MS 296

Summary

Described Thomas James 362; Bernard 363; Walter W. Shirley, Catalogue of the Original Works of John Wyclif (Oxford, 1865), pp. 34, 40–45; Arnold, vol. iii, p. xiii; The English Works of Wyclif Hitherto Unprinted, ed. F.D. Matthew, EETS os 74 (London, 1880), p. vii; James, Corpus 296; E.P. Wilson, ‘A Critical Edition with Commentary, of MS. English theology f. 39 in the Bodleian Library’, B.Litt. diss., University of Oxford (1968), p. 21; Ralph Hanna III, ‘Two Lollard Codices and Lollard Book Production’, Studies in Bibliography 43 (1990), pp. 59–61; Index of Images 85.

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p. 1^a

[Crist comandiþ to his disciplis and to alle cristene men to vndirstonde & flee þe sowrdow of pharisees þe wiche is ypocrisie first pharisees been men of synguler religioun founden of synful men biside þe ordynaunce of god …]

p. 22^a

… and open prechynge aʒenst synne errour aʒenst charite god kepe cristen men fro ypocrisie & false lesyngis of pharisees and here meynteris amen.

‘Attendite a fermento phariseorum quod est ypocrisis lucæ 12^o’. ‘Of the Leaven of the Pharisees’. Wycliffite tract in eleven chapters. IPMEP 94. Wells Rev. 2:530 [77]. Ed. Matthew, pp. 1–27. Although Matthew reports that his transcription is based on the present MS, the brown ink of the opening of the text is now badly affected by a damp stain (noted by James) and therefore largely illegible. The text in square brackets has been supplied from Matthew. The red ink of the Latin rubric is, however, perfectly legible. Text briefly discussed Edmund D. Jones, ‘The Authenticity of Some English Works Ascribed to Wycliffe’, Anglia 30 (1907), p. 261; Herbert E. Workman, John Wyclif: A Study of the English Medieval Church, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1926), vol. 1, p. 330; vol. 2, p. 326.

Other texts: Dublin, Trinity Col 244, ff. 1–16^v. On this MS see Alan J. Fletcher, ‘The Criteria for Scribal Attribution: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 244, Some Early Copies of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Canon of Adam Pynkhurst Manuscripts’, Review of English Studies 58 (2007), pp. 597–632.