Dublin, Trinity College, 245
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Shelfmark
Country:Ireland
Settlement:Dublin
Repository: Trinity College
Idno:245
AltName:C.5.6
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Date and Language
Date:s. xv
Language: English
Dialect:Scribal Dialect: Warwickshire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 442 271, LP 7990 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 4, p. 244). However, McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin note that although the manuscript is written by one scribe it is in 'several different kinds of English' (1986, vol. 4, p. 244). Ff. 127v-138r: Scribal Dialect: 'SE Soke or extreme N Hunts' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 77). F. 164 'Language apparently of N Ely, mixed with some other component(s). Ely' (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, vol. 1, p. 77).
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Contents
A fifteenth-century collection of Wycliffite material.

Item: i
Locus:f. ii recto
Title:Modern list of contents.
Incipit:
Explicit:
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Item: 1
Locus:ff. 1r-2r
Title:Creed (IPMEP 403)
Incipit:'This sooş şat bileue'.
Explicit:'ne wiş hem boş and eac tyne in blisse'.
Rubric:'Crede'
Bibliography:Simmons and Nolloth 1901, pp. 14-18.

Item: 2
Locus:ff. 2r-3v
Title:Pater Noster (IPMEP 810)
Incipit:'We shal bileue şat şis pater noster'.
Explicit:'shal we haue euer lastynge fredom. Amen'.
Colophon:'Explicit pater noster'.
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Item: 3
Locus:ff. 3v-4v
Title:Ave Maria (IPMEP 455)
Incipit:'Men greten commonly our lady goddis moder'.
Explicit:'worshipe the marie wiş al our my?t'.
Bibliography:Simmons and Nolloth 1901, pp. 11-14.

Item: 4
Locus:f. 4v-6v
Title:Seven Heresies (IPMEP 208)
Incipit:'For false men multiplie bokis of şe chirche'.
Explicit:'but neişer is şis bileue ne grounded in reson'.
Note:F. 7r-8v blank.
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Item: 5
Locus:ff. 9r-26v
Title:Ten Commandments (IPMEP 49)
Incipit:'Alle maner of men shulden holde goddis biddyngis'.
Explicit:
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Item: 6
Locus:ff. 27r-30v
Title:On faith hope and charity (IPMEP 595)
Incipit:'For it is seid in holdyng of our haliday'.
Explicit:
Bibliography:Simmons and Nolloth 1901, pp. 14-18.

Item: 7
Locus:ff. 30v-35r
Title:De operibus corporalibus (IPMEP 331)
Incipit:'If a man wer sur şat he shulde to morewe'.
Explicit:
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Item: 8
Locus:ff. 35r-38r
Title:De operibus caritatis
Incipit:'Siş we shulden serue our parishens in spiritual almes'.
Explicit:
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Item: 9
Locus:ff. 38r-63r
Title:Septem peccata capitalia
Incipit:'Siş bileue techiş vs şat any yuel'.
Explicit:
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Item: 10
Locus:ff. 63v-75v
Title:De ecclesia et membris ejus
Incipit:'Cristis chirche is his spouse'.
Explicit:
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Item: 11
Locus:ff. 76r-80v
Title:De apostasia et dotacione ecclesiae (IPMEP 597)
Incipit:
Explicit:
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Item: 12
Locus:ff. 81r-95v
Title:Tractatus de Pseudo Freris (IPMEP 210)
Incipit:'For meny bereth heuy şat freris be clepid pseudo'.
Explicit:
Bibliography:Matthew 1880, pp. 296-324.

Item: 13
Locus:ff. 96r-101r
Title:Of the 8 woes that God wished to freris (IPMEP 127)
Incipit:'Crist biddiş vs be war wiş şes false prophets'.
Explicit:'Her enden şe ei?te woos şat god wyshid to freris. Amen'.
Bibliography:

Item: 14
Locus:ff. 101r-116v
Title:Sermon on Matthew 24/Of Ministers in the Church (IPMEP 738)
Incipit:'Şis gospel telliş myche wisdom'.
Explicit:
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Item: 15
Locus:ff. 117r-124r
Title:Of anticrist & his meynee (IPMEP 144)
Incipit:'David seiş lord seth şou a lawe maker vpon hem'.
Explicit:
Bibliography:Todd 1851.

Item: 16
Locus:ff. 124r-126r
Title:Of Antichrist's song in the chirche
Incipit:'Also prelatis prestis & freris'.
Explicit:
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Item: 17
Locus:ff. 126r-127r
Title:Of praier a tretys
Incipit:'Also bischopis & freres putten to pore men şat şei seyn'.
Explicit:
Rubric:'Of praier a tretys'.
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Item: 18
Locus:ff. 127v-137r
Title:Nota de confessione (IPMEP 790)
Incipit:'Two virtues ben in manes soule'.
Explicit:
Bibliography:Matthew 1880, pp. 327-345.

Item: 19
Locus:ff. 137v-143v
Title:
Incipit:'Crist for soşe did al şat he couşe to obeye to lordis to makely & softly speke to hem'.
Explicit:
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Item: 20
Locus:ff. 144r-145v
Title:Nota de sacramentibus altaris
Incipit:'Cristen mennes bileeue tau?t of ihesu crist god & man'.
Explicit:
Bibliography:Hudson 1978, pp. 110-112.

Item: 21
Locus:ff. 145v-151r
Title:
Incipit:'Crisostom seiş şat fischers'.
Explicit:
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Item: 22
Locus:ff. 151r-153v
Title:
Incipit:'Seynt barnard spekiş şus to eugenye şe pope'.
Explicit:
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Item: 23
Locus:ff. 153v-160r
Title:'God moueth hooly chirche ...'.
Incipit:'God moueş hooly chirche'.
Explicit:
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Item: 24
Locus:ff. 160r-163r
Title:
Incipit:'And for noişer man ne woman'.
Explicit:
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Item: 25
Locus:ff. 163r-217r
Title:Here are questions & answeris putte that are written hereafter (IPMEP 188)
Incipit:'Here are questionis & ansueris'.
Explicit:
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Item: 26
Locus:f. 217r-v
Title:A mystical interpretation of Jacob's ladder
Incipit:'Hit is writen in şe furst book of holi writ'.
Explicit:
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Item: 27
Locus:f. 217v
Title:The nine points that our lord answered a holy man
Incipit:'Şeis ben şe nyne poyntis şat our lord ihesu answerid an holy man'.
Explicit:
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Item: 28
Locus:f. 218r
Title:
Incipit:'Of şe dedis of mercy god will speke at şe dredful day'.
Explicit:Imperfect. Wormholes.
Bibliography:
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Physical Description
Form:Codex
Support: Parchment
Extent:160 x 110 mm
Collation: Catchwords: ff. 16v; 24v; 32v; 40v; 48v; 56v; 64v; 74v; 82v; 90v; 98v; 106v; 114v; 122v; 130v; 138v; 146v; 154v; 170v; 178v; 187v; 194v; 202v; 210v.
Layout:Pricking: small round holes. Writing space of 120 x 75 mm. Single columns with 32 lines. Frame and lines ruled in drypoint.
Writing: One scribe writing in an Anglicana script in black ink. Characteristics: long s in medial position; sigma s in final position; double compartment a; short descenders with a hairline hook e.g. y; single compartment g; 2-shaped r in final position. Body height 1.5-2mm.
Decoration: Eleven-line blue initial I with red penwork extending along left and top margin begins first text. Other texts begin with three-line initials with fine red penwork e.g. f. 9r. Two-line blue initials with red penwork throughout. Red paraphs. Underlining in red.
Binding: Not medieval. Size: 170 x 115 mm. Cover of tan leather over pasteboards with blind tooled decoration along edges. Five raised bands across the spine. Cover mitred and pasted with marbled paper on front and back pastedown.
Foliation:2 modern paper flyleaves + 218 + 3 modern paper flyleaves.
Additions:
Condition:Very good apart from last folios which have wormholes.
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History
Origin:Unknown
Provenance:Unknown
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Record History
Catalogued and encoded: Rebecca Farnham, University of Birmingham, May 2004.
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Bibliography
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