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Detail View: Medieval Collection: On the Creed

Image Number: 
JRL0911371dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 412
Previous Accession Number: 
R61716
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
On the Creed
Parent Work Title: 
Pore Caitif
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Pore Catiiff
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Poore Caitiff
Translated Parent Work Title: 
Poor Wretch
Creator Attribution: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Display Creator: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Date Created: 
15th century [c.1400]
Page: 
1r
Image Sequence Number: 
001r
Description: 
Treatise on the Creed. Incipit: the text begins imperfectly 'þe þridde is sorowe'. The notes on this folio are said to be in the hand of Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore. There is some red rubrication. The written space is 145 x 90 mm, 31-2 long lines and the script is anglicana formata by one hand throughout.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
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: 
204 mm
Item Width: 
141 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Percy, Thomas, Bishop of Dromore (there are notes in his hand on folio 1).
Provenance: 
Stow, John (identified by Ker).
Provenance: 
Wake, Henry Thomas, Quaker bookseller of Fritchley near Derby.
Provenance: 
Green, Joseph Joshua
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), pp. 425-26. 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.49.
Bibliographic Citation: 
Trivedi, Kalpen Dinkarray, 'Traditionality and difference: a study of the textual traditions of the "Pore Caitif"' (University of Manchester, Ph.D. thesis, 2002).
Cost: 
Purchased by the John Rylands Library from Mrs E. Green on 17 January 1927 for £10.00.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-03-04
Multi Page Number: 
200
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-06
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval