COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0919555dc
Reference Number:
English MS 81
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Revelation
Alternative Image Title:
Apocalypse
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:
150r
Image Sequence Number:
150r
Description:
Apocalypse: chapters fifteen, sixteen and seventeen. Pen-flourished initials in blue and red ink introduce the chapters. The last seven vials of God's wrath are released on the earth. Those who worship the beast are marked, the sea is made as blood, all waters are made as blood, the sun torments man with heat, the earth is made dark, there is a plague of frogs and the earth shakes. The written space is c. 207 x 133 mm in two columns.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject:
Bible. N.T.
Subject:
Religion
Subject:
Christianity
Subject:
Bible. N.T. Revelation
Subject:
Bible. N.T.--Versions
Subject:
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1 BCE - 500 CE
People Covered:
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Item Height:
270 mm
Item Width:
192 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Wilson, Lea
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:
Simonson, William, fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
Provenance:
Reynolds, Edward (Fellow of Merton 1620 and warden 1660-1, bishop of Norwich 1661-76)
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.19.
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.
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:
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:
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).
Notes:
See English Manuscript 902 for transcript made by Mr. Lea Wilson.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-04-15
Multi Page Number:
1575
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-07
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Revelation
