COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0906196dc
Reference Number:
English MS 895
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Descent into hell
Parent Work Title:
Process of The Passion; The Gospel of Nicodemus
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Acta Pilate
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Acts of Pilate
Date Created:
15th century
Page:
119r
Image Sequence Number:
119r
Description:
Gospel of Nicodemus: the text jumps here to the narrative of the descent into hell, which is related and written down by Karinus and Leucius. The text is imperfect beginning at the point of the preparation in hell for the coming of Jesus. All the prophets and holy men rejoice at the coming of Jesus. The written space is 140 x 65 mm in a secretary-influenced short-r anglicana formata.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Religion
Subject:
Christianity
Subject:
Theology--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Subject:
Apocryphal Gospels
Subject:
Apocryphal books (New Testament)
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1 BCE - 500 CE
People Covered:
Jesus Christ
Item Height:
233 mm
Item Width:
140 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Dunn, George, of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead.
Provenance:
Taylor, Thomas
Provenance:
Hockmon, John
Provenance:
Senleger, John, Sir
Provenance:
Freme, Henry
Provenance:
Worthye, Roberte
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.28.
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. 426-27. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
Bibliographic Citation:
Hulme, William Henry (ed.), 'The Middle-English Harrowing of hell and Gospel of Nicodemus', Early English Text Society, Extra Series, vol. 100 (London: 1907), pp. xxxii sqq.
Notes:
British Library Egerton MS 2658 and Stonyhurst College Manuscript 43 B. xliii both contain the same pieces or piece, but are in different dialects, somewhat later in date, and do not contain the marginal additions mentioned, see bibliography note above. Photographs from the Stonyhurst manuscript supplying the text of the missing folios of the Rylands manuscript may be consulted in the Library as they have been made with the kind permission of the Rev. Fr. Rector of Stonyhurst.
Cost:
Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London booksellers Maggs Bros for £30.00 in February 1937.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2008-12-10
Multi Page Number:
1195
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-04
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Medieval
Descent into hell
