COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL1000508dc
Reference Number:
English MS 80
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Apocalypse
Alternative Image Title:
Revelation
Alternative Image Title:
Prologue
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:
271r
Image Sequence Number:
271r
Description:
Apocalypse: the end of chapter twenty-two. Explicit in red ink. 'Here endiþ þe Apocalipis Anno domini m ccco (sic) xliiii'. Another hand writes 'Here endiþ þe newe testament...'. This is followed by a prologue to an epistle of Paul to the Romans that is not usually found in English. 'Romayns ben þei þt of iewes and heþen...'.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Religion
Subject:
Christianity
Subject:
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject:
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject:
Bible. N.T.
Subject:
Bible. N.T.--Versions
Subject:
Bible. N.T. Revelation
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:
Merry, Anthony
Provenance:
Cullum, John
Provenance:
Powell, John
Provenance:
Marsh, Wilmot, Reverend, of Bangor
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:
2745
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2010-05
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Apocalypse
