Search Results for Middle English scriptural manuscript

... VI's predecessors, who owned manuscript copies of the Wycliffite Bible. The exclusive status of the Middle English scriptural text changed after printed English bibles became more available, beginning with William Tyndale's New Testament edition in 1526. Despite this proliferation of printed versions...

...Mary Raschko The Wycliffite Bible, the first comprehensive translation of the Bible in English, survives in greater numbers than any other Middle English work. Yet the great majority of the more than 250 manuscripts catalogued as Wycliffite bibles do not contain the full canon of scriptures. While...

...- ertsonians supports a “traditional” typological reading of the Innocents, this was not the only interpretation of their story with currency in fourteenth-­ century England. Increasingly (and increasingly in Middle English), interest in scripture’s literal-­historical sense led writers to focus...

... Perry and Westphall / Gathering Good Corn from the Weeds 303 miscellany containing ve religious texts for the sum of pence The manuscript, now Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B was one of several collected by Batman containing Middle English devotional texts, including Piers Plowman, Ancrene...

... 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Middle English mystery plays theology knowledge clerical learning sensory experience Handling Knowledge: Holy Bodies in the Middle English Mystery Plays H. M. Cushman Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts In the climax of the N-T­ own and Chester...

... in the age of print, and when the imperative of reading scripture was less intense than it would be under the Protestants, bibles and biblical fragments still circulated in larger numbers than any other Middle English text. There are over 250 copies extant of the “Wycliffite” or Middle English Bible...

... as chaplain respectively to the English consulate and the English ambassador, Sir Peter Wyche. Among these were two volumes containing the Pentateuch in Hebrew, with verse-by-verse translations from Targum Onkelos and Saadia Gaon's version. 45 This manuscript had been produced in Hama, in Syria, in the mid...

...” that lent its name to that manuscript.3 In fact, we owe the preservation of much of the canon of medieval English drama to the efforts of early mod- erns. Myles Blomefield wrote his signature on three of the four Digby plays, Kenelm Digby numbered these same dramatic texts among his significant...

... on the discernment of spirits, “A Tretis of Discrescyon of Spirites,” often attributed to the author of the Cloud of Unknowing . The treatise, existing in four fifteenth-century manuscript copies, is a Middle English translation of one of Bernard of Clairvaux's sermons, attesting to interest in the broader...

... for understanding the history of vernacular theologies and their experimentation with different rhetorical modes for reshaping belief and practice. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Middle English devotional literature Book to a Mother lollard writings clerical authority female...

... manuscripts, not counting MS 426 it is a very full text, faithfully translating its insular source and not subject to the kinds of textual losses that affected the widely read contemporary Middle English Defective version.22 In its earliest French forms, Mandeville s Travels (ca. 1356) pur- ports to record...

... Jewes shepe” (98). 25 It also recalls the gendered, corporeal anxieties about vernacular translation of scripture in the later Middle Ages. In the views of later fifteenth-century clerics opposed to translation of the Bible into English at the height of anxieties about the Lollard movement...

... the traces of English Catholic Bible readers, critical reading remains the salient interpretive framework.13 562  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 47.3 / 2017 This approach will be reconsidered here alongside one Vulgate quarto (Antwerp, 1605) and its accompanying manuscript...

... an article of the faith in Latin followed by a Middle English paraphrase and extended exposition on the meaning of each. These expositions are furthermore punctuated with additional poetry, scriptural references, and theological excerpts, all also in Latin. Of the four stand- alone Middle English...

... previously unrecognized case in which those earlier works of art can be identified: the famous main narthex portal of the Cluniac abbey church of Ste- Madeleine at Vézelay, created between and and a number of manuscript illuminations produced in the tenth century in the southern English scriptorium...

... primary sources.] Enders, Jody, trans. and ed. Holy Deadlock and Further Ribaldries: Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. x, 536 pp.; 12 figs. $65.00. Giustiniani, Paolo, and Pietro Querini. Libellus...

... University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan Things do not begin to live except in the middle. —Gilles Deleuze, Dialogues A land of unlikeness The English novel The Go-Between (1953) begins a tale of memory and loss...

..., The Middle English Book . For a global perspective, see Bruce W. Holsinger, On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2022). 69 The instant classic is Albert Derolez, The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript...

... the Theologia into English.25 In addition, Brereley may have translated other fragments, including verse, and distillations of Theologia Germanica and Sebastian Franck’s Von dem Baum des Wissens guots unnd boeses (1538).26 The second extraordinary feature of Brereley and Grindleton’s lit- erary life...

... English Texts and Studies. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2001. liv, 202 pp. Paper $24.95. Anon. Pearl. Edited by Sarah Stanbury. Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, in association with the University of Rochester, 2001. viii, 110 pp. Paper $10.00...