Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.384–5.

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f. 4

Here begynnes þe exposicyons of seynt mathew efter þe chapytres þat bene sette in þe bibil þe chapytres of which gospel bene eght and twenty þis werk som tyme i was styrde to begyne of one þat i suppose veraly was goddys seruant and oft tymys prayd me þis werke to begyn seyand to me …

f. 167v

… here it is to understand þat þe aungels rose þat þei were sene standand as luke seys þat tellys þat þe aungels seid to þo women wher to seeke ʒe þe lyfande …

Wycliffite translation of Matthew's Gospel. Ends imperfectly. The translator's preface is on f. 4, followed by the prologue on ff. 4–8; the text of Matthew's gospel begins on f. 8. On f. 4, top margin, is the note: ‘a man of þe north cuntre drogh þis into englisch’. Commentary on Matthew's Gospel. Wells Rev. 2:545 [39]. Not listed by Lindberg, ‘Manuscripts’. See the discussion by Hudson, Selections pp. 411–4 and ‘Wycliffite Prose’, in Edwards (1984) pp. 249–70 (p. 255).

Other texts: BL Egerton 842 ff. 1–208v. Wells Rev. follows FM (I.ix–x) in linking this commentary to the shorter commentaries on Mark and Luke which survive in Camb. Corpus Christi Col 32, ff. 1–56v (Mark) and ff. 57–154v (Luke); on the latter see M. J. Powell, The Pauline Epistles, EETS es 116 (London, 1916) pp. ix–xvi. Doyle diss. i.128–30 and Hudson, Selections p. 411 dispute this link.

Inscription: ‘Matth. Saunders’ (f. 1).

s. xv1. LALME: LP 164, Nottinghamshire.