Detail View: Medieval Collection: King John
|
Image Number:
|
JRL0926197dc
|
|
Reference Number:
|
English MS 103
|
|
Link to Catalogue:
|
|
|
Image Title:
|
King John
|
|
Parent Work Title:
|
Brut Chronicle (1347 Continuation)
|
|
Alternative Parent Work Title:
|
Brute or the Chronicles of England
|
|
Date Created:
|
14th century [mid]
|
|
Page:
|
66r
|
|
Image Sequence Number:
|
066r
|
|
Description:
|
The word 'John' is written in the top margin of the folio, and there is a small hole in the vellum. The tale of how the two legates arrive in England from Rome, and how King John will not agree to having Stephen as the Archbishop of Canterbury. The written space is c.182 x 112 mm and the script is anglicana formata.
|
|
Transcription:
|
to North(a)mpton(~). þere þat he helde his p(ar)lement: and ful curteisly þey him saluede and saiden. sire we beþ comen fro þe pope of Rome þe pees of holy chirche and of þe lande for to amende // And we moueste ȝow ferst in þe Popes half þat ȝe make ful restituciou(~) of þe goodes þat ȝe haue rauisshed of holy chir che and of þe lande and þat ȝe vnderfonge Stephene Erche- bisshop of Kaunterbery in to his dignite. and þe. priour of Kaunterb(er)y and his monk(es). and þat ȝe ȝelde aȝen vnto þe Er- chebisshop alle his landes and rentes wiþouten ony withhol dynge // And sire ȝet more ouer þ(t) ȝe such restituciou(~) ham make as holy chirche shal halde hire paied // þo ansuerde þe king as touchinge þe P(ri)our and his monk(es) of Kaunt(er)bery al þat ȝe haue saide y wil gladly do. and al þing þat ȝe wil ordeigne // But as touching(e) þe Erchebisshop y shal telle ȝow in myn herte as hit lith: þat þe Erchebisshop lete his Bisshop riche. and þat þe pope þan for him wolde praye: and þanne vppon auenture me shulde like som oþ(er) bisshopriche for to ȝeue him in Engelond and vppon þis condiciou(~). J wolde him res ceyue and vndirfonge // And naþeles in Engelond as Erche- bisshop ȝif he abyde: he shal neu(er)e haue so good saf conduit þat he ne shal ben take // þo sayde Pandolf vnto þe king: holy chirche was woned neu(er)e to disgrade Erchebisshop wiþ- oute cause resonable. but eu(er)e sche was woned to chastise p(ri)n- ces þ(t) to god and holy chirche were inobedient // What how now q(uod) þe king. manace ȝe me // Nay seide Pandolf but ȝe now openliche haue tolde how it standeth in ȝour(e) herte // and to ȝow we wile telle what is þe popes wille and þus it standeth þat he haþ ȝow holly enterdited and accursed for þe wronges þ(t) ȝe haue done to holy cherche and to þ(e) clergye: and for as muche as ȝe duelleth and beþ in wille to abyde in ȝoure malice and wile nouȝt come to non amendement ȝe shal vnderstonde þat fro þis tyme aftirward þe sentence is vppon ȝow ȝeuen: and halt stede & strengthe: and vppon alle þo þat with ȝow haue co(~)muned bifore þis tyme wheþ(er)
|
|
Language Code:
|
enm-GB
|
|
Subject:
|
Great Britain--History
|
|
Subject:
|
Catholic Church
|
|
Subject:
|
Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
|
|
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:
|
England
|
|
People Covered:
|
John, King of England, 1167-1216
|
|
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:
|
705
|
|
Image Creation Technique:
|
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
|
|
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
|
2010-06
|
|
Metadata Language:
|
eng-GB
|