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., and Script: English bookhand.
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?, and 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., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, in a single hand: a leaf from the table of readings at the beginning or end of a Wycliffite New Testament. The text is from the Sanctoral, from the feast of the Purifcation to the feast of St. Mark.
Description:
Binding: Inlaid into a large paper leaf., Decoration: headings in red, capitals in red and blue., From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 36 lines., and Script: small gothic bookhand.
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 Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
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., and Script: rounded English gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Bristol Baptist College Bookplate., Gifford, Andrew,--1700-1784--Bookplate., West, James,--1704?-1773--Autograph., and 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., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Portions of a grammar handbook, including parts of a nominalium and rhetorical works (23 pieces).
Description:
"The recovery of a fifteenth-century schoolmaster's book": Beinecke MS 3, no. 34, Voights and Shailor: Yale University Library Gazette, LX, (1985) pp. 11-31. and Paper (watermarks similar in design to Piccard Fabeltiere 1342-48), each fragment 158 x 100 mm. Long lines ruled in ink or (in lexicon) 2 columns, unruled. Written in Anglicana bookhand. Signature of an early owner on what appears to have been the paper flyleaf of the codex: "Johannes carter est verus possessor huius libri." Boards from a binding.