COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0926184dc
Reference Number:
English MS 103
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
King Stephen
Alternative Image Title:
Empress Maud
Parent Work Title:
Brut Chronicle (1347 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created:
14th century [mid]
Page:
59v
Image Sequence Number:
059v
Description:
The word 'Stephen' appears in the top margin of the folio. The tale of how Stephen takes the city of Lincoln. Red rubrication and an illuminated initial ' W ' introduce the tale of how King Stephen and the Empress Maud wage war upon each other. The written space is c.182 x 112 mm and the script is anglicana formata.
Transcription:
ascapede away wiþoute ony manere harme. and þo toke þe king þe citee and duellede þ(er)inne til Candelmasse // And þo come þe Barouns þat helde wiþ þe Emp(er)esse. þat is for to say þe Erl Randulphe of Chestr(e). þe Erl Robert of Gloucestr(e). Hugh. Bygot. Robert of Moleye. and broughte w(t) ham a strong poer How Maude þe Emp(er)esse wente fro Wynchestr(e) vnto Oxen- forde and after she ascapede to Wallyngford and what sorwe and disese she hadde Capitulo vjxx xixno. Whanne þe king was taken and brought in to warde in the castel of Bristow þis Maude þe Emp(er)esse anon was made lady of Engelond and alle men helde hire for lady of þe lande // But þo of kent helde with king Stephenes wyf and also William of Pree. and his retenu halpe ham and helde werre aȝens Maude þe Emp(er)esse: and anon after þ(e) king of Scotland come to ham wiþ an huge numbr(e) of peple. & þo wente þey yfere vnto Wynchestr(e) þere þat þe Emp(er)esse was and wolde haue taken hire: but þe Erl of Gloucestr(e) come w(t) his poer and faught wiþ ham: and þe Emp(er)esse in þe mene while þat þe bataile durede scapede fro þennes and wente vn to Oxenford and þere hire helde and in þat bataile was þe Erl of Gloucestr(e) descomfited and taken and wiþ him meny oþ(er)e lordes // And for his delyu(er)aunce was king Stephene de- lyuered out of p(ri)sonne. and whanne he was delyuered out of p(ri)soun. he wente þennes to Oxenford and bisegede þe Emp(er) esse: þat was þo at Oxenford. and þe sege endurede fro migheles masse vnto sent Andrewes tyde // And þ(e) Emp(er)esse lete þo cloþen hire al in white lynen cloth for enchesou(~) þat she wolde nouȝt ben knowe: for in þe same tyme þere was muchel of snowe and so she ascapede by þe thamyse fram ham away þat were hire enemys and fro þennes she wente to Wallyngforde and þere hire helde // And þe king wolde haue biseged hire: but he had so muche to done w(t) þe Erl Randolphe of Chestr(e). and with Hughe Bygod þ(t) strongleche werrede vppon him in eu(er)y place þat he nyste whider for to
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
Subject:
Great Britain--History
Subject:
Chronicles of England
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1000 - 1200 CE
Places Covered:
England
People Covered:
Stephen, King of England, 1097?-1154
People Covered:
Matilda, Empress, consort of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1102-1167
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:
640
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 Stephen
