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Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 82

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Manchester Digital Collections
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The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • English MS 82
Biblissima authority file
Date
  • 1st half 15th century
Language
  • Middle English
Title
  • Later Version Wycliffe Old Testament
Agent
Description
  • Extent:
    242 folios (ii+242+iii) Leaf height: 257 mm, width: 175 mm.
    Binding:

    Full brown morocco over wooden boards, 19th century.


    Decoration:
    Good 5-, 6- and 7-line initials in blue and pink with white penwork and floral infill on burnished gold grounds, with gilded bar borders on the five remaining pages where new books begin: 2-4 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Proverbs (folios 5r, 40v, 83v, 124r and 174r).
    Numerous 3-line initials in blue ink with red penwork infill and flourishes.
    A pair of ruled lines in each margin. The running title is between the lines at the top and the quire signature is in the box where the lines in the lower margin cross those in the outer margin on rectos. Elaborately framed catchwords: 'in god is al euer was and euer schal' is in the frame on folio18v. Grotesques and floral extensions grow out of the ascenders on the top line of some leaves, e.g. folios 107r, 109v, 110r.


    Acquisition:

    Purchased by Enriqueta Rylandsin1897 from , and later transferred to the John Rylands Library.


    Layout:
    Written height: 160 mm, width: 108 mm.
    Collation:
    Quire 110
    Quires 2-188
    Quire 198 lacking 4 and 5 after folio 149,
    Quires 20-258268 lacking 3-5 after folio 202,
    Quire 278 lacking 1 before folio 206,
    Quire 288
    Quire 298lacking 8 after folio 227,
    Quire 308
    Quire 318 lacking 8 after folio 242.

    Quires signed f-z, 7, A-E, H-O, in the usual late medieval way, except that the number of the leaf within the quire is written beneath the letter, instead of beside it.
    Script:

    Written in gothic anglicana formata


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

    Later Wycliffite version of part of the Old Testament, now containing only 1 Kings 28: 5 to Ecclesiasticus 16: 2, with numerous leaves missing between these points.

    Part of the Old Testament in the later Wycliffite version. Not in Forshall and Madden. A 'handsome and large-scale copy' (Ker) which originally contained the four books of Kings, the second book of Chronicles, and the five sapiential books on well over 300 leaves (the text goes straight on within quires from 4 Kings to 2 Chronicles and from 2 Chronicles to Proverbs) but contains now only 1 Kings 28: 5 'filisteis' to Ecclesiasticus 16: 2 'traueilis of hem', with probably 23 leaves missing between these points, including all between Proverbs 19: 4 'richessis' and Ecclesiastes 2: 6 'wode of' after folio 192v, where two quires are missing.


    Foliation:

    foliated 1-242 (modern foliation)


    Format:
    Codex
    Material:
    Parchment
    Provenance:

    According to Ker, 'No 83' at the head of folio 1r, on the left, indicates that the manuscript was once part of the library founded in 1684 byArchbishop Thomas Tenison 1636-1715 in the church of St Martin in the Fields, London: see the catalogue of 1786 by Samuel Ayscough (British Library, Add. MS 11257), no. 36. Sotheby's sale of Tenison's library on 1 July 1861, lot 12; sold to Lilly for Lord Ashburnham for£150.

    Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham.. Appendix no. 27.

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


    Condition:
    Folio 242r-242v is damaged. Many leaves are missing.
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