MS. e Mus. 110

Fols. i–v are paper and parchment flyleaves, mostly blank (see Provenance).

[item 1 occupies quire I]

With rubrics (e.g., ‘Matters in þe gospel of…’; ‘Matters in þe pistle to…’) in a different hand than the rest of the manuscript. The books are in the usual order, but Philemon is missing. The table is the same as in MS. Selden Supra 51 (Forshall, J. and Madden, F. (eds), The Holy Bible … in the earliest English versions made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1850), vol. 1, p. xlvii). Laid out in two columns, with chapter numbers in the margins as red Roman numerals. The second column and most of the first column on the last page are left blank.

[item 2 occupies quires II–XVII]

With usual prologues and usual rubrics in black preceded by red paraphs (e.g., ‘Here begynneþ a prologe on matheu’; ‘Ierom in hise twey prologis on matheu seiþ pleynly þus’). John ends three-quarters down the first column on fol. 60v, the rest of the column is left blank and the prologue to Romans starts at the beginning of the second column on the same page. Running titles on both rectos and verses, in black ink preceded by red paraphs. Chapters have two numbers up to fol. 76r: one in black ink in the hand of the main scribe, consisting of an abbreviated ‘c(apitulu)m’ usually followed by an Arabic numeral, another in red ink with ‘c(apitulu) m’ usually followed by a Roman numeral; both are preceded by a single large red paraph. Chapters after fol. 76r have a single number, usually in black ink.

Red paraphs are sometimes used to mark units within the text, such as the beginnings of parables on fol. 12r. Corrections in the margins in a contemporary hand and over erasures within the text. No marginal glosses; added material within the text is occasionally underlined in red; lections are not marked. ‘Nota’ written in the margins in a medieval (?) hand mark the following passages: Luke 11 (‘a woman of þe company reride hir voice & seide to him blessid be þe wombe…’, fol. 39r); Ephesians 4 (‘to ech of us grace is ȝouun by þe mesure of þe ȝiuyng of christ…’, fol. 80r); Acts 13 (‘y haue foundun dauiþ þe sone of iesse a man after myn herte…’, fol. 102v); Apocalypse 2 (‘þat haþ iȝen as flawme of fier & hise feet lijk latoun…’, fol. 120r); Apocalypse 20 (‘& whane a þousinde ȝeeris schulen be endid sathanas schal be vnboundun of his prisoun…’, fol. 126v). At the end ‘Here endiþ apocalips of John’ in the original hand, followed by an addition in a contemporary hand: ‘what is softer þan christes ȝok & liȝter þen christes charge. þat is a mon to be proued in al þinges. abstene fro trespas. to wilne good. not wilne yuel. to loue al men. haten noon. to geten euerlastyng þynges. to be not taken or disseyued bi temperal þinges. to wilne not to do an oþer man þat þat is heuy or greuous to hym selff to suffre’.