Archive Reference (shelfmark): Egerton MS 617-618 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

1. Egerton MS 617-618

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 617-618
Title:: Wycliffite Bible, Earlier Version
Scope & Content:: A Wycliffite Bible, in the earlier version of the English translation produced by followers of John Wycliffe (d. 1384). The text is bound in two volumes, containing the books of the Bible from Proverbs to Maccabees (Egerton MS 617), and Matthew to Revelation (Egerton MS 618), although they probably ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1390-1397
Extent:: 2 parchment codices

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 617
Title:: Wycliffite Bible
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the books of the Bible from Proverbs to Maccabees in the earlier version of the English translation produced by followers of John Wycliffe (d. 1384). This and Egerton MS 618, containing Matthew to Revelation, probably once formed a single continuous volume. A further volume,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-1397
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 618
Title:: Wycliffite Bible
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the books of the Bible from Matthew to Revelation in the earlier version of the English translation produced by followers of John Wycliffe (d. 1384). This and Egerton MS 617, containing Proverbs to Maccabees, probably once formed a single continuous volume. A further volume,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1390-1397
Extent:: A parchment codex