University College MS. 96
Contents
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
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.
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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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-01-13: Record created.