University College MS. 96

Wycliffite Summary of the Old Testament with Interpretations of Scripture (including the General Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible); Gospel lections in Middle English for Easter and Palm Sunday

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: vellum

Decoration

Red initials. Spaces left for initials. Anglicana script, showing Secretary influence.

Binding

Unbound

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning-end ; England.; Printed; London, 1550 (Coxe)

Provenance and Acquisition

"This book seemeth to have been made by John Wickliffe." "I take this note to be of Mr Obad. Walker’s handwriting. Teste Guil. Smith, Aug. 26, 1700." (Notes on the flyleaf) "List of contents in the hand of O. Walker." (anonymous note in Duke Humphrey copy of Coxe)

Record Sources

Summary description based on the following sources.

H. O. Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur (1852), p. 28

S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson (ed.), The Index of Middle English Prose VIII: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Oxford College Libraries (Cambridge, 1991), p. 109

Availability

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-01-13: Record created.

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