MS 147 in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College was very possibly the actual volume produced as evidence in the heresy trial of Richard Hunne, merchant tailor of London, who was charged with Lollardy in December 1514. It is a fifteenth-century manuscript of the illegal Wycliffite Bible translation marked up with notes by the judge at the trial, Geoffrey Blithe, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 1503-31, as recorded by Matthew Parker on fol. 15r. In the event, Hunne died mysteriously in his cell in Lollards Tower, and had to be burnt posthumously. The manuscript came into the possession of Parker (1504-1575, archbishop of Canterbury from 1559) and it was among the 400 or so medieval manuscripts entrusted by him to Corpus in 1574.
From Trial to Text
de Hamel, Dr. Christopher
Marginalia, Vol.5 (2007)
Abstract
MS 147 in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College was very possibly the actual volume produced as evidence in the heresy trial of Richard Hunne, merchant tailor of London, who was charged with Lollardy in December 1514. It is a fifteenth-century manuscript of the illegal Wycliffite Bible translation marked up with notes by the judge at the trial, Geoffrey Blithe, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 1503-31, as recorded by Matthew Parker on fol. 15r. In the event, Hunne died mysteriously in his cell in Lollards Tower, and had to be burnt posthumously. The manuscript came into the possession of Parker (1504-1575, archbishop of Canterbury from 1559) and it was among the 400 or so medieval manuscripts entrusted by him to Corpus in 1574.
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