Detail View: Medieval Collection: Title page

Image Number: 
JRL0931805dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 80
Previous Accession Number: 
R4994
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Title page
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: 
1r
Image Sequence Number: 
001r
Description: 
Title page: 'A Manuscript of the New Testament, with an Epistle to the Laodiceans, with a prologue of St. Jerome to each Book'. Includes smudged ink note and provenance information. '26 Jan 1692 this Booke was shewne to Mr Wm. Fox at his Examination on the behalfe of John Collum at ye suit of Thomas Shaftoe in the Court of Excheqer before me John Powell'. The original leaf was blank and the calligraphic text was added at a later date.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.--Versions
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject: 
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject: 
Religion
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
People Covered: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
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
Provenance: 
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
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: 
45
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2010-05
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB