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Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 83

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Manchester Digital Collections
Library
The John Rylands Library
Shelfmark
  • English MS 83
Biblissima authority file
Date
  • End 14th/beginning 15th century
Language
  • Middle English
Title
  • Later Version Wycliffe Parablis of Solomon
Agent
Description
  • Extent:
    149 folios (v +149+vii) Leaf height: 98 mm, width: 66 mm.
    Binding:

    Gold-tooled red morocco, 18th century.


    Decoration:
    4-line gilded initial on a blue and pink ground on folio 5r;
    3-line gilded initial on a blue and pink ground on foilo 88r;
    numerous 2-line initials in blue ink with red penwork flourishes.
    Manicules on folios 7r, 10v, 12r, etc.


    Acquisition:

    Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1897 from , and later transferred to the John Rylands Library.


    Layout:
    16 long lines. Written height: 70 mm, width: 50 mm.
    Collation:

    Collation of folios 5-153:

    Quire 18
    Quire 26(folios 13-18),
    Quires 3-148
    Quire 158lacking 3 after folio 116,
    Quires 16-198

    Secundo folio:þou wiþ vs


    Script:

    Written in gothic anglicana formata


    Subject(s):
    Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe; Bible--Manuscripts, English; Bible. Old Testament; Religion; Christianity
    Abstract:

    Later Wycliffite version of Proverbs, together with extracts from Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, the Wisdom of Solomon and Ecclesiasticus, and quotations from the Bible and the Fathers.

    (1) folios 5r-88r, Proverbs in the later Wycliffite version. Not in Forshall and Madden. Headed 'þese ben þe parablis of salamon'. No prologue.

    (2) folios 88r-145v. Extracts from the later Wycliffite version of: (a): folio 88r, Ecclesiastes, extracts from chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 7-10, and all of chapter 12: 'and here suen a fewe textis of ecclesiastes. Weyward men... eiþer yuel'. (b): folio 92v, Song of Songs, 8: 6-7. (c): folio 93r, Wisdom, chapters 1-9 and 16: 29: 'Here sueþ a part of sapience fro þe bigynninge til nyne chapitris ben eendid'. (d): folio117r, Ecclesiasticus, chapters 1-3, beginning imperfectly 'þat wisdom' (1: 9), extracts from chapters 4-8 and 10-12, all of chapter 13, extracts from chapters 14-16, all of chapter 19, and extracts from chapters 20-3, 25, 27-9, 32, 33 and 35.

    (3) folios 146r-153v, Quotations from the Bible and the Fathers in 29 paragraphs: 'The wraþþe of god is turned in to merci to men þat forsakiþ synne... deeþ of soule'. Spaces for the 29 headings have not been filled: directions for the headings in the margins have been cut into by the binder.


    Foliation:

    foliated i, 1-160 (modern foliation). folios 1-4 and 154-7 are parchment endleaves. 1r and 157v were once pasted down; 'they come no doubt from the sixteenth-century binding' (Ker).


    Format:
    Codex
    Material:
    Parchment
    Provenance:

    16th-century inscription on folio 4 in 'a good bold hand' (Ker): 'This booke (honorable Syr) amongest others of great pryce wrytten in parchment. were preserved from the fyer in the tyme of the late kynge E. the vith by my stepfather and after by me new covered and reserved as holy reliques the others in latyne this in the olde Saxon English tongue wch I am bolde to presente to your vewe and readynge yf you can take delyghte therin.'

    Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham

    Henry Yates Thompson.. He purchased the Ashburnham Appendix in May 1897 and almost immediately resold the manuscript to Mrs Rylands.


    Condition:

    Foredge heavily trimmed, cropping many marginal annotations.

Place
  • Preferred form
    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • 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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