Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 79

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  • English MS 79
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Date
  • Beginning 15th century
Language
  • Middle English
Title
  • Later Version Wycliffe New Testament
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Description
  • 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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