PROVERBS, ETC., IN ENGLISH
Vellum, 6.875 x 4.625, ff. 128 + 5, double columns of 30 lines and single of 26. Early ? 15th cent., well written : two hands.
Collation : 3 flyleaves, 18 - 148 | 158 168 : 2 flyleaves.
Contents :
I. Here bigynne{th} {th}e prouerbis of salomon . f. 1
The parablis of salomon {th}e sone of daui{th}.
Ecclesiastes . . . . . . 28
Song of songis . . . . . . 37b
Sapience . . . . . . 42
Ecclesiasticus . . . . . . 61
Ends 111b: and he schal {g}yue to {y}ou {y}oure meede in his tyme.
f. 112 blank.
II. here bygynne{th} {th}e book of {th}e holy man thobye . 113
Thobye of {th}e lynage of {th}e cite of neptalym.
Ends 126b: acceptid bo{th} to god and men and to alle dwellyng
upon er{th}e.
Here eendi{th} {th}e book of thobye.
Forshall and Madden, no. 130 : "about 1420 : of the later version".
Negative microfilm in St John's College Library.
Conrad Lindberg, 'The Manuscripts and versions of the Wycliffite Bible: a preliminary survey'. Studia Neophilologica: a journal of Germanic and Romance Philology 42:2 (1970), 333-45.
Conrad Lindberg, A Manual of the Wyclif Bible, including the Psalms. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis Stockholm Studies in English CII (Stockholm, 2007) p. 11 no. 130.