Detail View: Medieval Collection: Apocalypse

Image Number: 
JRL0919966dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 75
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Apocalypse
Alternative Image Title: 
Revelation
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: 
186v
Image Sequence Number: 
186v
Description: 
Apocalypse: chapter six. The four horsemen of the apocalypse. The final horse is a pale horse riden by death. The fifth and sixth seals are opened. The earth shakes, the sun is black, the stars fall and the moon is as red as blood. Written space is 100 x 75 mm, 26 long lines.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.
Subject: 
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject: 
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject: 
Bible. N.T. Revelation
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.--Versions
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: 
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: 
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.
References: 
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.18.
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): 
2009-04-28
Multi Page Number: 
1900
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-08
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB