COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0925050dc
Reference Number:
English MS 103
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Daughters of Dioclician
Parent Work Title:
Brut Chronicle (1347 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created:
14th century [mid]
Page:
9v
Image Sequence Number:
009v
Description:
The story of the 33 daughters of King Dioclician (Diocletian), Albyne and her sisters, who were wedded to 33 kings. The text ends imperfectly at the end of this folio at 'þe ladyes herden'. The written space is c.182 x 112 mm and the script is anglicana formata.
Transcription:
þat were hire lordes wolde haue chastisede hire with faire speche ; and by hestes and also for ʒiftes and warnede ham in faire manere vppon al loue and frendshipp . þat þey shulde amen de here luther condiciouns but al it was for nought ; for þey deden here owen will in all þinges þat ham likede and had of poer : wherfore þo xxxiij. kynges . vppon a tyme and often tymes beten hire wifes ; for þey wende þat þey wolde haue amended here tacches and here wikked þewes; but of suche condiciou(~)s þey were ; þat for faire speche and warnynge þey deden þe wers . and for betynges eftsones muche wers. // Wherfore þe kyng þat had wedded Albyne wrote þe tacches and þe condiciouns of his wyf Albyne. and þe lettre sente to Dioclician hire fader // And whanne þe othere kynges herde . þat Albynus lord had sent lettre to Dioclician. anon þey sente lettres enseled with hire seleʒ þe condiciouns and þe tacches of here wyfes // when þe kyng Dioclician saugh and herde so manye playntes of his doughtres; he was sore a- shamed and bycom wonder ang(er) and wroth toward his doughtres and thoughte boþe nyght and day how he þo myghte amende it þat þey so mysdede / and anon sente his lettres vnto þo xxxiij. kynges þat þey shulde come to hy(~) and bringe with ham here wifes eu(er)ychon at certeyn day. for he wolde þere chastise hem of here wickednesse .yf he myghte in eny manere wyse. // So þat þe kynges comen all at þe day and tyme þat þo was set bituene ham . and the kyng Dioclician . ham vnderfenge with muchel hono(ur) . and made a solempne feste . to alle þat weren vnder his lordshipp And þe thrid day of þ(t) sole(~)pnite . þe kyng Dioclician sente for his .xxxiij. doughtres þat þey shulde come and speke w(t) hym in his chambre and whan þey were comen he spak vnto ham of hire wickednesse and of hire cruelte and dis- pitously ham reproued and vndernam and to ham he saide þat ʒif þey wolde nouʒt ben chastised þey shulde his loue lese for euere more . // And whanne þe ladyes herden
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Chronicles of England
Subject:
Great Britain--History
Subject:
Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Places Covered:
England
Item Height:
278 mm
Item Width:
183 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
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), p. 417. 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.23.
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 £36.00 on 18 June 1908.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-07-22
Multi Page Number:
140
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2010-06
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Daughters of Dioclician
