University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 201
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1453
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 201
- Title:
- New Testament in the translation of John Wycliffe.
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- [late 14th to early 15th century]
- Language:
- Middle English; some works in Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 239 leaves : parchment ; 185 x 113 (146 x 85) mm bound to 193 x 120 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Ross, T. Edward
- Note:
- Script: The text of the New Testament is written in a single hand. Many of the other portions are written in different hands, all varieties of Anglicana script.
Thirteenth folio before the end has been partly cut out; final four folios are badly torn with loss of text.
The autograph of Gilbert, Bishop of Bath and Wells, appears on f. 1r. This office was held by two men named Gilbert: Gilbert Bourne, in office 1554-1560; and Gilbert Berkeley, in office 1560-1581.
Collation: I², II-XXVIII⁴, XXIX⁴ (-1), XXX⁵, XXXI¹.
Pagination: Parchment, i (near contemporary parchment) + 239 + i (near contemporary parchment) leaves; [i-viii], 1-54, [55-470]. Individual books of the New Testament paginated independently in a later hand.
The traditional prologue to the Epistle of James has been transferred to the Epistles of Peter. Ross mistakenly concludes that this prologue "is not found in any of the manuscripts examined by Forshall and Madden" (A Catalogue of the T. Edward Ross Collection, p. 28).
Ms. codex.
Decoration: Extensive use of red for headings and filigree; blue for initials.
Binding: 16th-century calf, with a gilded design.
Origin: Written in England; late 14th to early 15th century.
Description taken from Josephine A. Koster's master's thesis on this manuscript (copy on file in the Library).
Marginal glosses in Old English and Latin on ff. 42v, 46v. and 212r.
The Middle English poem on f. 4r observes poetic lineation; T. Edward Ross erroneously concluded that it was "written in prose," possibly because of cropping that destroyed some line endings (A Catalogue of the T. Edward Ross Collection, pp. 27-28).
Layout: Written in two columns of 37 lines; frame-ruled in ink.
Gift of T. Edward Ross, 1947 (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Gilbert, Bishop of Bath and Wells (autograph, f. 1r). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915517833503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3vd6p84z/manifest
- Holding Institution:
