Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 245

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Summary: CCCC MS 245 is an early sixteenth-century volume containing the New Testament in English. It has no known association with Matthew Parker; but a hand-written addition to a college-owned copy of the Stanley catalogue records this manuscript was donated to the college in 1745 by John Duncombe (1729-86). Duncombe was an undergraduate and later Fellow of Corpus Christi who went on to combine his career in the church with life as a celebrated critic and poet. Duncombe frequently contributed to The Gentleman's Magazine under the pseudonym 'Crito' and enjoyed success with his poem An Evening's Contemplation in a College, a burlesque of Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Perhaps the quatrains at the end of each gospel in this manuscript are Duncombe's early attempts at poetic expression.

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1r-304r - New Testament in English || New Testament in English

Note: At the end of each Gospel is a quatrain (f. 54r; f. 89r; f. 136v), e.g.: f. 162v So Iohn hath thus his endeThe Actes of the Apostles are next setThe whiche in ordre ye shall haue Yf god geue us no let

Note: (302r) At the end of the Revelation: Here is the ende of that be sureThe text of S. Johns RevelacionThe whiche euer shall endureWhen the worlde is paste and gone

Note: Table of Epistles and Gospels follows (ff. 302v-304r)

Note: f. 54v, f. 137r, ff. 194v - 197r blank

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