COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0912087dc
Reference Number:
English MS 81
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Deeds of the Apostles
Alternative Image Title:
Stephen is martyred
Parent Work Title:
New Testament
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Later Version Wycliffe New Testament
Creator Attribution:
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Display Creator:
Wycliffe, John, d. 1384
Date Created:
14th century [late]
Page:
76v
Image Sequence Number:
076v
Description:
Deeds of the Apostles: chapters seven and eight. A pen-flourished initial 'F' in blue and red ink introduces the next chapter. Stephen likens the Jewish elders to those who worship false gods for ignoring the voice of God and calling for the crucifixion of Jesus. The elders have Stephen stoned outside the city walls. The disciple Philip goes to Samaria to preach. The written space is c. 207 x 133 mm in two columns.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Bible. N.T. Acts
Subject:
Bible. N.T.--Versions
Subject:
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject:
Bible. N.T.
Subject:
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject:
Religion
Subject:
Christianity
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1 BCE - 500 CE
Places Covered:
Israel: Jerusalem
Places Covered:
Israel: Sāmirah
People Covered:
Wycliffe, John, -1384
People Covered:
Philip, the Apostle, Saint
People Covered:
Stephen, Saint, -approximately 36
Item Height:
270 mm
Item Width:
192 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Danvers, Anne, Dame, "widowe, sumtyme wyffe to Sr William Danvers, knyght, hoose soule God assoyle hathe gevyn this present Booke unto mastre confessor and his Bretherne encloosed in Syon, etc."
Provenance:
Wilson, Lea
Provenance:
Reynolds, Edward (Fellow of Merton 1620 and warden 1660-1, bishop of Norwich 1661-76)
Provenance:
Simonson, William, fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
References:
Parts of this catalogue have been reproduced from Ker, N.R., 'Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. III, Lampeter-Oxford' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 406-7. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.19.
Bibliographic Citation:
See Forshall, Josiah and Madden, Frederic, 'The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books, in the earliest English versions made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1850), vol. 1, MS no.156.
Bibliographic Citation:
Published as 'The New Testament in English translated by John Wycliffe circa MCCCLXXX : now first printed from a contemporary manuscript formerly in the monastery of Sion Middlesex late in the collection of Lea Wilson FSA' (Chiswick: William Pickering, 1848).
Bibliographic Citation:
Cooper, W. R., 'The Wycliffe New Testament (1388): an edition in modern spelling, with an introduction, the original prologues and the Epistle to the Laodiceans, edited for The Tyndale Society' (London: British Library, 2002)
Notes:
See English Manuscript 902 for transcript made by Mr. Lea Wilson.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-04-15
Multi Page Number:
840
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-07
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Deeds of the Apostles
