COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0925056dc
Reference Number:
English MS 103
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
King Leir turns to Cordeill
Parent Work Title:
Brut Chronicle (1347 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created:
14th century [mid]
Page:
12v
Image Sequence Number:
012v
Description:
The story of King Leir (Lear) and how he is driven out of his kingdom by his daughters Gonerille (Corneil) and Rigan and how he turns to his third daughter Cordeill (Cordelia), Queen of France, for help. There is a small hole in the vellum. The written space is c.182 x 112 mm and the script is anglicana formata.
Transcription:
me glosede þo : and now of me þey sette litel pris and soþ tolde me Cordeill . but y wolde nought bileue it ne vnderstonde : and þerfore y lete hir gon fram me as a þing þat y sette litel pris of and now wote j neu(er) what for to don sith my . ij . doughtres haue me þus desceyued þat j so muche louede . And now mote y nedes sechen hire þat is in anoþ(er) londe þat lightly j lete hire gon fro me withoute eny rewarde of ȝiftes and she seide þat she louede me as she oughte hir fad(er) by al man(er) resou(~) : and þo j shuld haue axed of hire no more and þo þat me oþ(er)wise bihighten þorugh hir fals speche now haue me desceyued . // Jn þis man(er) Leir long tyme him bigan to maken his mone and atte laste he shoop him to þe see and passed ouer in to ff(ra)unce and axede and aspyede where þe queene mighte be fou(~)- de and men tolde where þat she was // And whanne he come to þe citee þat she was inne p(ri)ueleche he sente hi(s) squier to þ(e) que- ne to telle hire þat hire fader was comen to hire for grete nede . // And whan þe Squier come to þe quene he tolde hire eu(er)y del of hire sustres fram þe bigynnynge to þe ende // Cordeill the quene anon nome golde & silu(er) gret plente & tok it to þ(e) sq(ui)er in coun- sail þ(t) he shulde gon & bere it vnto hir fad(er) & þ(t) he shulde go in to a c(er)teyn citee and him arrayen baþen and washen and þanne come aȝen to hire and bringe with him an honeste companye of knigh tes fourty att þe leste with hire manye and þanne he shulde sen- de to hire lord þe king and seyn þat he were comen for to spe ke with his doughter and him and to seen // And whanne þe king and þe quene herde þat þei come wiþ muchel hono(ur) and him resceyuede wiþ muchel honour . þe king of ff(ra)unce þo lete sende þorugh al his reame and comaunded þat alle men shulde to him ben entendaunt to Leir þe quene fader in alle maner þing as it were to him self // Whanne Leir had duelled þere a mounthe and more he tolde to þe king and to þe quene his dought(er) how his tueyn eldest doughtres had him serued // Agampe anon lete ordeyne a g(re)te host of ff(ra)unce and sent hit in to . britaigne with leir þe quenes
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
People Covered:
Lear, King (Legendary character)
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:
170
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2010-06
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
King Leir turns to Cordeill
