Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 434
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- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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- MS 434
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- Date
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- 1375 - 1399
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- Middle English
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 434: New Testament in Middle English
- New Testament in Middle English || A dialogue in old English between a brother and his sister, in which the latter expressing her desire to be instructed in the faith, her brother translates for her instruction the epistles, acts of the apostles, and part of St. Matthew's gospel
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Summary: CCCC MS 434 opens with a dialogue between a brother and sister regarding the sister's desire to learn about the Christian faith, with the result that the brother translates for her parts of the New Testament. The book contains a Middle English translation of the Catholic Epistles, Epistles of Paul, Acts of the Apostles, and part of St. Matthew's Gospel. The text has been edited by Anna Paues, and is also in Cambridge, Selwyn Coll. 108.L.19. The manuscript dates from c. 1400.
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3-319 - New Testament in Middle English || A dialogue in old English between a brother and his sister, in which the latter expressing her desire to be instructed in the faith, her brother translates for her instruction the epistles, acts of the apostles, and part of St. Matthew's gospel
Note: Haec versio aliquantulum differt a Wicleviana, sive quod sit cujusdam alii, sive quod librarii, qui eam transcripserunt, semper ea usi sint libertate ut juxta proprium idioma emendarent
Note: 1r headed
rubric: (3) Maria, Ihesus, Iohannes
incipit: (3) God made mankynd aftir hys owne Image
Note: A break at xiiiir after
Note: (29) houȝ in þe ferste moneþ of
Note: Half a page blank. Continues xiiiiv
Note: (30) Suuster þre aposteles þat weren most priue
Note: The Catholic Epistles follow: Peter, James, John, Jude
Note: (76) Pauline Epistles
Note: (197) Acts
Note: (303) Matthew, ending imperfectly in vi 13 (The Lord's Prayer)
explicit: (319) but delyuer us of euyl. Amen
Note: See Forshall and Madden I xii
Note: Transcribed in 1882 for Canon W. Cooke, who possessed another copy (now at Selwyn College). The whole of the text is printed, mainly from this and the Selwyn College copy, but with the help of three other MSS. which contain parts of the text, by Miss A. Paues, Fellow of Newnham College, and Ph.D. of Upsala, in A Fourteenth Century English Biblical Version, Cambridge 1904
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