Wycliffite New testament.

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Title: Wycliffite New testament.
Contributor: Bristol Baptist College Bookplate.
Gifford, Andrew,--1700-1784--Bookplate.
West, James,--1704?-1773--Autograph.
Wycliffe, John,---1384.
Published / Created: [ca. 1400]
Publication Place: [England],
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of Matthew's gospel and the Book of Acts from the "Early Version" of the Wycliffe Bible by Nicholas Hereford and his collaborators. The final page of the manuscript is added in a sixteenth-century secretary script.
Description: Binding: early eighteenth-century full red morocco, gilt.
Decoration: large initials in blue with red penwork.
Detailed provenance history of manuscript in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on verso of initial blank parchment leaf.
Foliation provided by cataloger.
Formerly owned by William Brooke, Lord Cobham; George Brooke; William Lambarde; James West. Ex libris Andrew Gifford; Bristol Baptist College. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Layout: single columns of 19-23 lines.
Ownership inscription of James West, 1732, on recto initial blank parchment leaf.
Script: rounded English gothic bookhand.
Extent: Ff. [v] + [168] + [v] : parchment ; 110 x 70 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Format: text
Genre: Armorial bookplates
Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Bristol Baptist College Bookplate.
Gifford, Andrew,--1700-1784--Bookplate.
West, James,--1704?-1773--Autograph.
Wycliffe, John,---1384.
Subject (Topic): Bible.--English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe.
Bible.--New Testament.
English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

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Citation: A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Wycliffite New Testament. Takamiya MS 28.