Detail View: Medieval Collection: King Pedro's daughters wed English nobles

Image Number: 
JRL0911320dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 102
Previous Accession Number: 
R15384
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
King Pedro's daughters wed English nobles
Parent Work Title: 
Marlborough Brut Chronicle
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
The Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created: 
15th century
Page: 
99r
Image Sequence Number: 
099r
Description: 
The story of how the daughters of King Pedro of Spain married English nobles, and also of the Siege of Rochelle, in France. Red rubrication introduces the tale. Written space is 235 x 190 mm, 2 columns with 34 lines. The script is in a secretary hand with some influence from anglicana.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Great Britain--History
Subject: 
Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
Subject: 
Spain--History
Subject: 
France--History--14th century
Subject: 
Chronicles of England
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered: 
France: La Rochelle
Places Covered: 
England
Places Covered: 
Spain
People Covered: 
Pedro I, King of Castile and Leon, 1334-1369
Item Height: 
322 mm
Item Width: 
237 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Ley, James, Sir, of Westbury, afterwards Earl of Marlborough.
Provenance: 
Colepeper, Thomas
Provenance: 
Hales, John
Provenance: 
Wodward, Lionelius
Provenance: 
Wasey, George Lea
Provenance: 
Kyng, Johannes
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.
Bibliographic Citation: 
Brie, Friedrich W. D., 'The Brut, or, the Chronicles of England / edited from Ms. Rawl. B 171, Bodleian Library &c.', (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner for the Early English Text Society, 1906-1908)
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: 
1015
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-06
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB