COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0931797dc
Reference Number:
English MS 80
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Upper cover binding
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:
Upper cover
Image Sequence Number:
001a
Description:
Full bound in tan leather, edged with blind lines around the edge and square. There are also blind decorations extending across the spine surrounding the five raised bands. Rebound by Zaehnsdorf in 1898.
Subject:
Bookbinding
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Blind-tooling
Support:
Leather
Time Period Covered:
19th Century CE
Item Height:
215 mm
Item Width:
147 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Marsh, Wilmot, Reverend, of Bangor
Provenance:
Merry, Anthony
Provenance:
Cullum, John
Provenance:
Powell, John
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
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. 406. 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:
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.157.
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):
2009-09-29
Multi Page Number:
5
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2010-05
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Upper cover binding
