Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 147

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 147
    • CCCC MS 147
    • MS 147
    • Parker Library MS 147
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : English, Middle (1100-1500)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1400 - 1499
  • Script :
    • by several scribes
  • Support Material : Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 454
  • Dimensions :
    • 200 x 310
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 60 and 59 lines
    • ff. i-ii + 1-454 + iii-iv
    • 1(12) 2(12) (wants 12) 3(12)-25(12) 26(10) 27(12)-31(12) (+1) | 32(8) (wants 7) 33(12) 34(12) 35(8) 36(12)-39(12) (wants 4, 11, 12).

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Contents

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Résumé : MS 147, dating to c. 1410-1430, contains the 'Later Version' of the Lollard translation of the Bible into Middle English but represents an early copy of this version, written before 1430. This manuscript is one of fifteen complete Wycliffite Bibles of the Later Version and one of only four which include the prologue to the Bible.


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    Langue(s) des textes : anglais


    1r-454v - Wycliffite Bible (Later Version) || Bible in English.

    Note : (1r) Prologue

    Note : (18v) Tables of Epistles and Gospels

    Note : (24r) Genesis - 2 Paralipomenon, Prayer of Manasses

    Note : Five leaves in Judith, Esther and Job have been removed and replaced

    Note : Psalms, Proverbs - Ecclesiasticus, Prophets, Maccabees

    Note : (371r) Evangelia

    Note : (410r) Pauline Epistles

    Note : Acts, Catholic Epistles. A leaf gone in 1, 2 Peter

    Note : Apocalypse ends imperfectly in xxi 18

    explicit : (454v) Of þe stoon iaspis and

Notes

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Additions: There are marginal notes on the prologue by Geoffrey Blithe, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1503-33), adverse to Wycliffe. See especially ff. 14v, 15r: on the latter page is a Parkerian note: This is the hand of notes of Galfride Blith sum-time Busshop of Lich. and Couentry as before.

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