COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0925137dc
Reference Number:
English MS 103
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Saint (Sent) Edward
Alternative Image Title:
Edward Confessor
Parent Work Title:
Brut Chronicle (1347 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created:
14th century [mid]
Page:
53r
Image Sequence Number:
053r
Description:
The text begins imperfectly in the rubrication at the top of the folio at 'come a(g)ain vnto king Edward'. The header 'Edward confessor' also appears in the top margin. An illuminated initial ' T ' introduces the tale of how two pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land meet John the Evangelist, who bids them take a ring to King Edward, and to tell him that in twelve days he will be in heaven. The written space is c.182 x 112 mm and the script is anglicana formata.
Transcription:
come aȝen vnto king Edward. Cao. Centisimo.xxixno. This noble man sen Edward regnede. xiij. ȝere and þ(us) it bifel vppon a tyme biforn er he deide þat .ij. men of Engelond were wente to þe holy londe and hadden don hire pilg(ri)mage and weren goynge aȝen toward here owene cuntr(e) //And as þey wente in þe weye þey mette a pilg(ri)me þat cur- taisly him saluede and axede of ham in what lande and in what cuntre þey were borne / and þey seyde in Engelond. // þo axede he who was king of Engelond. and þey ansuer de and sayde. þe good king Edward / ffaire freendes þo sayde þe pilg(ri)me. whan þat ȝe come in to ȝoure cuntre aȝen y pray ȝow þat ȝe wolde gon vnto king Edward and ofte tymes him grete in my name and often tymes þanke him of his grete curtesye þ(t) he to me haþ done: and nameleche for þe ryng þat he ȝaf me whanne he had herd masse at Westmynstr(e) for sent Jon(es). loue Eu(au)ngelist and nome þo þe ryng and toke it to þe pilg(ri)mes and sayde J p(ra)y ȝow for to gon and bere þis ryng and take it to king Edward and telle him þ(t). J sende it him and a ful richere ȝifte y wile him ȝeue: ffor vppon þe .xij.(e) day. he shal come to me and eu(er)more duellen in blisse. wiþouten ende // Sire sayde þe pilg(ri)mes what man be ȝe and in what place is ȝoure duellyng // ffaire frendes q(uod) he. J am Jon. þe Eu(au)ngelist & am duellynge with almighty god: and ȝoure king Edward ys my frende and J loue him specially. for enchesou(~) þat he hath euere leued in clennesse and is clene mayde: and J p(ra)y ȝow my message al for to don as y haue to ȝow sayde // Whan sent Joh(au)n þe Eu(au)ngelist had þus ham charged sodeynleche he voydede out of hire sighte. þe pilg(ri)mes þo þankede al- myghty god and wenten forþ in hire way // And whanne þey had go .ij. or .iij. myle þey bigonne to wexen wery and seten adoun ham for to reste and so þey felle aslepe and whanne þey had slept wel: on of ham awoke and lefte vp his heued an lokede aboute and sayde vnto his felawe
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
Time Period Covered:
1000 - 1200 CE
Places Covered:
England
People Covered:
Edmund I, King of England, -946
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:
575
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2010-06
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Saint (Sent) Edward
