Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.566.

[1]

f. 1

Fyue and twenty bookis of þe olde testament ben bookis of feiþ and fully bookis of hooly writ þe firste is genesis þe ij exodi þe iij leuitici þe iiij numeri þe v deutronomy and þese fyue ben þe bookis of moyses þe whiche ben clepyd proprely þe lawe þe vj josue þe vij book is iuditum þat enclosiþ þe story of ruth …

f. 29

… god graunte to us alle to kunne wel and kepe wel holy wryt and suffre ioiefully sum peyne for it at þe laste amen.

The General Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible. IPMEP 205; Wells Rev. 2:547–50 [52]. Ed. FM, I.1–60. Extract ed. by Hudson, Selections 67–72.

Other texts: IPMEP lists 11 MSS. See Mm.2.15 [2]. For MSS already indexed see IMEP 2 indexing Manchester Rylands Eng 77 [3]; IMEP 8 indexing Oxf. Lincoln Col lat.119 [1] and Univ Col 96 [1].

[2]

f. 31

Here bygynneþ a reule þat telliþ in whiche chapitris of þe byble how ʒe moun fynde þe lessons pistlis and gospels þat ben rad by al þe ʒeer in hooli chirche …

f. 37v

… Here endiþ þe table upon þe temporal and upon þe propre sanctorum and upon þe comoun sanctorum of lessouns pistlis and gospelis þat ben rad in þe chirche þoruʒ þe ʒeer and þe cotaciouns where þei shulen be founden.

Opening and closing rubrics to a table of biblical readings for the church year, with citations of the beginnings and endings of particular readings.

Other texts: cf. Dd.1.27 [2].

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f. 38

Matheu þat was of iudee as he is set first in ordre of þe gospelleris so he wroot first þe gospel in iudee and fro þe office of a tolgadrere he was clepid to god whanne þis matheu hadde prechid first þis gospel in judee and wolde go to heþene men he wroot first þe gospel in ebru and left it to mynde to cristen men …

f. 178

… amen i come soone amen come þou lord iesu crist þe grace of oure lord iesu crist be wiþ ʒou alle amen.

‘Here bigynneþ þe prolog on þe gospel of matheu’ (f. 38); ‘Here eendiþ þe apocalips of joon’ (f. 178). Wycliffite New Testament, later version. IPMEP 119; Wells Rev. 2:547–50 [52]. See Lindberg, ‘Manuscripts’ p. 335.