Detail View: Medieval Collection: An explanation of Arabic numbers

Image Number: 
JRL1000012dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 80
Previous Accession Number: 
R4994
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
An explanation of Arabic numbers
Alternative Image Title: 
Gospel of Matthew
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: 
23r
Image Sequence Number: 
023r
Description: 
An explanation of Arabic numbers with accompanying pen-trials. Text begins 'The first place in augrym noumbre...'. Rubrication and a decorated initial 'T' introduces the Gospel of Matthew: chapter one. The text of chapter one has been supplied by a later hand in imitation textura as the original leaf has been lost.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Bible. N.T. Gospels
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.--Versions
Subject: 
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject: 
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject: 
Numeration, Arabic
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
People Covered: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Item Height: 
215 mm
Item Width: 
147 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Provenance: 
Marsh, Wilmot, Reverend, of Bangor
Provenance: 
Merry, Anthony
Provenance: 
Powell, John
Provenance: 
Cullum, John
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.18.
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.
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)
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.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-09-29
Multi Page Number: 
265
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2010-05
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB