-spec]]
+
+title: Output
+
+\procedure testproc()
+This is ''wikitext''
+\end
+
+<$transclude $variable="testproc"/>
+-
+<$transclude $variable="testproc" $type="text/plain"/>
+
+<$transclude $tiddler="Data" $index="testindex"/>
+-
+<$transclude $tiddler="Data" $index="testindex" $type="text/plain"/>
+
+<$transclude $tiddler="Data" $field="custom"/>
+-
+<$transclude $tiddler="Data" $field="custom" $type="text/plain"/>
++
+title: Data
+type: application/x-tiddler-dictionary
+custom: This is ''wikitext''
+
+testindex: This is ''wikitext''
++
+title: ExpectedResult
+
+<p>This is <strong>wikitext</strong>
+-
+<pre><code>This is ''wikitext''</code></pre></p><p>This is <strong>wikitext</strong>
+-
+<pre><code>This is ''wikitext''</code></pre></p><p>This is <strong>wikitext</strong>
+-
+<pre><code>This is ''wikitext''</code></pre></p>
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