Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 79
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- English MS 79
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- Beginning 15th century
- Language
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- Middle English
- Title
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- Later Version Wycliffe New Testament
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- John Wycliffe (1330-1384)
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- Attributed name
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- Wycliffe, John, -1384
- John Wycliffe, -1384
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- John Wyclif?
- John Wyclif
- John Wycliffe (1320-1384), et al.
- John Wycliffe
- Wyclif, Johannes
- Johannes Wyclif (1324-1384)
- Wycliffe, John,-1384, author
- John Wycliffe -1384
- Wycliffe, John (-1384)
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- Lea Wilson (1802-1846)
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- Former owner
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- Lea Wilson, F.S.A., Wycliffe scholar.
- Wilson, Lea, active 1841-1845
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- Bertram Ashburnham (1797-1878)
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- Former owner
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- Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham.
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, earl of, 1797-1878
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- Ashburnham (comte d')
- Ashburnham, Bertram (1797-1878)
- Bertram Ashburnham
- Lord Ashburnham
- Ashburnam
- Comte d’Ashburnham
- Comte d'Ashburnham
- Quatrième comte d'Ashburnham
- Lord Ashburnham
- Bertram Ashburnham, comte d'Ashburnham (1797-1878)
- Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878)
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878, former owner.
- Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, 1797-1878
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
- Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham
- Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham 1797-1878
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of, 1797-1878.
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham Earl of (1797-1878)
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- Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928)
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- Former owner
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- Henry Yates Thompson.
- Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928
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- Henry Yates Thompson
- Thompson, Henry Yates (1838-1928)
- Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928)
- Former possessor: Henry Yates Thompson
- Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928, former owner.
- Henry Yates Thompson, 1838-1928
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- Enriqueta Augustina Rylands (1843-1908)
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- Enriqueta Rylands
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- Description
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- Extent:
240 folios (iv+240+iii) Leaf height: 165 mm, width: 115 mm.
Binding:
Tan calf, gilt oval centrepiece on each board, traces of two clasps, 16th century, rebacked.
Decoration:
Red and blue penwork frame around folio 2v.
5-line initials at the beginning of each book in red and blue ink with penwork infill and flourishes;
numerous other 2-, 3- and 4-line initials in blue with red penwork infill and flourishes.
Acquisition:
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylandsin1897 from Henry Yates Thompson, and later transferred to the John Rylands Library. Accession no. R4993.
Layout:
from folio 58r, 35 lines.
Written height: 117 mm, width: 85 mm.
Collation:
folios 2-241:
Quires 1-168,
Quire 17 2(folios 130-1),
Quires 18-308,
Quire 31 6
Secundo folio:gidere
Script:
Written in gothic anglicana formata
Subject(s):
Bible. English (Middle English) Versions Wycliffe; Bible. New Testament; Christianity; Religion
Abstract:
Later Wycliffite version of the New Testament.
Forshall and Madden, no. 159. They note peculiar readings by a second hand; Ker was unable to find more than a corrector's amendments of omissions. The order is Gospels, Apocalypse (folios 114v-130v), Pauline Epistles, Acts, Catholic Epistles. Usual prologues. folio 131r and v are blank before Romans, which begins a new quire. folios 239r-240v are blank.
Foliation:
(i-iii), 1-241, (242-4). folio 1 is a parchment flyleaf
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment
Provenance:
Lea Wilson, F.S.A., Wycliffe scholar.
Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham. Appendix no. 22.
Henry Yates Thompson. He purchased the Ashburnham Appendix in May 1897 and almost immediately resold the manuscript to Mrs Rylands.
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- England (United Kingdom)
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- England
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- Angleterre
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- Anglaterra
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- 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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