Capitula-list of New Testament, Sarum calendar-lectionary in English, Table of lections, New Testament in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible, Old Testament lectionary of Type II — 15th century, first quarter, before 1415 (?); England

Title

Capitula-list of New Testament, Sarum calendar-lectionary in English, Table of lections, New Testament in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible, Old Testament lectionary of Type II — 15th century, first quarter, before 1415 (?); England

Shelfmark

MS. Selden Supra 51

Date

15th century, first quarter, before 1415 (?)

Language

Latin

Middle English (1100-1500)

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

325 leaves, c.

Hands

informal textura, black and brown ink; the work of several scribes

Decoration

4- to 8-line gold initials on blue and pink background at the beginnings of New Testament books and the Old Testament lectionary; the initial at the beginning of Matthew is decorated with sprays of leaves and gold disks.

4-line penwork initials at the beginnings of 2 John–Jude.

3-line gold initial on blue and pink background at the beginning of the prologue to Matthew; 3-line blue initials with red penwork at the beginnings of other prologues.

3- to 4-line blue initials with red penwork at the beginnings of chapters and readings in the Old Testament lectionary.

Rubrics in red; blue paraphs.

Binding

Contemporary English binding; worn plain red leather over wood boards. Five raised bands on spine. Holes left by the fittings of two clasps on the upper cover and by two pins on the lower cover, all now lost. Paper label on spine with handwritten ‘3439’.

Acquisition

Bodleian Library. Earlier shelfmark: ‘15’, fol. 1r.

Provenance

super honorem deo pathr noster quy us… (fol. 2r); John (fols. 2r, 3r), Ihus in a square frame (fol. 128v); Thomas Lucas (fol. 195v); Thomas, John Robynes boke as longe as he lewe ande after hym gorge ys (fol. 218r), in several hands, all 16th century.

The feasts of Thomas Becket and titles ‘pope’ are erased in the calendar-lectionary, presumably at Reformation.

John Selden, 1584–1654.

Title

The New Testament in the later Wycliffite version

Shelfmark

MS. Selden Supra 51

Summary

The New Testament in the later Wycliffite version: preceded by 'A table of alle the Gospels & Pistlis & the Apocalips', i.e.

A list of their contents (fol. 4)

A Sarum calendar with various tables of Lessons, Epistles and Gospels (fol. 13v)

Followed by the Lessons and Epistles from the Old Testament (fol. 284)

Date

Written in more than one hand early in the 15th century

Language

English

Physical facet

On parchment, with illuminated capitals, etc.; binding, plain red leather on boards, worn, clasps lost, English contemporary work

Physical extent

326 Leaves

Custodial history

Manuscript 3454 acquired by the Bodleian Library