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Detail View: Medieval Collection: On the Ten Commandments

Image Number: 
JRL0903231dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 87
Previous Accession Number: 
R5001
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
On the Ten Commandments
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
Page: 
17v
Image Sequence Number: 
017v
Description: 
Treatise on the Ten Commandments: the third commandment. The text begins with a pen-flourished initial 'T' in blue and red ink. 'The Poore Caitiff' is a popular collection of treatises wrongly attributed to Wycliffe. The written space is 93 x 65 mm with 22 long lines.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Subject: 
Christianity
Subject: 
Bible. O.T.
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: 
150 mm
Item Width: 
102 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Provenance: 
Ratlyfe, George
Provenance: 
Martin, Thomas
Provenance: 
Dod, Thomas
Provenance: 
Dumbalrd, Richard
Provenance: 
Garard, Myles
Provenance: 
Sapcote, George
Provenance: 
Lowson, George
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. 411 - 12. 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. 20.
Notes: 
'The Pore Caitif' (Poor Wretch), was a popular late fourteenth-century collection of treatises, composed as a manual of religious instruction for the laity.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2008-10-31
Multi Page Number: 
230
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-02
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval