Detail View: Medieval Collection: Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians

Image Number: 
JRL0919715dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 75
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians
Parent Work Title: 
New Testament
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Later Version Wycliffe New Testament
Creator: 
Paul, the Apostle, Saint
Creator Role: 
Author
Creator Attribution: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Display Creator: 
Wycliffe, John, d. 1384
Date Created: 
15th century
Page: 
61r
Image Sequence Number: 
061r
Description: 
Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians: chapter two. Paul writes that we are saved by faith in Christ. Red rubrication and a pen-flourished initial 'F' in blue and red ink introduces chapter three. The top of the folio has been torn away and the folio beneath is visible. There is inverted ink annotation in Latin and English along with calligraphic scribbles at the bottom of the folio and in the margin. The annotation has the signature of James Forster. Written space is 100 x 75 mm, 26 long lines.
Language Code: 
lat-GB
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject: 
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.--Versions
Subject: 
Autographs
Subject: 
Bible. N.T. Epistles
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
People Covered: 
Paul, the Apostle, Saint
People Covered: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Item Height: 
161 mm
Item Width: 
101 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Forster, James
Provenance: 
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
References: 
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.18.
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), p. 403. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
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)
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.167.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-04-27
Multi Page Number: 
645
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-08
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB