Table of lections of Type I, Romans–Apocalypse in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible with usual prologues and a second prologue to Romans

Title

Table of lections of Type I, Romans–Apocalypse in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible with usual prologues and a second prologue to Romans

Shelfmark

MS. Fairfax 21

Language

Latin

Middle English (1100-1500)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

170 leaves, c.

Hands

textura, the work of at least four different scribes; the first scribe is responsible for fols. 5r–50ra, the second scribe takes over on fol. 50ra, the third is responsible for quire XX (fols. 138r–143) and the fourth for quires XXI–XXIII (fols. 144–167). The last scribe may have also copied the table of lections. The size of script varies from quire to quire (e.g., fols. 28v–29r).

Decoration

2-line blue initials with red penwork at the beginnings of prologues and chapters; 2- to 4-line similar initials at the beginnings of books.

Rubrics in red.

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard. Blind fillet-line border round the outer edge of both covers; medallion with blind interlace design at the centre of both covers. Fragments of two ties made of yellow fabric. Four raised bands on spine, framed with blind fillet lines; blind criss-cross design at the top and bottom of spine. Paper label on spine with handwritten ‘M.S. Fairfax 21’. Sewn on four cords.

Acquisition

Bodleian Library: bequeathed by Fairfax in 1671. Earlier shelfmark (?): ‘20’ written in ink on fol. ii verso and the fore-edge of textblock.

Provenance

Thomas Fairfax (1612–1671); see Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Sir Thomas fairfax of Denton, knight (fol. ii recto); This auncient monument of the translating of the scriptures in olde tyme into Englishe, belongeth to the right worshypfull, Syr Thomas Fairefax knight (fol. 167v).

Title

The Epistles of st. Paul, Acts, Catholic Epistles, and Apocalypse

Shelfmark

MS. Fairfax 21

Summary

The Epistles of st. Paul, Acts, Catholic Epistles, and Apocalypse, in English in the later version of Wyclif, with the usual prologues, preceded by a table of the epistles according to the use of Sarum (fol. 1).

Date

Written in the mid-15th century in England

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Physical facet

On parchment, in double columns

Physical extent

168 Leaves

Custodial history

Fol. ii has 'Sir Thomas Fairfax of Denton, knight' (17th cent.).