COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0920397dc
Reference Number:
English MS 77
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
General prologue
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:
15th century
Page:
15r
Image Sequence Number:
015r
Description:
General prologue. A pen-flourished initial 'O' in red and blue ink introduces text beginning 'Oure lord ihesu crist verri god and verri man seiþ in þe gospel'.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Christianity
Subject:
Religion
Subject:
Bible. N.T.--Versions
Subject:
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject:
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject:
Bible. N.T.
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Item Height:
190 mm
Item Width:
131 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Wilson, Lea
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. 404-5. 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.18.
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.158.
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)
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-05-20
Multi Page Number:
175
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-11
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
General prologue
