G-VVM4M3Z5F5

Detail View: Medieval Collection: Gospel of John

Image Number: 
JRL0912062dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 81
Previous Accession Number: 
R4995
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Gospel of John
Alternative Image Title: 
Jews stone Jesus
Parent Work Title: 
New Testament
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Later Version Wycliffe New Testament
Creator: 
John, the Apostle, Saint
Creator Role: 
Author
Creator Attribution: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Display Creator: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Date Created: 
14th century [late]
Page: 
64r
Image Sequence Number: 
064r
Description: 
Gospel of John: chapters ten and eleven. A pen-flourished initial 'T' in blue and red ink introduces the next chapter. Jesus tells the Pharisees that he has shown them the works he has done in the name of his Father and they have not believed in him. The Jews throw stones at him and Jesus leaves for Jordan. The written space is c. 207 x 133 mm in two columns.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.--Versions
Subject: 
Bible. N.T. Gospels
Subject: 
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.
Subject: 
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Christianity
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
Places Covered: 
Israel: No Man's Land
Places Covered: 
Jordan: No Man's Land
People Covered: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
People Covered: 
Jesus Christ
Item Height: 
270 mm
Item Width: 
192 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Wilson, Lea
Provenance: 
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."
Provenance: 
Reynolds, Edward (Fellow of Merton 1620 and warden 1660-1, bishop of Norwich 1661-76)
Provenance: 
Simonson, William, fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
Provenance: 
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.19.
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. 406-7. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
Bibliographic Citation: 
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.
Bibliographic Citation: 
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).
Notes: 
See English Manuscript 902 for transcript made by Mr. Lea Wilson.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-04-15
Multi Page Number: 
715
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-07
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval