Detail View: Medieval Collection: Inside upper cover binding

Image Number: 
JRL0911119dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 102
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Inside upper cover binding
Parent Work Title: 
Marlborough Brut Chronicle
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
The Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created: 
15th century
Page: 
Inside upper cover
Image Sequence Number: 
001b
Description: 
Inside upper cover: brown calfskin on rag board. There is some ink annotation including part of the signature of 'George Leigh Wasey'. There are two letters attached, one of which has come loose.
Language Code: 
eng-GB
Subject: 
Autographs
Subject: 
Bookbinding
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Calfskin
Support: 
Paper
Places Covered: 
England
Item Height: 
322 mm
Item Width: 
237 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Colepeper, Thomas
Provenance: 
Ley, James, Sir, of Westbury, afterwards Earl of Marlborough.
Provenance: 
Hales, John
Provenance: 
Wodward, Lionelius
Provenance: 
Kyng, Johannes
Provenance: 
Wasey, George Lea
Provenance: 
Young, Willelmus
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
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. 416-17. 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.22.
Cost: 
Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London booksellers J. & J. Leighton for £22.10s on 18 June 1908.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-02-18
Multi Page Number: 
10
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-06
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB