COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0926295dc
Reference Number:
English MS 103
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
King Edward III
Alternative Image Title:
Sir Roger Mortimer
Parent Work Title:
Brut Chronicle (1347 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created:
14th century [mid]
Page:
115r
Image Sequence Number:
115r
Description:
The words ' Edward 3 ' are written in the top margin. The tale of the pride of Roger Mortimer, and how he was called the King of Folly, of how he called a meeting around a round table like King Arthur, and of the contrast between him and King Arthur. Red rubrication and an illuminated initial ' A ' introduce the tale of Edmund of Woodstock. The written space is c.182 x 112 mm and the script is anglicana formata.
Transcription:
þey seide amonges ham alle com(~)unely þat his p(ri)de shulde noughte longe endure // And þe same time S(ire) Giffray þe Mortymer þe ȝonge þat was þe Mortymers sone lete him calle king of folye: and so it bifelle aftirward in dede // For he was so fulle of pride and of wrecchednesse: þ(t) he held a rounde table in walis to alle men þ(t) þider wolde come and counterfetede þe manere & doynge of king Arthurus table but openly he faillede: for þe noble knyght Arthur was most worþy lord of renoun þ(t) was in al þe worlde in his time and ȝit come neuere non such aftir him: for alle þe noble knyȝ tes þorugh c(ri)stendome of dede of armeȝ alosede duellede w(t) king Arthur and helde him for hire lorde: and þ(t) was wel sene for he conquerede in bataile a romayn þ(t) me callede Frolle and gette of him þe reaume of F(ra)unce and queld hy(~) w(t) his handes // And also he faught w(t) a geaunt þ(t) me callede Dynabus and quelde him þ(t) had rauisshed þ(e) faire Heleyne. þ(t) was king Hoelles nece king of litel Britaigne: and aftirward he quelde in bataile þe Emp(er)our of Rome þat me callede lucye þat had assemble aȝens king Arthur for to fighte with him so muche peple of Romayns and of Peihtis and of Saracenes þ(t) no man couþ(e) ham numbr(e) and he des- comfitede ham alle as þe storie of him more plenerloker tel- leth // And in þe same time comune loos spronge in Enge londe þorugh coniectinge and ordinaunce of þe frer p(re)cho(ur)s þat S(ire) Edward of Carnariuan þ(t) was king Edwardes fader of whom þe geste telleth saiden þ(t) he was alife in þe Cas- tel of Corf wherfore alle þe co(~)munes almost of Engelond were in sorwe and drede wheþ(er) þat it were so or were noght þey wiste neu(er)e how þe Mortim(er) traitoursly had him done mordred How Edmund of Wodestocke þat was erl of kent and þe kinges broþ(er) Edwarde of Carnari uan was biheueded at Wynchestr(e) Capitulo .CC(mo). XX(mo). And vppon a time it bifelle so þat S(ir) Edmunde of Wodestoke erl of kent spak vnto
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:
Illumination (image-making process)
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1200 - 1500 CE
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:
1195
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2010-10
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
King Edward III
