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  • 1
    Canterbury Tales Fragment
    2nd half 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 63
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Chaucer Geoffrey.
    Extent:1 volume. iv + 2 + iv folios. Dimensions: 272 x 195 mm. A bifolium, leaves 2 and 7 in a quire, if the quire was of 8 leaves. Medium: vellum; paper flyleaves. Binding: quarter-bound in brown morocco, marbled paper-covered boards, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, for the John Rylands Library
    Language:Middle English
  • 2
    Frederic Madden Collection
    18th and 19th centuries
    Ref:GB 133 MAD
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Sir Frederic Madden.
    Extent:5 subfonds
  • 3
    Wycliffe Gospels
    Beginning 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 3
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Unknown.
    Extent:1 volume. xii + 200 + iii folios (including a slip, f. 47), foliated 7-206 (modern foliation). Dimensions: 173 x 120 mm. Collation of ff. 7-206: 1-4 8, 5 8 plus a slip after 8 (f. 47), 6-16 8, 17 6 (ff. 136-41), 18-24 8, 25 10 lacking 10, blank. Medium: vellum. Binding: full black morocco with silver ornaments and two silver clasps, 19th century
    Language:Middle English
  • 4
    Transcript of an Early Version of Wyclif's New Testament
    Mid 19th Century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 902
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Lea Wilson.
    Extent:325 x 208 mm. 1 volume (246 + xxiv folios);
    Language:English
  • 5
    Libelle of English Policy
    16th Century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 955
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Unknown.
    Extent:217 x 158 mm. 1 volume (27 folios); Binding: limp parchment covers
    Language:Middle English and English
  • 6
    Later Version Wycliffe Bible
    1st half 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 91
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Unknown.
    Extent:1 volume. 272 folios, foliated 1-272 (modern foliation). Dimensions: 380 x 270 mm. Collation: 1 8 plus one leaf after 8, 2-19 8, 20-21 6 (ff. 154-65), 22-34 8, 35 4 lacking 4, blank. Condition: some damage caused by dampness, mainly in the middle of the volume. Medium: vellum. Binding: wooden boards, bevelled on the inside, 'earlier probably than the crimson velvet which covers them' (Ker); a hole in the middle of each piece of velvet reveals a blurred coloured armorial on the board, framed by a gilt leather centrepiece surround; bosses on each corner; 2 clasps
    Language:Middle English
  • 7
    Wycliffe Old Testament
    Beginning 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 89
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of author unknown.
    Extent:1 volume. i + 90 + i folios, foliated 1-90 (modern foliation). Dimensions: 140 x 100 mm. Collation: 1 8, 2 2 (ff. 9-10), 3-12 8. Medium: vellum. Binding: bound by Douglas Cockerell in blind-tooled chestnut morocco over oak boards, single clasp, dated 1901
    Language:Middle English
  • 8
    Later Version Wycliffe Psalms
    2nd half 15th century
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 88
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: Unknown.
    Extent:1 volume. vii + 74 + iii folios, foliated (i-vii), 1-74. Dimensions: 170 x 113 mm. Collation: 1-8 8, 9 two (9 8 lacking 2-7?), 10 8. Medium: vellum; paper flyleaves. Binding: 18th-century black morocco, tooled in gilt on the spine with the armorial of David Garrick
    Language:Middle English
  • 9
    Ashburnham Wycliffe Collection
    Late 14th to 15th centuries
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MSS 75-87, 92
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Collector: Bertram Ashburnham 4th Earl of Ashburnham 1797-1878.
    Extent:14 items
    Language:Middle English