Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 434: New Testament in Middle English

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Summary
CCCC MS 434 opens with a dialogue between a brother and sister regarding the sister's desire to learn about the Christian faith, with the result that the brother translates for her parts of the New Testament. The book contains a Middle English translation of the Catholic Epistles, Epistles of Paul, Acts of the Apostles, and part of St. Matthew's Gospel. The text has been edited by Anna Paues, and is also in Cambridge, Selwyn Coll. 108.L.19. The manuscript dates from c. 1400.
Contents
New Testament in Middle English

Description

Alternative title English Version of N.T.
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 1 + 159
Date created [ca. 1375 - 1399]
Language English, Middle (1100-1500)
Material Vellum
Layout 22 lines to a page
Height (mm) 201
Width (mm) 135
Collation 1 flyleaf, 1(8)-20(8) (wants 8). Old foliation incorrect but used by me.
Writing clearly written
Foliation ff. a-b + i + pp. 1-254 + 254a + 255a + 255-320 + ff. c-d

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xiv late
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:nx497zn0829/MS_434.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Title
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hj893pm2940/434.pdf
Contains
Title
New Testament in Middle English. 3-319
Nasmith
A dialogue in old English between a brother and his sister, in which the latter expressing her desire to be instructed in the faith, her brother translates for her instruction the epistles, acts of the apostles, and part of St. Matthew's gospel. 3-319
Note
Haec versio aliquantulum differt a Wicleviana, sive quod sit cujusdam alii, sive quod librarii, qui eam transcripserunt, semper ea usi sint libertate ut juxta proprium idioma emendarent
1r headed
Rubric
(3) Maria, Ihesus, Iohannes
Incipit
(3) God made mankynd aftir hys owne Image
Note
A break at xiiiir after
(29) houȝ in þe ferste moneþ of
Half a page blank. Continues xiiiiv
(30) Suuster þre aposteles þat weren most priue
The Catholic Epistles follow: Peter, James, John, Jude
(76) Pauline Epistles
(197) Acts
(303) Matthew, ending imperfectly in vi 13 (The Lord's Prayer)
Explicit
(319) but delyuer us of euyl. Amen
Note
See Forshall and Madden I xii
Transcribed in 1882 for Canon W. Cooke, who possessed another copy (now at Selwyn College). The whole of the text is printed, mainly from this and the Selwyn College copy, but with the help of three other MSS. which contain parts of the text, by Miss A. Paues, Fellow of Newnham College, and Ph.D. of Upsala, in A Fourteenth Century English Biblical Version, Cambridge 1904
TJames 162
Stanley R. 9
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/yj808dd6875
Location MS 434
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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