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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Mirrour of sinners

Image Number: 
JRL0911438dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 412
Previous Accession Number: 
R61716
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Mirrour of sinners
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: 
34v
Image Sequence Number: 
034v
Description: 
Mirrour of sinners. The text begins '[F]or þt we ben in þe wey..'. There is a note in the margin in the hand of John Stow, next to the space left for the unexecuted initial 'F'. 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: 
Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Religion
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered: 
England
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): 
2009-02-27
Multi Page Number: 
535
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