Manchester. The John Rylands Library, English MS 92
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- English MS 92
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- End 14th/beginning 15th century
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- Middle English
- Title
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- Apocalypse with commentary
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- John Wycliffe (1330-1384)
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- John Wyclif?
- John Wyclif
- John Wycliffe (1320-1384), et al.
- Wycliffe, John, -1384
- John Wycliffe
- Wyclif, Johannes
- Johannes Wyclif (1324-1384)
- Wycliffe, John,-1384, author
- John Wycliffe -1384
- John Wycliffe, -1384
- Wycliffe, John (-1384)
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- Edward Dering (1598-1644)
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- Former owner
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- Sir Edward Dering 1598-1644
- Dering, Edward, Sir, 1598-1644
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- Bertram Ashburnham (1797-1878)
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- Former owner
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- Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham 1797-1878
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of, 1797-1878.
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- Ashburnham (comte d')
- Ashburnham, Bertram (1797-1878)
- Bertram Ashburnham
- Lord Ashburnham
- Ashburnam
- Comte d’Ashburnham
- Comte d'Ashburnham
- Quatrième comte d'Ashburnham
- Lord Ashburnham
- Bertram Ashburnham, comte d'Ashburnham (1797-1878)
- Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878)
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878, former owner.
- Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, 1797-1878
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, earl of, 1797-1878
- Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham.
- Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham
- Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham Earl of (1797-1878)
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- Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928)
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- Former owner
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- Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928
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- Henry Yates Thompson
- Thompson, Henry Yates (1838-1928)
- Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928)
- Former possessor: Henry Yates Thompson
- Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928, former owner.
- Henry Yates Thompson, 1838-1928
- Henry Yates Thompson.
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- Enriqueta Augustina Rylands (1843-1908)
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- Enriqueta Rylands
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- Description
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- Extent:
46 folios (ii+46+iii) Leaf height: 208 mm, width: 133 mm.
Binding:
Reversed calf, blocked in gold with the arms of Sir Edward Dering on both covers, red goakskin lettering pieces on spine, 17th century.
Decoration:
One 3-line initial in blue ink with red penwork flourishes on folio 1r; numerous 2-line initials in red.
Acquisition:
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1897 from , and later transferred to the John Rylands Library. Accession no. R4988.
Layout:
Written height: 140 mm, width: 87 mm.
Collation:
Quire 1-58,
Quire 68 lacking 7, 8 blank.
Quires are numbered, with the leaf numbers written below the quire numbers.
Secundo folio:of holi chirche
Script:
Written in gothic textura
Subject(s):
Religion; Christianity; Bible Manuscripts, English; Bible. English (Middle English) Versions Wycliffe; Bible. New Testament
Abstract:
Apocalypse, with the text interspersed with commentaries, but without prologues.Apocalypse with commentary, bearing certain similarities to the earlier Wycliffe version, but with many differences. Collated, but not fully, as Ry, by Fridner, An English fourteenth century apocalypse version (see Bibliography below). Modernized as compared with Fridner's base text. Each section of text is underlined in red and followed by a section of commentary. There are usually three or four sections in each chapter. The commentary begins 'Þe openynge of seint ioon bitokeneþ prelatis of holi chirche' and ends 'in bodi and in soule and dwelle wiþ him wiþouten ende AMEN'.
Foliation:
Foliated 1-47 (modern foliation).
Format:
Codex
Material:
ParchmentPaper flyleaves
Provenance:
Sir Edward Dering 1598-1644, antiquary and religious controversialist. 'Edoardus Dering Miles et Baronettus' surrounds the arms of Dering on the front cover The Dering shelfmark 'L. 1. 8' is inside the front cover. Sale of the Surrenden (Dering) collection at Puttick and Simpson, 8 June 1858, lot 1596.
Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham 1797-1878 Appendix no. 26.
He purchased the Ashburnham Appendix in May 1897 and almost immediately resold the manuscript to Mrs Rylands.
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- Angleterre
- Angleterre (?)
- Angleterre.
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- Anglaterra
- Inglaterra
- Engeland
- Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
- Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
- Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
- England (Salisbury?)
- [Oxford?]
- [England]
- England, Norwich?
- England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
- England, Cornwall?
- England, St. Albans?
- England, North?
- England, York?
- England, Witham?
- England, Winchester or St. Albans
- England, Reading or Leominster
- England, Cirencester?
- England, Sherborne?
- England, Worcester?
- England, Bury St. Edmunds?
- England, Tewkesbury?
- England, East Anglia?
- England, Peterborough?
- England, Mercia?
- England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
- England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
- England, Winchester?
- England, Oxford?
- Flanders (possibly executed in England)
- England and Netherlands
- England, Canterbury?
- England, West Midlands?
- England, London?
- England, Crowland?
- England, Wessex?
- England, Reading?
- England, Northeast?
- England, Southeast?
- England, Ely?
- England, Winchester or Hereford?
- England, Salisbury?
- England, Oxford or Salisbury
- German (but made in England)
- England, South East (?)
- England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
- Hereford?, England
- England, Durham ?
- England, Durham?
- England, probably Durham
- England, Oxford (?)
- England, possibly Oxford
- England (?Oxford)
- England, Durham (?)
- England, London/Westminster
- Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
- Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
- Engeland (?)
- England (II)
- I. England
- [Engeland]
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