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Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 84

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Manchester Digital Collections
Library
The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • English MS 84
Biblissima authority file
Date
  • End 14th/beginning 15th century
Language
  • Middle English
Title
  • Later Version Wycliffe Acts of the Apostles
Agent
Description
  • Extent:
    124 folios (ii+124) Leaf height: 122 mm, width: 85 mm.
    Binding:

    Old bevelled oak boards re-covered in black goatskin; sewn on three tanned leather supports recessed into channels in the boards.


    Decoration:

    2-line initials in red ink at the beginning of each chapter


    Acquisition:

    Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1897 from Henry Yates Thompson, and later transferred to the John Rylands Library. Accession no. R4998.


    Layout:
    17 long lines. Changes of ink, but perhaps not of hand, at folios 72r (beginning of tenth quire), 104v line 7, 111r (beginning of fifteenth quire) and 122v line 1. Written height: 78 mm, width: 50 mm.
    Collation:

    Collation of folios 3-126:

    Quires 1-88
    Quire 98 lacking 1 before folio 66 and 8 after folio 71,
    Quire 108
    Quire 118 lacking 6 after folio 84,
    Quires 12-168

    Secundo folio:ke. and to hem


    Script:

    Written in gothic textura


    Subject(s):
    Bible. English (Middle English) Versions Wycliffe; Bible--Manuscripts, English; Bible. New Testament; Religion; Christianity
    Abstract:

    Later Wycliffite version of the Acts of the Apostles, except the portion 7: 31 to 10: 6, which is in the earlier version (folio 29v line 14 to folio 44v line 4).

    Forshall and Madden, no. 161. Three leaves are missing: folio 65v ends 'and from þens' (14: 25) and folio 66r begins 'syn vp' (15: 5); folio 71v ends 'spiritt of dyuy-' (16: 16) and folio 72r begins 'kepe ham' (16: 23); folio 84v ends 'to repreef: but' (19: 27) and folio 85r begins 'houris' (19: 34). Prologue, folios 3r-4r. In the part of Acts taken from the earlier version there are red headings in the text at 8: 5, 8: 14, 8: 26, and 9: 1, and the word 'eende' is written in red at 8: 9 after 'cyte', at 8: 17 after 'gost', and at 9: 22 after 'crist'. The headings are: (folio 34r) The thursdai pystil in witsone weke; (folio 35) Þe tewsday pistil in witsone weke and in commemoracyoun of the holy gooste'; (folio 36v) The fyrst þrusday pistyl after paske; (folio 38v) The pistyl of þe conuersyoun of seynt poule. The lessons at these points are those of the earlier Wycliffite version: cf. Forshall and Madden, iv. 688, 697, 687, 691. 'DEO GRACIAS' at the end, folo 125r. Folios 125v-126v are left blank.


    Foliation:

    foliated 1-126 (modern foliation)


    Format:
    Codex
    Material:
    Parchmement
    Provenance:

    Early inscriptions: 'W. B.' (folio 2v); 'Anthony' (folio 125v).

    Inscribed 'Tho. Miles The Gift of Mr Dyer' on folio 1r, 18th century.

    Lea Wilson, F.S.A, Wycliffe scholar. Described by him in his Bibles, Testaments, Psalms, etc. (1845)

    Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham

    He purchased the Ashburnham Appendix in May 1897 and almost immediately resold the manuscript to Mrs Rylands.

Place
  • Preferred form
    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • Anglaterra
    • Inglaterra
    • Engeland
    • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
    • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • England (Salisbury?)
    • [Oxford?]
    • [England]
    • England, Norwich?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
    • England, Cornwall?
    • England, St. Albans?
    • England, North?
    • England, York?
    • England, Witham?
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • England, Reading or Leominster
    • England, Cirencester?
    • England, Sherborne?
    • England, Worcester?
    • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
    • England, Tewkesbury?
    • England, East Anglia?
    • England, Peterborough?
    • England, Mercia?
    • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
    • England, Winchester?
    • England, Oxford?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • England and Netherlands
    • England, Canterbury?
    • England, West Midlands?
    • England, London?
    • England, Crowland?
    • England, Wessex?
    • England, Reading?
    • England, Northeast?
    • England, Southeast?
    • England, Ely?
    • England, Winchester or Hereford?
    • England, Salisbury?
    • England, Oxford or Salisbury
    • German (but made in England)
    • England, South East (?)
    • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
    • Hereford?, England
    • England, Durham ?
    • England, Durham?
    • England, probably Durham
    • England, Oxford (?)
    • England, possibly Oxford
    • England (?Oxford)
    • England, Durham (?)
    • England, London/Westminster
    • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
    • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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