COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0906410dc
Reference Number:
English MS 206
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Prologue
Alternative Image Title:
How England was first called Albion
Parent Work Title:
Brut Chronicle (1326 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created:
14th-15th century
Page:
3r
Image Sequence Number:
003r
Description:
Incipit: 'Here may a man heren how that Englonde was first called Albion and thurgh whom it had the name.' There is space for an initial which has been left unexecuted. There is thick black rubrication and a number of ink jottings on the page, including some arithmetic in the space left for the initial. The written space is c.197 x 118 mm in a good secretary hand which is the same throughout.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
Subject:
Chronicles of England
Subject:
Great Britain--History
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Places Covered:
England
Item Height:
263 mm
Item Width:
192 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Banister, Mergret
Provenance:
Parker Coke, Daniel, Fellow of All Souls, Oxford.
Provenance:
Peell, John, of Stokes, Notts
Provenance:
Campinet, William, of Kilworty (?) Yorks
Provenance:
Kyechyner, William
Provenance:
Fann van moter, Will
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
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), pp. 421-22. 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.36.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-02-03
Multi Page Number:
55
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-04
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Prologue
