Detail View: Medieval Collection: Title page
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Image Number:
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JRL0811398dc
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Reference Number:
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French MS 142
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Link to Catalogue:
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French Manuscripts
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Image Title:
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Title page
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Parent Work Title:
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La vie et les miracles de Saint Edmund, Roy et Martir Anglais, escrit en vers
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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La vie seint Edmund le Rei
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Translated Parent Work Title:
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Life and miracles of Saint Edmund, English king and martyr, written in verse.
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Creator:
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Piramus, Denis, active 1173-1200
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Display Creator:
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Denis Piramus, fl. late 12th cent.
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Date Created:
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13th-14th century
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Page:
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Flyleaf
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Image Sequence Number:
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001l
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Description:
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Before the main text are six paper folios. The first five are blank. On the sixth is the title 'La vie et les miracles de Saint Edmund, Roy et Martir Anglais, escrit en vers' and a Latin inscription; the later has been crossed through. The Latin name of a previous owner (Cobbes) is below with the date 1642.
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Language Code:
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fro
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Subject:
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Anglo-Norman literature
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Subject:
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Hagiography
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Subject:
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Literature, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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Literature, Medieval
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Subject:
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Poetry, Medieval
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Subject:
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Anglo-Norman literature--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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handwriting
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Support:
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Paper
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Creation Site:
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England
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Time Period Covered:
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500 - 1000 CE
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People Covered:
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Edmund, King of East Anglia, 841-870
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Item Height:
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173 mm
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Item Width:
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118 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Cobbes, James
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Provenance:
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Campbell, J. C., Mrs
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Bibliographic Citation:
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Rothwell, William, 'The life and miracles of St Edmund: a recently discovered manuscript', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 60 (1978), 135-80
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Notes:
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Purchased from Mrs J.C. Campbell in 1975.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2008-08-05
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Multi Page Number:
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15
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2009-03
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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