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Burney MS 30

Record Id:

040-002236366

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000055

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 30

Title:

Gospel of John, Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, Treatise on the Lord's Prayer, Creed

Scope & Content:

Gospel of John, in the later Wycliffite version, Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, in the later Wycliffite version, Treatise on the Lord's Prayer: 'The ferst axynge of the sevene peticions …' (ff. 86r-105r); Creed: 'Here begynyth the crede that the profetis seyde …' (ff. 105r-106v).

There is an offset of an illuminated initial on ff. v verso and 1r.

Decoration:

Plain red initials. Decorated catchwords.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236366

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 30 : Gospel of John, Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, Treatise on the Lord's Prayer, Creed

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0030]/040-002236366

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 130 x 90 mm (text space 100 x 65 mm).

Foliation: ff. v + 111 (ff. i-v, 1, 109-111 are flyleaves; ff iii-v and 1 are parchment).

Collation: i-vii⁸ (ff. 2-57), viii⁶ (ff. 58-63); ix-x⁸ (ff. 64-79), xi⁶ (ff. 80-85); xii-xiii⁸ (ff. 86-101), xiv^8-1 (8th leaf missing, probably blank; ff. 102-108).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of diced brown calf; the joints repaired.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Rev. John Price (b. c.1694 d. 1751): 'Johannes Price A.M. / Rector de Orleston 1727 / Vicarius de Halling. 1729' (f. 85v; cf. f. 106v, dated 1719, and f. 63v, dated 1730); Halling and Orlestone are in Kent.

'[...] 2.2.0' in pencil, second half of the 18th century?, apparently a name and price (f. iii).

John Brand (b. 1744, d. 1806), antiquary and topographer: his book-plate (f. 1v); probably in his sale starting on 6 May 1807, lot 36 among the manuscripts, bought by Burney for £2 16s.

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.

Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.

Administrative Context:

England.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1399&CollID=18&NStart=30].

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 6.

The Holy Bible ... 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, xliii no. 30.

E. M. Thompson,Wycliffe Exhibition in the King’s Library (London: Clowes and Sons, 1884), no. 58.

Conrad Lindberg, 'The Manuscripts and Versions of the Wycliffite Bible', in Studia Neophilologica: A Journal of Germanic and Romance Philology, 42 (1970), 333-47 (p. 334 no. 31).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Brand, John, Reverend; antiquary and topographer; FSA, 1744-1806
Price, John, Reverend of Kent, c 1694-1751
Wyclif, John, theologian, philosopher, and religious reformer, d 1384,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000116650647