Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 440: Wycliffite Gospels

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Summary
CCCC MS 440 is a fifteenth-century Middle English translation of the gospels with a table of the gospels for Sundays. It is a copy of the later text of the Wycliffite Gospels and was dated to about 1430 by Forshall and Madden, but recently to c. 1420 on the basis of its ornamental decoration.
Contents
Wycliffite Gospels in English

Description

Alternative title Gospels in English
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 2 + 163
Date created [ca. 1400 - 1425]
Language English, Middle (1100-1500)
Material Vellum
Layout double columns of 23 lines
Height (mm) 191
Width (mm) 122
Collation a(2), 1(8)-20(8) 21 (three).
Writing beautifully written in a noticeably narrow upright hand
Foliation ff. i-ii + 1-165 + iii-iv
Research It is no. 117 in Forshall and Madden's list: they date it at about 1430: it is of the later text.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xv early
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:jy789yx4102/MS_440.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:my887zt0352/440.pdf
Contains
Title
Wycliffite Gospels in English. 1r-163v
James
Gospels in English. 1r-163v
Note
(1r) Table of the Gospels for Sundays
iiv blank
(3r) Prologue to Matthew
Incipit
(3r) Matheu þt was of iudee
Note
(3r) Text
(3r) Both have nice initials in gold and colour, and partial borders of feather-work
(48v) Mark
(48v) Prologue
(49r) Text
(77v) Luke
(77v) Prologue
(78r) Text
(127r) John
(127r) Prologue
(128r) Text
(163v) Ends
After this in neat capitals of cent. xvi, partly erased, is: IOHN II LI stevyng
ff. 162r-163v blank
TJames 163
Stanley R. 10
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/sd407fb2560
Location MS 440
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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