Detail View: Medieval Collection: On the five wits of the body and soul, the seven spiritual virtues, the seven works of corporal and of spiritual mercy, the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit and the seven sacraments.

Image Number: 
JRL0903049dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 85
Previous Accession Number: 
R4999
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
On the five wits of the body and soul, the seven spiritual virtues, the seven works of corporal and of spiritual mercy, the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit and the seven sacraments.
Parent Work Title: 
Wycliffe Treatises
Creator Attribution: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Display Creator: 
Wycliffe, John, d. 1384
Date Created: 
15th century [early]
Page: 
18v
Image Sequence Number: 
018v
Description: 
Treatise on the five wits of the body and soul, the seven spiritual virtues, the seven works of corporal and of spiritual mercy, the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit and the seven sacraments. Red rubrication with a pen-flourished initial 'B' in blue and red ink. Treatise attributed to John Wycliffe, but of doubtful authorship. The written space is 93 x 65 mm.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Subject: 
Christianity
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered: 
England
People Covered: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Item Height: 
142 mm
Item Width: 
95 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Kyghtley, Margarett
Provenance: 
Vycary, William
Provenance: 
Wylkes, Thomas
Provenance: 
Dee, John
Provenance: 
Wester[t]on, William
Provenance: 
Page[t], Thomas
Provenance: 
Tenisons, Archbishop (library)
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
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. 409. 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. 19.
Bibliographic Citation: 
Kellogg, A.L. and Talbert, Ernest W., 'The Wyclifite Pater Noster and Ten Commandments, with special reference to English Mss. 85 and 90 in the John Rylands Library', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library , vol. 42, no.2, pp. 345-77.
Bibliographic Citation: 
See also a letter in the John Rylands Library archive from Peter A. Hoare, who was working on Archbishop's Tenison's Library, 27 May 1963.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2008-10-14
Multi Page Number: 
230
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-01
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB