Bible (later Wycliffite version), Complete chapters from Old Testament and New Testament in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible, Brief educational (?) and moral (?) extracts from Old Testament and New Testament in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible, each followed by an abbreviated title of the book and chapter number — 15th century, first quarter; England

Title

Bible (later Wycliffite version), Complete chapters from Old Testament and New Testament in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible, Brief educational (?) and moral (?) extracts from Old Testament and New Testament in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible, each followed by an abbreviated title of the book and chapter number — 15th century, first quarter; England

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 182

Date

15th century, first quarter

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

320 leaves, c.

Hands

textura, black ink; the two parts, fols. 1r–287v and fols. 288v–319v, are the work of two different scribes

Decoration

Spaces left for 3-line initials at the beginnings of books and 2-line initials at the beginnings of prologues and chapters; guide-letters provided, but the initials are not filled in. 2-line spaces are left for initials at the beginnings of extracts (fols. 288v–319v).

Rubrics in red ink.

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard, 16th century. Blind fillet-line border with floral corner-pieces and an oval centrepiece with arabesque designs on both covers. Five raised bands on spine with daisy-like decorations between the bands. Fragmentary paper labels on spine, one with handwritten and two with typewritten text, including ‘Laud. D 14.’ and ‘Laud 182’.

Acquisition

Bodleian Library: first donation from Laud, 22 May 1635. Earlier shelfmark ‘D. 14’ (binding, upper pastedown, fol. 1r).

Provenance

James Beresford, 16th century (fol. 319). Latin verses, possibly in his hand, from the preface to Bartholomew Clerke’s translation of Baldassarre Castiglione’s Libro del cortegiano (Balthasaris Castilionis comitis de curiali siue aulico libri quatuor: ex Italico sermone in Latinum conuersi, London, 1571): Tullius, Osorius, Clerckus, flos, gloria, laurus … … laurea lauta suae .

Notes in 16th- or 17th-century hands in the margins, including Omnia totalis 30lb 3s-4d (fol. 7r); Mr Henrie St George (fol. 44v), Miles (fol. 199r), henry asley(?) is my name(?), Denys (fol. 319v).

William Laud (1573–1645); see Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Liber Guilielmi Laud Archiepiscopi Cantuar’: et Cancellarij Vniuersitatis Oxon. 1633 (fol. 3r).

Title

Bible (later Wycliffite version) (extracts)

Shelfmark

MS. Laud Misc. 182

Date

15th century

Language

English

Physical facet

16th century English binding, oval arabesque centrepiece

Physical extent

319 Leaves

Custodial history

For stamp on cover cf. no. 634. Manuscript 2034 acquired by the Bodleian Library