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Detail View: Medieval Collection: First epistle of Peter

Image Number: 
JRL0919444dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 81
Previous Accession Number: 
R4995
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
First epistle of Peter
Parent Work Title: 
New Testament
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Later Version Wycliffe New Testament
Creator: 
Peter, the Apostle, Saint
Creator Role: 
Author
Creator Attribution: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Display Creator: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Date Created: 
14th century [late]
Page: 
94v
Image Sequence Number: 
094v
Description: 
First epistle of Peter: chapters one and two. A pen-flourished initial 'T' in blue and red ink introduces the next chapter. Believers in Christ shall have joy and gladness. Be as innocent newborns without malice. The written space is c. 207 x 133 mm in two columns.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Bible. N.T. Epistles
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.--Versions
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.
Subject: 
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject: 
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Religion
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
People Covered: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
People Covered: 
Peter, the Apostle, Saint
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: 
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.
References: 
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.19.
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: 
1020
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