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Date(s)
- 1300-1450 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 volume 6+ x 4+ in., 394 ff.; in double columns each of thirty lines vellum
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Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
An early folio has a note: "M. d. that after the death of Mrs Cottrell she beyinge the owner thereoff hathe gyven the same to Edmund Gryndall fellow off pembroke hall in Cambryge. M." A later Latin note follows, stating that the book afterwards came into the hands of one David Moris alias Hanmer, M. A., when he was in the house of William Cecil as tutor to his eldest son. In Feb. 1594 John Moris alias Hanmer, son of David, passed the book on to Edward Hughes, a Fellow of Jesus College, a former pupil of his father's, with the request that he should make a copy of it. Hughes later gave it to his college. The name R[ichar]d Murkeston also appears.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A Wycliffite New Testament; M. R. James's no. 47. Complete apart from the loss of one leaf containing text from the end of 1 John to the start of 3 John; includes high-quality ornamentation. The text consists of: 1) a table of "matters" of each gospel; 2) a lectionary, after the use of Salisbury; 3) the text of the New Testament, including prologues; 4) "Here eendith the apocalips of Jon ... And bigynneth the lessouns and pistlis of the olde testamente that ben red in the chirche bi al the yeere".