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English Wycliffite sermons.
Format
Book
Language
English
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Latin
Published/Created
[London, England] ; [between 1300 and 1400]
Description
1 volume (folios i, 230, i) : parchment ; 297 x 193 mm
Details
Subject(s)
Lollards
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Sermons
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Early works to 1800
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Christian life
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, English (Middle)
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Bookseller
Witten, Laurence C.
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Donor
Taylor, Robert H., 1908-1985
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Related name
Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Taylor MS. 16.
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Library of Congress genre
Sermons
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Speeches
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Getty AAT genre
Manuscripts
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England
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14th century
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Notes
Script: Anglicana formata of varying grades. Incipits and Latin lemmata usually in Textualis libraria.
Decoration: Tracts and the beginnings of the four sets of sermons open with 3- to 5-line initials in blue with red pen flourishes. Subsequent sermons begin with 3- to 4-line initials in blue, occasionally with red pen flourishes.
Binding note
England? 20th century (after 1945). Vermilion morocco over pasteboard. Sewn on five bands; end-bands with secondary sewing in green and gold.
Language note
English text and Latin.
Provenance
Taylor MS. 16 is an English Wycliffite manuscript of a liturgical cycle of 294 sermons. The manuscript shares a common provenance with London, British Library, Add. MSS. 40671 and 40672. The antiquarian bookseller Laurence C. Witten (1926-1995), of New Haven, Connecticut, later acquired the manuscript and sold it to Robert H. Taylor (1908-1985), of Princeton, New Jersey, Class of 1930, who had the manuscript rebound and added his bookplate to the front pastedown. His bequest to the Princeton University Library, 1985.
Source acquisition
Gift of Robert H. Taylor.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 437-440.
Cite as
Taylor MS. 16, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
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Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
Wycliffite sermons
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