Detail View: Medieval Collection: Ecclesiastes chapter 15

Image Number: 
JRL0931292dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 82
Previous Accession Number: 
R4996
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Ecclesiastes chapter 15
Parent Work Title: 
Old Testament
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Later Version Wycliffe Old Testament
Creator Attribution: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Display Creator: 
Wycliffe, John, d. 1384
Date Created: 
15th century
Page: 
242v
Image Sequence Number: 
242v
Description: 
Ecclesiastes. The text seems to end at 16 : 1. Repairs have been made to the vellum where the top half of the folio is missing, and in patches in the folio. The ink is faded and the vellum dirty in places. Red rubrication and a red and blue ink pen-flourished initial ' B ' introduce chapter 16. The written space is 160 x 108 mm. There are two columns of text, both having 24 lines.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject: 
Bible. O.T.--Versions
Subject: 
Bible. O.T.
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
People Covered: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Item Height: 
257 mm
Item Width: 
175 mm
Current Repository: 
John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
Provenance: 
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. 407. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-08-04
Multi Section Number: 
2450
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2010-11
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB