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MS. Eng. misc. c. 27

Summary Catalogue no.: 30494 (in part)

Guardbook of fragments

MS. Eng. misc. c. 27 – Part 1

Contents

(fol.1)

Fragment from a binding with pen-trials in English

Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: other
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 16th century, beginning

MS. Eng. misc. c. 27 – Part 2

Contents

(fol.2)
Culinary recipes
Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: bifolium, fragmentary

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; English

MS. Eng. misc. c. 27 – Part 3

Contents

(fols. 33–35)
Household accounts

Three fragments of rolls

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: roll
Support: parchment

Layout

History

Origin: 15th century, second half – 16th century, early ; English

MS. Eng. misc. c. 27, fol. 46

Contents

Language(s): Middle English with Latin

(fol. 46)
Fragments of Isaiah in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible (30:22–24, 30:33–31:1, 32:2–6, 32:20–33:2)

Damaged and partially unreadable. Chapter numbers in red, consisting of ‘c(apitulum)’ followed by a Roman numeral.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: single strip, c. 298 mm wide

Layout

ruled for two columns with double vertical bounding lines and a further set of two bounding lines in the outer margin; written space: c. 200 mm wide

Hand(s)

textura; black ink

Decoration

Includes the beginnings of chapters 31 and 33 with 2-line blue initials, decorated with red penwork.

History

Origin: England ; 15th century, first quarter

Probably a fragment of a complete bible or Old Testament (large format, letters 2.5 mm high) (Dove, M., The first English Bible: the text and context of the Wycliffite versions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)).

Dialect survey:

  • ȝouu(n)(1), fier(1), vnwiys(1)
  • -iþ(1) (pres.ind.3sg.), -en(4) (pres.ind.pl.), -ynge(1) (pres.part.), þei(2) (3pl. pronoun, nom.), hem(1) (3pl.pronoun, oblique)

Record Sources

Elizabeth Solopova, Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in the Bodleian and Oxford College Libraries, Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016), no. 20.

Bibliography

    Madan, F., Summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, vol. 5 (collections received during the second half of the 19th century and miscellaneous MSS acquired between 1695 and 1890) nos. 24331–31000 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905), no. 30494.
    Dove, M., The first English Bible: the text and context of the Wycliffite versions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 300.

MS. Eng. misc. c. 27 – Part 5

Contents

(fol. 47)
List of names to be remembered in intercessory prayer
Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 15th century, second half ; English

MS. Eng. misc. c. 27 – Part 6

Contents

(fol. 77v)

Pen trials

Language(s): English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Layout

History

Origin: 15th century, late – 16th century, earl

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description adapted from Index of Middle English Prose, XII.1

Abbreviations

View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.

Last Substantive Revision

2023-03-24: Add Solopova description.