Detail View: Rylands Collection: St Matthew
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Image Number:
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JRL18027715
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Reference Number:
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Latin MS 87
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Image Title:
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St Matthew
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Parent Work Title:
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Evangelia [Bremen]
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Gospel Book of Bremen Cathedral
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Date Created:
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10th century [late]
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Page/Sheet:
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6r
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Image Sequence Number:
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006r
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Description:
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Full page illustration framed in red, silver and gold. St Matthew, bearded, with gold nimbus, sits almost full face, robed in yellow and brown. He holds a roll in his left hand and is writing on a scroll at a desk with his right hand: Liber generotionis ... dauid. A white dove with silver nimbus, flies down from the top right. Behind it is the Divine Hand.
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Language Code:
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lat
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Language:
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Latin
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Subject:
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Christianity
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Subject:
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Religion
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Subject:
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Bible. New Testament
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Miniatures (paintings)
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Technique Used:
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Illumination (image-making process)
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Support:
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Vellum
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People Covered:
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Matthew, the Apostle, Saint
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Item Height:
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242 mm
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Item Width:
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192 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Bateman of Middleton Hall, Youlgrave, Derbyshire, former owner
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester |
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References:
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M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (Munich, 1980)
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2018-02-22
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2018-02
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Educational Notes:
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Exhibition: The Alchemy of Colour
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Academic Project Lead:
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Carol Burrows
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Academic Project Lead:
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Elaine Sheldon
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