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Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 88

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Manchester Digital Collections
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The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • English MS 88
Biblissima authority file
Date
  • 2nd half 15th century
Language
  • Middle English
Title
  • Later Version Wycliffe Psalms (Psalms and canticles)
Agent
Description
  • Extent:
    74 folios (vii+74+iii) Leaf height: 170 mm, width: 113 mm.
    Binding:

    18th-century black morocco, tooled in gilt on the spine with the armorial of David Garrick.


    Decoration:

    Eight 6-line gilded initials on pink and blue grounds with white infill and with floriate extensions, folios. 1r, 12r, 19r, 25v, 32r, 40v, 48v and 57r. Numerous 2-line initials in blue ink with red penwork flourishes.


    Acquisition:

    Purchased by the John Rylands Library in 1908 from the London booksellers Bull &Auvache for £50; invoice dated 27 February 1908.


    Layout:
    Written height: 128 mm, width: 80 mm.
    Collation:
    Quires 1-88,
    Quire 9 two (98 lacking 2-7?),
    Quire 108

    Secundo folio:hooli man


    Script:

    Folios 1r-40v written in gothic anglicana formata by the first scribe.

    The hand changes at folio 41r-74v (beginning of quire 6, Psalm 81).


    Subject(s):
    Christianity; Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe; Religion; Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500; Bible--Manuscripts, English; Bible. Old Testament; Wycliffe, John, -1384; Garrick, David, 1717-1779
    Abstract:

    Later Wycliffite version of the Psalms and Canticles, with a notable provenance. (1) Psalms in the later Wycliffite version. 'Here biginniþ þe Sauter. Beatus uir. Blessid is þe man... (folio 74v, after Quicumque vult) Explicit psalterium.' folio 65v ends 'he schal speke' (Psalm 126: 5) and folio 66r begins 'speke þi power' (Psalm 144: 11).

    (2) folios 67v-74v, (a-f) six ferial canticles: (a) Confitebor. I schal knowledge to þee. for þou were wroþ to me...;
    (b) Ego dixi. I seide in þe myddil of my day...;
    (c) Exultauit cor meum. Myn herte fulli ioiede...;
    (d) Cantemus domino. Synge we to þe lord: for he is magnified gloriously...;
    (e) Domine audiui. Lord I herde þin heryng...;
    (f) Audite celi que loquar. ȝe heuenys here what þingis I schal speke...;
    (g) Benedicite. All werkis of þe lorde blesse ȝe to þe lord...;
    (h) Te deum laudamus. Thee god we preisen thee lord we knoweleche...;
    (i) Magnificat. My soule magnifieth þe lord...;
    (j) Nunc dimittis. Lord now þou leuest þi seruant...;
    (k) Quicumque vult. Who euere wole be saaf...


    Foliation:

    foliated (i-vii), 1-74.


    Format:
    Codex
    Material:
    Parchment
    Provenance:

    Robert Hay or Hey. Signature of 'Robert Hay' on folio iv struck through.

    David Garrick, actor and playwright. His armorial, comprising the monogram 'DG' surmounted by a falcon, stamped in gilt on the spine.

    John Hey 1734-1815, divine, Norrisian Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. Presumed to be in the Hey sale at Leigh &Sotheby, 29 May to 2 June 1815, but not listed in the sale catalogue. Annotated in pencil on folio i verso: 'at Leigh &Sothebys June 2d 1815. R.W.' [Roger Wilbraham].

    Roger Wilbraham 1744-1829, F.R.S., M.P. for Helston and Bodmin. Presumably purchased at the John Hey sale above. By descent to his great nephew George Fortescue Wilbraham (b.1815), sheriff of Cheshire. Armorial bookplate of George Wilbraham on front pastedown.

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    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
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    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
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    • England, probably Durham
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    • England, possibly Oxford
    • England (?Oxford)
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