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Royal MS 1 C IX
- Record Id:
- 040-002105766
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00036d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165177948.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 1 C IX
- Title:
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Glossed Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (from Genesis to Job)
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the books of the Bible from Genesis to Job, in the later version of the Middle English translation produced by the followers of John Wycliffe (b. c. 1320s, d. 1384). Accompanying marginal glosses appear throughout the book, written in the same hand as the main text.
The manuscript was originally the first of three volumes. The second volume, containing Psalms to Malachi, is missing, while the third volume, containing Macabees to Revelation, is now Harley MS 5017.
Contents:
f. [iii] recto: a note by Sir Frederick Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum, concerning the third volume of the text, Harley MS 5017;
ff. 1r-23v: Genesis;
ff. 23v-42v: Exodus;
ff. 42v-56r: Leviticus;
ff. 56r-74r: Numbers;
ff. 74r-90r: Deuteronomy;
ff. 90r-101r: Joshua;
ff. 101r-113r: Judges;
ff. 113r-114v: Ruth;
ff. 114v-130v: 1 Kings;
ff. 130v-143r: 2 Kings;
ff. 143r-158r: 3 Kings;
ff. 158r-172r: 4 Kings;
ff. 172r-183v: 1 Paralipomenon;
ff. 183v-197r: 2 Paralipomenon;
ff. 197r-201r: 1 Esdras;
ff. 201r-206v: 2 Esdras;
ff. 206v-210v: Tobias;
ff. 210v-215v: Judith;
ff. 215v-220v: Esther;
ff. 220v-233r: Job.
[f. 233v is blank].
Decoration:
Puzzle initials in red and blue with red and violet pen-flourishing at the beginning of each biblical book and smaller initials in blue with red pen-flourishing throughout the text. Running titles and chapter numbers in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002105766 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 1 C IX : Glossed Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (from Genesis to Job) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0040]/040-002105766
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165177948.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1424
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 400 x 285 mm (written space: 320 x 185 mm), in two columns.
Foliation: ff. 233 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
John Theyer (b. 1598, d. 1673), antiquary, included in the catalogue of his library left to his grandson Charles Theyer (b. 1651): see Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), II, no 6397.
Robert Scott (b. c. 1632, d. 1709/10), London bookseller: included in the list of Theyer's library assessed by William Beveridge and William Jane in 1678, Royal Appendix, 70, no. 4, (see Warner and Gilson, Catalogue (1921), p. 15).
Charles II (b. 1630, d.1685), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: purchased from Scott together over 300 other manuscripts from Theyer's library.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library; added note by Sir Frederick Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum, concerning the third volume of the text, Harley MS 5017 (f. [iii] recto).
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal Books, in the Earliest English versions made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his Followers, ed. by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, 4 vols (Oxford: University Press, 1850), I, pp. xxxi, xxxv, xl.
E. M. Thompson, Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes and Sons, 1884), no. 36.
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), I, p. 15.
Mary Dove, The First English Bible: The Text and Context of the Wycliffite Versions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 18, 88, 90, 96, 99, 100, 156, 157, 163-64, 166, 167-70, 184, 210-16, 249-51.
Michael P. Kuczynski, ‘Glossing and Glosses’, in The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation, ed. by Elizabeth Solopova (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 346-67 (p. 349).
Mark Rankin, ‘Reading the Wycliffite Bible in Reformation England’, in The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation, ed. by Elizabeth Solopova (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 426-49 (p. 448).
Elizabeth Solopova, ‘Index of Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible’, in The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation, ed. by Elizabeth Solopova (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 484-92 (p. 488).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)