Keywords: Adam lay ybounden.jpg Adam lay ybounden a 15th Century Middle English poem which forms part of the famous Sloane Manuscript BL MS 2593 held in the British Library Digitised by the British Library the 2D manuscript itself is in the public domain by virtue of its age and this image has been cropped to remove any 3D elements of the original higher resolution photograph As this manuscript is held within the British Library and due to its age and fragility is unlikely to be released for public photography this low resolution image is felt to be a fair 2D representation of a historic one-off manuscript for the purposes of criticism of the text by the not-for-profit Wikimedia Foundation in the same manner as other historic single 2D artefacts such as File Ellesmere Manuscript Knight Portrait jpg PD-Art http //www headlesschicken ca/eng204/texts/images/Sloane2593 jpg Anonymous 15th Century scribe digitised by the British Library circa 1400 1500 Medieval literature Literature of England Christmas carols Medieval music |