Detail View: Medieval Collection: Psalms

Image Number: 
JRL0922838dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 88
Previous Accession Number: 
R14777
Image Title: 
Psalms
Parent Work Title: 
Psalms and canticles
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Wycliffe Later Version Psalms
Creator: 
Asaph
Creator Role: 
Author
Creator Attribution: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Display Creator: 
Wycliffe, John, d. 1384
Date Created: 
14th century [late]
Page: 
40v
Image Sequence Number: 
040v
Description: 
Psalms in the later Wycliffe version. Red rubrication and an illuminated initial 'E' introduces Psalm eighty, a psalm of Asaph. Small red and blue ink initials begin each new line of the psalm. The written space is 128 x 80 mm.
Language Code: 
lat-GB
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Bible. O.T. Psalms
Subject: 
Bible. O.T.
Subject: 
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject: 
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Christianity
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
handwriting
Technique Used: 
Illumination (image-making process)
Medium: 
Ink
Medium: 
Gold leaf
Support: 
Vellum
People Covered: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Item Height: 
169 mm
Item Width: 
113 mm
Current Repository: 
John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
Provenance: 
Hay, Robert
Provenance: 
Wilbraham, Roger
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), p. 412. 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.161.
Notes: 
Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London booksellers Bull & Auvache on 27 February 1908.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-06-09
Multi Page Number: 
495
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-08
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB