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MS. Selden Supra 49

Summary Catalogue no.: 3437

Contents

Gospels, later Wycliffite version

Preceded by an English (Sarum) calendar (fol. 2), and a 'rule' or 'Kalender of the foure Gospelers', giving a list of Sarum liturgical gospels (fol. 9)

Language(s): Middle English

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 150 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 6.125 × 4.375 in.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 850

Fine borders

Fine initials

Binding

Stamped leather with T. S. (?Thomas Stanley), English 16th century work. A fragment of an account of 'Holborne Empcions', i.e. purchases in Holborn (?) of the 16th century, is in the binding

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Codex Thome Stanley de Grays Inne', London, 16th century. It was apparently bound for him (see binding information above). A fragment of an account of 'Holborne Empcions', i.e. purchases in Holborn (?) of the 16th century, is in the binding.

John Selden, 1584–1654

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1659

Record Sources

Description adapted (September 2023) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1922)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 1, p. 634

Bibliography

    Published descriptions:

    Elizabeth Solopova, Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in the Bodleian and Oxford College Libraries (Liverpool, 2016), cat. 45

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-09-22: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)