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Title

New Testament in the translation of John Wycliffe

Other related names

• Wycliffe, John, d. 1384, translator
• Ross, T. Edward, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 201
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915517833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122691526
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1551783

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Middle English; some works in Latin

Origin

Date

late 14th to early 15th century

Place

England

Summary

Also includes poems and other scriptural, liturgical and devotional works.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Description taken from Josephine A. Koster's master's thesis on this manuscript (copy on file in the Library).
   
• Marginal glosses in Old English and Latin on ff. 42v, 46v. and 212r.
   
• The Middle English poem on f. 4r observes poetic lineation; T. Edward Ross erroneously concluded that it was "written in prose," possibly because of cropping that destroyed some line endings (A Catalogue of the T. Edward Ross Collection, pp. 27-28).
   
• The traditional prologue to the Epistle of James has been transferred to the Epistles of Peter. Ross mistakenly concludes that this prologue "is not found in any of the manuscripts examined by Forshall and Madden" (A Catalogue of the T. Edward Ross Collection, p. 28).
   
• The autograph of Gilbert, Bishop of Bath and Wells, appears on f. 1r. This office was held by two men named Gilbert: Gilbert Bourne, in office 1554-1560; and Gilbert Berkeley, in office 1560-1581.
   
• Thirteenth folio before the end has been partly cut out; final four folios are badly torn with loss of text.
   

Extent

239 leaves : 185 x 113 (146 x 85) mm. bound to 193 x 120 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i (near contemporary parchment) + 239 + i (near contemporary parchment) leaves; [i-viii], 1-54, [55-470]. Individual books of the New Testament paginated independently in a later hand.

Collation

I², II-XXVIII⁴, XXIX⁴ (-1), XXX⁵, XXXI¹.

Support

Parchment

Binding

16th-century calf, with a gilded design.

Layout

Written in two columns of 37 lines; frame-ruled in ink.

Decoration

Extensive use of red for headings and filigree; blue for initials.

Script

The text of the New Testament is written in a single hand. Many of the other portions are written in different hands, all varieties of Anglicana script.

Provenance

• Gilbert, Bishop of Bath and Wells (autograph, f. 1r).
   
• Gift of T. Edward Ross, 1947 (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Discipline
• Catholic Church--Liturgy
• Christian poetry, English (Middle)
• Devotional literature, English (Middle)
• English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500
• English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500
• Lollards
• Religious poetry, English

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, English (Middle)--14th century
• Manuscripts, English (Middle)--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 14th century
• 15th century
• Literature -- Poetry
• Private devotional text
• Christian
• English
• England
• Bible
• Biblical

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Table of contents

• 1 — Gospel of Matthew, p. 1