Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 245: New Testament in English

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Summary: CCCC MS 245 is an early sixteenth-century volume containing the New Testament in English. It has no known association with Matthew Parker; but a hand-written addition to a college-owned copy of the Stanley catalogue records this manuscript was donated to the college in 1745 by John Duncombe (1729-86). Duncombe was an undergraduate and later Fellow of Corpus Christi who went on to combine his career in the church with life as a celebrated critic and poet. Duncombe frequently contributed to The Gentleman's Magazine under the pseudonym 'Crito' and enjoyed success with his poem An Evening's Contemplation in a College, a burlesque of Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Perhaps the quatrains at the end of each gospel in this manuscript are Duncombe's early attempts at poetic expression.
Contents: New Testament in English

Alternative title	New Testament in English
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. cir. 400
Date created	[ca. 1500 - 1599]
Language	English
Material	Paper
Layout	29, 44 etc. lines to a page
Height (mm)	169
Width (mm)	131
Writing	very neatly written in imitation of black-letter printing
Foliation	ff. a + i-iii + 1-304 + iv-vi
Provenance	Added in manuscript in the College copy of Stanley's Catalogue, with the note: Ex dono Mri Duncomb: 1745. John Duncombe became Fellow in 1751 and died in 1786., On a blank leaf (f. 194v) at the end of Acts is: 1570. IHon HAYES. His initials are also on an ornamental frame decorated with the Royal arms, enclosing a list of the Epistles, etc.

M.R. James Date	xvi
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:ys007sr6091/MS_245.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kk225mb5171/245.pdf
Contains	Title New Testament in English. 1r-304r James New Testament in English. 1r-304r Note At the end of each Gospel is a quatrain (f. 54r; f. 89r; f. 136v), e.g.: f. 162v So Iohn hath thus his endeThe Actes of the Apostles are next setThe whiche in ordre ye shall haue Yf god geue us no let (302r) At the end of the Revelation: Here is the ende of that be sureThe text of S. Johns RevelacionThe whiche euer shall endureWhen the worlde is paste and gone Table of Epistles and Gospels follows (ff. 302v-304r) f. 54v, f. 137r, ff. 194v - 197r blank
TJames	vac.
Stanley	Lib. ab Al. 48
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/np697hc2819
Location	MS 245
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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