COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL1000101dc
Reference Number:
English MS 80
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Gospel of Mark
Alternative Image Title:
Gospel of Luke
Parent Work Title:
New Testament
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Later Version Wycliffe New Testament
Creator:
Luke, Saint
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Mark, Saint
Creator Role:
Author
Creator Attribution:
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Display Creator:
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Date Created:
15th century
Page:
67v
Image Sequence Number:
067v
Description:
Gospel of Mark: the end of chapter sixteen. Red rubrication and a pen-flourished initial 'L' in red and blue ink introduces the prologue to the Gospel of Luke. Red rubrication and a decorated initial 'I' with a floral infill on a burnished gold background introduces the first chapter of the gospel. There is a manicule in the margin. I-shaped border with floriate extensions terminating in acanthus leaves, ivy leaves, bezants, etc.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Bible. N.T.--Versions
Subject:
Bible. N.T. Gospels
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
Item Height:
215 mm
Item Width:
147 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Merry, Anthony
Provenance:
Cullum, John
Provenance:
Marsh, Wilmot, Reverend, of Bangor
Provenance:
Powell, John
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
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), p. 406. 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.18.
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.157.
Bibliographic Citation:
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)
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-09-29
Multi Page Number:
710
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2010-05
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Medieval
Gospel of Mark
