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Transcription by Esther Inglis of Rudolphus Gualterus's verse Paraphrases of the Book of Matthew : Religious writing; Manuscript; Miscellany 26 January 1607.
- Format:
- Other
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- London (England).
- Zurich (Switzerland).
- Religious literature--Authorship.
- Religious literature.
- Title pages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2008.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:MS Acc. 11821
- Item 32 in Scott-Elliot and Yeo's catalogue (1990), a major source for this entry. Inglis presented this manuscript, in 1607, to William Douglas, seventh earl of Morton (1582-1648). In her dedication, Inglis apologises for presenting a manuscript to someone she does not know, explaining that having heard that the earl was coming to London she decided to "perfeyt" this volume for him as an item for his private cabinet. Morton had succeeded his grandfather as earl of Morton the previous November, so this trip to London was presumably associated with the formal taking up of the title. As a visiting Scottish nobleman, he was a natural recipient for one of Inglis's manuscripts. The text's source, hitherto unidentified, is a volume of biblical paraphrases by Rudolphus Gualterus (Rudolf Gualter (1519-1586)), an important figure in Reformation Zurich, Bullinger's successor and Zwingli's son-in-law. No other Inglis manuscript is known which makes use of Gualterus's paraphrases of Matthew. Two manuscripts use his Psalms paraphrases (Houghton MS Typ 212 and Folger MS V.a.94), one his paraphrases of Genesis (a private manuscript not in the Perdita catalogue (Scott-Elliot and Yeo 1990, no. 26)) and one his paraphrases of the apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus (Pierpont Morgan MS 2149). All of these manuscripts belong to the group of "flower" manuscripts recently described by Bakker (2000): small, landscape-format volumes containing a few lines of verse on each page together with coloured pictures of flowers and insects. Inglis presented these manuscripts to, predominantly, members of the English Court between 1605 and 1607.
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