Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 81
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- English MS 81
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- Beginning 15th century
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- Middle English
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- Earlier Version Wycliffe New Testament
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- Anne Danvers (14..-1531)
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- Former owner
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- Dame Anne Danvers
- Danvers, Anne
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- Edward Reynolds (1599-1676)
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- Edward Reynolds 1599-1676
- Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676
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- Lea Wilson (1802-1846)
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- Former owner
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- Lea Wilson, F.S.A.
- Wilson, Lea, active 1841-1845
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- Bertram Ashburnham (1797-1878)
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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
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- 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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- 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)
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- 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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153 folios (vii+153+xi) Leaf height: 270 mm, width: 192 mm.
Binding:
Gilt tooled green morocco, 18th century.
Decoration:
8-line initial in burnished gold on a red and blue ground on folio 1r;
7-line initials in the same style at the beginning of all other books;
numerous 4-line initials in blue ink with red penwork flourishes.
Acquisition:
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1897 from Henry Yates Thompson, and later transferred to the John Rylands Library. Accession no. R4995.
Layout:
Written height: 207 mm, width: 133 mm.
Collation:
Quires 1-188
Quire 198plus 1 leaf after 8 (folio 153).
Quires signed in red, a-v, in the usual late medieval waySecundo folio:nazareth
Script:
Written in gothic anglicana formata
Subject(s):
Bible. English (Middle English) Versions Wycliffe; Bible. New Testament; Bible--Manuscripts, English; Christianity; Religion; Autographs
Abstract:
Earlier Wycliffite version of the New Testament, without prologues. This manuscript was presented by Dame Anne Danvers to Syon Monastery, Isleworth, in 1517, and was used by Lea Wilson as the basis for his 1848 edition of the Wycliffite New Testament.
They note that this copy is the source of Lea Wilson's published text, The New Testament in English translated by John Wycliffe (see Bibliography below). The order is the four Gospels, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Pauline Epistles, Apocalypse: '... here endiþ þe apocalips. Blesside be þe holy trinite Amen'. folio 153v is left blank. There are no prologues.
Foliation:
1-153 (modern foliation)
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment and paper flyleaves
Provenance:
Given byDame Anne Danvers, widow of Sir William Danvers, to Syon Abbey in 1517: 'Dame Anne Danvers, widowe, sumtyme wyffe to Sr William Danvers, knyght, hoose soule God assoyle hathe gevyn this present Booke unto mastre confessor and his Bretherne encloosed in Syon... The aforseid Dame Anne Danvers hathe delyverd this booke by the hondes of her son Thomas Danvers on myddellent Sunday... m. fyve hundred and seventeene.' (folio 153v); she asks 'good mr Confessor of Sion wt his brethren' for their prayers for her family alive and dead: she names them individually, together with John and Thomas, servants of William Danvers, and Margaret Langford. Sir William died in 1504 and his will was proved on 8 May. His widow died in Thatcham, Surrey, in 1531, her will proved on 20 May.
Edward Reynolds 1599-1676bishop of Norwich. Inscription on folio 1r: 'Ed. Reynolds ex dono D. Guillelmi Simonson. Coll. Merton socii. Fowller'. Reynolds matriculated at Merton in January 1616 and graduated in October 1618; he was elected a probationer fellow in 1620, and was warden in 1660-1. William Simonson (d. 1651) was elected fellow in 1598.
Lea Wilson, F.S.A.Wycliffe scholar.
Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham.. Appendix no. 19.
Henry Yates Thompson.. He purchased the Ashburnham Appendix in May 1897 and almost immediately resold the manuscript to Mrs Rylands.
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