Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 89
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- English MS 89
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- Beginning 15th century
- Language
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- Middle English
- Title
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- Wycliffe Old 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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- Laurence William Hodson (1864-1933)
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- Former owner
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- Laurence W. Hodson
- Hodson, Laurence W.
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- Original form
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- The John Rylands library
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- Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899)
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- Former owner
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- Bernard Quaritch, Limited
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- Quaritch, Bernard (1819-1899)
- Bernard Quaritch
- Bernard Quaritch (b. 1819, d. 1899), bookseller and publisher
- Quaritch, Bernard, 1819-1899
- Bernard Quaritch, 1819-1899
- Bernard Quaritch 1819-1899
- Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), bookseller and publisher
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- Description
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- Extent:
90 folios (i+90+i) Leaf height: 140 mm, width: 100 mm.
Binding:
Bound by Douglas Cockerell in blind-tooled chestnut morocco over oak boards, single clasp, dated 1901.
Decoration:
Spaces were left for initials that were never added
Acquisition:
Purchased by The John Rylands library in 1919 from Bernard Quaritch, Limited for £50; invoice dated 23 October 1908.
Layout:
Written height: 105 mm, width: 68 mm.
Collation:
Quire 18,
Quire 22,(folios 9-10),
Quire 3-128
Secundo folio:þe secunde
Script:
Written in gothic textura
Data Source(s):
Description derived from N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. III, Lampeter-Oxford(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 412-13. By permission of Oxford University Press.
Subject(s):
Christianity; Religion; Bible Manuscripts, English; Bible. Old Testament; Bible English (Middle English)Versions Wycliffe
Abstract:
Parts of the Old Testament in both the earlier and later Wycliffite versions, together with a gloss of Daniel.(1) Parts of the Old Testament: (a) folio 1r-10v, Ezekiel, abbreviated, earlier Wycliffite version; (b) folio 11r-50v, Daniel, later Wycliffite version; (c) folios 50v-76r, Minor Prophets, abbreviated, earlier Wycliffite version; (d) folio 76r-90v, 1 Maccabees, abbreviated, ending imperfectly at 9: 39 'greet appairel and', earlier Wycliffite version. In (a, c, d) the scribe writes 'et cetera' at the point at which he omits words, for example 'and y siȝe visions of god. et cetera and of þe middil of it' where 'etc.' takes the place of Ezekiel 1: 2-4. There is no prologue to (b).
(2) folio 50r-50v, 'Glose of Daniel'. 'Here endiþ þe book of daniel and bigynne þe glose of daniel. The first visioun is of a stoon... is figurid in þis. Lyre on þe bigynninge on þe iie c' of daniel.'
Foliation:
Foliated 1-90 (modern foliation)
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment
Provenance:
Laurence W. Hodson of Compton Hall near Wolverhampton.
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- Angleterre
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- 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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