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Wycliffite New Testament
Title
Wycliffite New Testament.
Created
England, [ca. 1400]
Physical Description
ff. i + 97 + i : parchment ; 284 x 180 (222 x 132) mm.
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Notes
Script: Written in a neat gothic bookhand by a single scribe who carefully corrected his errors; changes by at least one nearly contemporary and one later writer.
Blue initials, 10- to 4-line, with extensive penwork designs in red, introduce each chapter. Headings, running titles, and underlining in red; paragraph marks in red or blue.
Bookblock chewed by rodent in upper right corner; margins of many leaves trimmed resulting in some loss of text, marginalia, and catchwords.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Red spattered edges. Brown leather, flesh side out, blind-tooled. A black calf spine, gold-tooled, added.
In Middle English.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (nos. 7220 and 9302). Purchased by Henry Fletcher; his gift to Yale in 1944.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment (thick, furry) of the Wycliffite New Testament. Begins imperfectly in Matthew 3.4 and breaks off at 1 Timothy 1.15; also missing Romans 9.22 to 1 Corinthians 1.23 (2 bifolios lost after f. 73). Contains the Gospels without prologues, and the Epistles with prologues. The text has been altered in places by a near contemporary hand that has written over erasures. Since the alterations correspond to those adopted in the later edition of John Purvey, MS 125 may reflect an intermediate stage between the Wycliffite Bible and Purvey's version.
Publications
Faye and Bond, p. 32, no. 125. Exhibition Catalogue, pp. 216-17, no. 42. R. J. Menner, "A Manuscript of the First Wycliffite Translation of the Bible," Gazette 19 (1945) pp. 37-44, with pl. of f. 69r.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 14, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 125.
Wycliffite New Testament. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Wycliffite New Testament. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 15th century.
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