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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 440: Wycliffite Gospels

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 440: Wycliffite Gospels

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

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xv early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jy789yx4102/MS_440.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:my887zt0352/440.pdf
Contains
  • Wycliffite Gospels in English. 1r-163v
    James
    Gospels in English. 1r-163v
    Note
    (1r) Table of the Gospels for Sundays
    iiv blank
    (3r) Prologue to Matthew
    Incipit
    (3r) Matheu þt was of iudee
    Note
    (3r) Text
    (3r) Both have nice initials in gold and colour, and partial borders of feather-work
    (48v) Mark
    (48v) Prologue
    (49r) Text
    (77v) Luke
    (77v) Prologue
    (78r) Text
    (127r) John
    (127r) Prologue
    (128r) Text
    (163v) Ends
    After this in neat capitals of cent. xvi, partly erased, is: IOHN II LI stevyng
    ff. 162r-163v blank
TJames
163
Stanley
R. 10
Location
https://purl.stanford.edu/sd407fb2560
MS 440
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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License:
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