Table of lections of Type I based on Oon of Foure, Oon of Foure, A personal collection for reading (?), consisting of extracts from most epistles, followed by extracts from Deeds (fol. 96vb), one short extract from the Apocalypse (fol. 97va) and extracts from the Old Testament (fol. 97va) in the Earlier Version of the Wycliffite Bible — 14th century, end or 15th century, early; England

Title

Table of lections of Type I based on Oon of Foure, Oon of Foure, A personal collection for reading (?), consisting of extracts from most epistles, followed by extracts from Deeds (fol. 96vb), one short extract from the Apocalypse (fol. 97va) and extracts from the Old Testament (fol. 97va) in the Earlier Version of the Wycliffite Bible — 14th century, end or 15th century, early; England

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 771

Place of origin

England

Date

14th century, end or 15th century, early

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment, paper flyleaves

Physical extent

124 leaves, c.

Hands

very informal textura, black and brown ink; the table of lections is by a different scribe

Decoration

3- to 4-line red roughly drawn initials, some with penwork, at the beginning of parts of Oon of Foure; 2- to 3-line similar initials at the beginning of chapters.

Rubrics and paraphs in red ink.

Binding

Speckled brown leather over pasteboard, late 17th or 18th century. Blind fillet-line border round the outer edge of both covers; blind rectangular frame with floral decorations and floral corner-pieces on both covers. Five raised bands on spine. Laid paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Fols. ii and 120 were the pastedowns of a medieval binding of wood boards sewn on five double cords. ‘771’ written in dark ink on the edge of textblock.

Acquisition

Bodleian Library: the MS. first appears in the Bodleian lists about 1655 (Madan, F. and Craster, H. H. E., Summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, vol. 2, part I (collections received before 1660 and miscellaneous MSS acquired during the first half of the 17th century), nos. 1–3490 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922)). Earlier shelfmark: ‘Sup. A. Art. 58’ (fol. 1r); ‘58’ (fols. ii verso, iii recto, 1r, 120v).

Provenance

Letters of the alphabet in red in a medieval hand at the top of fol. ii verso.

Franciscan convent in Shrewsbury (?) (Ker, N. R., Medieval libraries of Great Britain, a list of surviving books, 2nd edn (London, 1964)): Couintre. conuentus. Fratrum Minorum Salopie…, 15th century (fol. iii verso). The inscription can be compared with inscriptions in two other manuscripts attributed by Ker to the Franciscan convent in Shrewsbury: Iste liber pertinet comunitate [? abbreviated and modified by the original hand] Fratrum Salopie (Oxford, University College MS. 41, fol. 2v) and de communitate fratrum minorum Salopie (Oxford, University College MS. 77, fol. 2r). The two inscriptions are in different hands, both probably of the 15th century, neither of which is the main hand of the manuscript. Couintre may be a personal name. See also MS. Rawl. C. 258.

Thomas Rydway (also on fol. 120r), Thomas Hawys, Wyllyam Welat, Rycardus Lyne, Wylyam Justyes, Wylyam Lyne, Maryun Leypil, Aneys Colle, early 16th century (fol. ii verso).

In London in the 16th century (?): Rygt trusty and wellbelouyd frynd I grete yow well wyt all my hert desyryng to here of yowre welfere pryyng to here of myne prayng you to send me IX s by Iakys the caryar to londvn no more to yow all thys but all myty Iesu haue yow in hys kepy (fol. iii recto).

Thomas Cardiff, 16th century (fol. 1r), who owned other MSS currently in the Bodleian (Madan, F. and Craster, H. H. E., Summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, vol. 2, part I (collections received before 1660 and miscellaneous MSS acquired during the first half of the 17th century), nos. 1–3490 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922)).