COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0903198dc
Reference Number:
English MS 87
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
On the Creed
Parent Work Title:
Pore Caitif
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Poore Caitiff
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Pore Catiiff
Translated Parent Work Title:
Poor wretch
Creator Attribution:
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Display Creator:
Wycliffe, John, d. 1384
Date Created:
15th century
Page:
1r
Image Sequence Number:
001r
Description:
Treatise on the Creed. Incipit: the text begins imperfectly 'do but also of dedis left vndo..'. There are probably eight leaves missing prior to this first folio of text. The written space is 93 x 65 mm with 22 long lines.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Christianity
Subject:
Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Subject:
Religion
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered:
England
People Covered:
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Item Height:
150 mm
Item Width:
102 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Dod, Thomas
Provenance:
Dumbalrd, Richard
Provenance:
Martin, Thomas
Provenance:
Ratlyfe, George
Provenance:
Lowson, George
Provenance:
Sapcote, George
Provenance:
Garard, Myles
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. 20.
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. 411 - 12. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
Notes:
'The Pore Caitif' (Poor Wretch), was a popular late fourteenth-century collection of treatises, composed as a manual of religious instruction for the laity. The collection has often been wrongly attributed to John Wycliffe.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2008-10-23
Multi Page Number:
65
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-02
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
On the Creed
