Wycliffite New testament.

Description

Title: Wycliffite New testament.
Published / Created: [ca. 1400]
Publication Place: [England],
Abstract: Manuscript, on vellum, in a single hand, of a copy of the text of the "Late Version" of the Wycliffite New Testament, commonly attributed to John Purvey. The text begins at Matthew 4:14 but is otherwise complete. The volume concludes with a 12 page index of readings according to the liturgical calendar and the opening stanzas of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke in Latin.
Description: Binding: contemporary white doeskin over wooden boards.
Decoration: initials in red and blue penwork.
Ex libris Earl of Egremont; Boies Penrose; Boies Penrose II. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Layout: double columns of 57-60 lines.
Script: English bookhand.
Extent: Ff. 97 + iii : parchment ; 300 x 200 mm
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)
Latin

Format: text
Genre: Armorial bookplates
Decorated initials
Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Egremont, George O'Brien Wyndham,--Earl of,--1751-1837--Bookplate.
Penrose, Boies,--1860-1921--Bookplate.
Penrose, Boies,--1902-1976--Bookplate.
Purvey, John, 1353?-1428?
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. and Wycliffite New Testament. Takamiya MS 31.