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New Testament in the translation of John Wycliffe Ms. Codex 201
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Abstract

Also includes poems and other scriptural, liturgical and devotional works.

Physical Description

Support: parchment; Extent: 239 leaves : 185 x 113 (146 x 85) mm. bound to 193 x 120 mm; Foliation: Parchment, i (near contemporary parchment) + 239 + i (near contemporary parchment) leaves; [i-viii], 1-54, [55-470]. Individual books of the New Testament paginated independently in a later hand.; Collation: I², II-XXVIII⁴, XXIX⁴ (-1), XXX⁵, XXXI¹.

Layout

Written in two columns of 37 lines; frame-ruled in ink.

Script

The text of the New Testament is written in a single hand. Many of the other portions are written in different hands, all varieties of Anglicana script.

Decoration

Extensive use of red for headings and filigree; blue for initials.

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Description taken from Josephine A. Koster's master's thesis on this manuscript (copy on file in the Library).

Marginal glosses in Old English and Latin on ff. 42v, 46v. and 212r.

The Middle English poem on f. 4r observes poetic lineation; T. Edward Ross erroneously concluded that it was "written in prose," possibly because of cropping that destroyed some line endings (A Catalogue of the T. Edward Ross Collection, pp. 27-28).

The traditional prologue to the Epistle of James has been transferred to the Epistles of Peter. Ross mistakenly concludes that this prologue "is not found in any of the manuscripts examined by Forshall and Madden" (A Catalogue of the T. Edward Ross Collection, p. 28).

The autograph of Gilbert, Bishop of Bath and Wells, appears on f. 1r. This office was held by two men named Gilbert: Gilbert Bourne, in office 1554-1560; and Gilbert Berkeley, in office 1560-1581.

Thirteenth folio before the end has been partly cut out; final four folios are badly torn with loss of text.

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

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Keywords
14th century
15th century
Literature -- Poetry
Private devotional text
Christian
English
England
Bible
Biblical
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

England

Date

Written in England; late 14th to early 15th century.

Binding

16th-century calf, with a gilded design.

Language

Middle English; some works in Latin

Provenance

Gilbert, Bishop of Bath and Wells (autograph, f. 1r).

Gift of T. Edward Ross, 1947 (bookplate, inside upper cover).

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Place of Origin

England

Date

Written in England; late 14th to early 15th century.

Language

Middle English; some works in Latin

Provenance

Gilbert, Bishop of Bath and Wells

Gift of T. Edward Ross, 1947

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

Also includes poems and other scriptural, liturgical and devotional works.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Description taken from Josephine A. Koster's master's thesis on this manuscript (copy on file in the Library).

Marginal glosses in Old English and Latin on ff. 42v, 46v. and 212r.

The Middle English poem on f. 4r observes poetic lineation; T. Edward Ross erroneously concluded that it was "written in prose," possibly because of cropping that destroyed some line endings (A Catalogue of the T. Edward Ross Collection, pp. 27-28).

The traditional prologue to the Epistle of James has been transferred to the Epistles of Peter. Ross mistakenly concludes that this prologue "is not found in any of the manuscripts examined by Forshall and Madden" (A Catalogue of the T. Edward Ross Collection, p. 28).

The autograph of Gilbert, Bishop of Bath and Wells, appears on f. 1r. This office was held by two men named Gilbert: Gilbert Bourne, in office 1554-1560; and Gilbert Berkeley, in office 1560-1581.

Thirteenth folio before the end has been partly cut out; final four folios are badly torn with loss of text.

Script note

The text of the New Testament is written in a single hand. Many of the other portions are written in different hands, all varieties of Anglicana script.

Decoration Note

Extensive use of red for headings and filigree; blue for initials.

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

References
Binding Images

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Spine

Keywords
14th century
15th century
Literature -- Poetry
Private devotional text
Christian
English
England
Bible
Biblical
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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