Special Collections & Archives: MS.F.4.8 Fragment

MS.F.4.8 (pastedowns) Bible fragment. English. mid-13th century.

Physical description: Two adjacent leaves of Biblical text used as pastedowns in a manuscript of William Langland, Piers Plowman.

Contents: Pages 207-210: glossed text of Ezekiel, 20, 42-21 and 21, 10-23.

Decoration: paragraph marks in red, 1-line initial in red and blue.

Provenance 1500-1600: Ownership inscription of Mr John Denham, 16th century on p.208.

Provenance 1700-1800: 18th century pressmark: T.2.10 on p.210.

Provenance: MS.F.4.8 presented by Clara Hornby in 1944.

• 1983: N. R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) in description of MS.F.4.8

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