Detail View: Medieval Collection: Gospel of Luke
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Image Number:
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JRL0912006dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 81
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Previous Accession Number:
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R4995
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Gospel of Luke
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Alternative Image Title:
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Presentation at the temple
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Parent Work Title:
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New Testament
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Later Version Wycliffe New Testament
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Creator:
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Luke, Saint
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator Attribution:
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Wycliffe, John, -1384
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Display Creator:
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Wycliffe, John, -1384
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Date Created:
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14th century [late]
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Page:
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36r
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Image Sequence Number:
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036r
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Description:
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Gospel of Luke: chapters two and three. A pen-flourished initial 'F' in blue and red ink introduces the next chapter. Jesus is taken to Jerusalem to be presented at the temple as was the Jewish custom. At the temple the holy family meet Simeon, a man who has been told he will not die until he sees the Messiah. The written space is c. 207 x 133 mm in two columns.
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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Subject:
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Religion
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Subject:
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Christianity
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Subject:
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Bible--Manuscripts, English
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Subject:
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Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
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Subject:
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Bible. N.T.
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Subject:
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Bible. N.T. Gospels
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Subject:
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Bible. N.T.--Versions
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Vellum
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Time Period Covered:
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1 BCE - 500 CE
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Places Covered:
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Israel: Jerusalem
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People Covered:
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Jesus Christ
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People Covered:
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Wycliffe, John, -1384
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People Covered:
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Simeon (Biblical figure)
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People Covered:
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Joseph, Saint
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People Covered:
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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
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Item Height:
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270 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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Danvers, Anne, Dame, "widowe, sumtyme wyffe to Sr William Danvers, knyght, hoose soule God assoyle hathe gevyn this present Booke unto mastre confessor and his Bretherne encloosed in Syon, etc."
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Provenance:
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Wilson, Lea
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Provenance:
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Reynolds, Edward (Fellow of Merton 1620 and warden 1660-1, bishop of Norwich 1661-76)
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Provenance:
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Simonson, William, fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
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Provenance:
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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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References:
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.19.
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References:
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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. 406-7. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
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Bibliographic Citation:
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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.156.
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Bibliographic Citation:
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Published as 'The New Testament in English translated by John Wycliffe circa MCCCLXXX : now first printed from a contemporary manuscript formerly in the monastery of Sion Middlesex late in the collection of Lea Wilson FSA' (Chiswick: William Pickering, 1848).
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Bibliographic Citation:
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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)
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Notes:
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See English Manuscript 902 for transcript made by Mr. Lea Wilson.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-04-15
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Multi Page Number:
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435
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2009-07
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Medieval
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