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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Gospel of Luke

Image Number: 
JRL0927670dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 3
Previous Accession Number: 
Crawford MS 3
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Gospel of Luke
Parent Work Title: 
Wycliffe Gospels
Creator: 
Luke, Saint
Creator Role: 
Author
Creator Attribution: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Display Creator: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Date Created: 
15th century [early]
Page: 
10v
Image Sequence Number: 
010v
Description: 
Gospel of Luke: chapter one. The written space is 130 x 82 mm and the script is a fairly large textura.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Bible. N.T. Gospels
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.--Versions
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.
Subject: 
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject: 
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject: 
Christianity
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
Item Height: 
173 mm
Item Width: 
120 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
Provenance: 
Dix, James, of Bristol
Provenance: 
Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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. 400 -1. 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. 8.
Notes: 
According to the title page the manuscript was a present to Queen Elizabeth from Francis Newport.
Cost: 
Purchased from James Dix by the Earl of Crawford through the offices of Bernard Quaritch, London bookseller.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-08-18
Multi Page Number: 
160
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-10
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval