Detail View: Medieval Collection: Leges Angliae

Image Number: 
JRL1001545dc
Reference Number: 
Latin MS 155
Image Title: 
Leges Angliae
Parent Work Title: 
Leges Angliae
Date Created: 
12th century
Page: 
128r
Image Sequence Number: 
128r
Description: 
Text from Leges Angliae. Head-line in a smaller script: 'De primo Stephano Rege'. The text then begins with an illuminated initial 'H' on a blue ground edged with red: 'Huic successit Stephanus...quam construxerat'. Another head-line in a smaller script: 'Carta primi Stephani Regis'. Text then begins with an illuminated initial 'S' on a blue ground edged with red: 'Stephanus dei gratia Rex Anglie...Willelmo Martel Apud London'. Line-fillings consisting of blue waved lines with short curling branches. Twenty-four lines to a page.
Language Code: 
lat-GB
Subject: 
Law, Medieval--Manuscripts
Subject: 
Great Britain--History
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Technique Used: 
Illumination (image-making process)
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1000 - 1200 CE
Item Height: 
215 mm
Item Width: 
155 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
References: 
James, M.R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (Munich, 1980)
Notes: 
There are marginal and interlinear annotations throughout the manuscript: some are by a sixteenth-century hand in Latin and Law French; others by a late thirteenth-century hand in Latin.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-09-23
Multi Page Number: 
1275
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2011-04
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB