Description
Alternative title
Gospels in English
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 2 + 163
Date created
[ca. 1400-1425]
Language
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Material
Vellum
Layout
double columns of 23 lines
Height (mm)
191
Width (mm)
122
Collation
a(2), 1(8)-20(8) 21 (three).
Writing
beautifully written in a noticeably narrow upright hand
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-165 + iii-iv
Research
It is no. 117 in Forshall and Madden's list: they date it at about 1430: it is of the later text.
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 440 is a fifteenth-century Middle English translation of the gospels with a table of the gospels for Sundays. It is a copy of the later text of the Wycliffite Gospels and was dated to about 1430 by Forshall and Madden, but recently to c. 1420 on the basis of its ornamental decoration.
- Contents
- Wycliffite Gospels in English
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