Detail View: Medieval Collection: Epistle of James

Image Number: 
JRL0922665dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 77
Previous Accession Number: 
R4991
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Epistle of James
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: 
235r
Image Sequence Number: 
235r
Description: 
Epistle of James: red rubrication and an illuminated initial introduce the first chapter.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.
Subject: 
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.--Versions
Subject: 
Bible. N.T. Epistles
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
handwriting
Technique Used: 
Illumination (image-making process)
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
People Covered: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Item Height: 
190 mm
Item Width: 
131 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Provenance: 
Wilson, Lea
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), pp. 404-5. 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.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: 
2375
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-11
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB