Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
English Wycliffite sermons.
Call Number
Taylor MS. 16
Identifier
https://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1g05fh92g
Publisher
[London, England] ; [between 1300 and 1400]
Language
Middle English
Date Created
1300-1400
Format
Book
Extent
1 volume (folios i, 230, i) : parchment ; 297 x 193 mm
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.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
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.

Discovery Information

Subject
Lollards—Sermons—Early works to 1800
Christian life—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
468

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/07b9d8fd-2af1-4c10-82be-e53515d50a09/manifest