Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 434

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 434
    • CCCC MS 434
    • MS 434
    • Parker Library MS 434
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : English, Middle (1100-1500)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1375 - 1399
  • Script :
    • clearly written
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 1 + 159
  • Dimensions :
    • 135 x 201
  • Codicological details :
    • 22 lines to a page
    • ff. a-b + i + pp. 1-254 + 254a + 255a + 255-320 + ff. c-d
    • 1 flyleaf, 1(8)-20(8) (wants 8). Old foliation incorrect but used by me.

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  • Résumé : CCCC MS 434 opens with a dialogue between a brother and sister regarding the sister's desire to learn about the Christian faith, with the result that the brother translates for her parts of the New Testament. The book contains a Middle English translation of the Catholic Epistles, Epistles of Paul, Acts of the Apostles, and part of St. Matthew's Gospel. The text has been edited by Anna Paues, and is also in Cambridge, Selwyn Coll. 108.L.19. The manuscript dates from c. 1400.


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    Langue(s) des textes : anglais


    3-319 - New Testament in Middle English || A dialogue in old English between a brother and his sister, in which the latter expressing her desire to be instructed in the faith, her brother translates for her instruction the epistles, acts of the apostles, and part of St. Matthew's gospel

    Note : Haec versio aliquantulum differt a Wicleviana, sive quod sit cujusdam alii, sive quod librarii, qui eam transcripserunt, semper ea usi sint libertate ut juxta proprium idioma emendarent

    Note : 1r headed

    rubric : (3) Maria, Ihesus, Iohannes

    incipit : (3) God made mankynd aftir hys owne Image

    Note : A break at xiiiir after

    Note : (29) houȝ in þe ferste moneþ of

    Note : Half a page blank. Continues xiiiiv

    Note : (30) Suuster þre aposteles þat weren most priue

    Note : The Catholic Epistles follow: Peter, James, John, Jude

    Note : (76) Pauline Epistles

    Note : (197) Acts

    Note : (303) Matthew, ending imperfectly in vi 13 (The Lord's Prayer)

    explicit : (319) but delyuer us of euyl. Amen

    Note : See Forshall and Madden I xii

    Note : Transcribed in 1882 for Canon W. Cooke, who possessed another copy (now at Selwyn College). The whole of the text is printed, mainly from this and the Selwyn College copy, but with the help of three other MSS. which contain parts of the text, by Miss A. Paues, Fellow of Newnham College, and Ph.D. of Upsala, in A Fourteenth Century English Biblical Version, Cambridge 1904

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