Detail View: Medieval Collection: Prologue
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Image Number:
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JRL0906410dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 206
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Prologue
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Alternative Image Title:
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How England was first called Albion
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Parent Work Title:
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Brut Chronicle (1326 Continuation)
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Brute or the Chronicles of England
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Date Created:
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14th-15th century
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Page:
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3r
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Image Sequence Number:
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003r
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Description:
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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.
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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Subject:
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Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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Chronicles of England
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Subject:
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Great Britain--History
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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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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Vellum
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Places Covered:
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England
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Item Height:
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263 mm
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Item Width:
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192 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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Banister, Mergret
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Provenance:
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Parker Coke, Daniel, Fellow of All Souls, Oxford.
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Provenance:
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Provenance:
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Peell, John, of Stokes, Notts
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Provenance:
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Campinet, William, of Kilworty (?) Yorks
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Provenance:
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Kyechyner, William
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Provenance:
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Fann van moter, Will
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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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References:
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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.
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References:
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.36.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-02-03
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Multi Page Number:
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55
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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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2009-04
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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