COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0906425dc
Reference Number:
English MS 206
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
King Leir
Parent Work Title:
Brut Chronicle (1326 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created:
14th-15th century
Page:
10v
Image Sequence Number:
010v
Description:
The story of King Leir (Lear) and his three daughters Gonerille (Goneril), Rigan (Regan) and Cordeil (Cordelia). King Leir tests the love of his daughters in order to determine their worthiness to marry well. All three daughters eventually marry well including Cordeil who marries the King of France and is made Queen of France. Thick black rubrication introduces the story of how Leir is driven out of his kingdom by Gonerille and Rigan. The name 'John Peele de Stoke' is written on the bottom of the left margin. The written space is c.197 x 118 mm in a good secretary hand which is the same throughout.
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Great Britain--History
Subject:
Chronicles of England
Subject:
Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Places Covered:
England
People Covered:
Lear, King (Legendary character)
Item Height:
263 mm
Item Width:
192 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Parker Coke, Daniel, Fellow of All Souls, Oxford.
Provenance:
Fann van moter, Will
Provenance:
Campinet, William, of Kilworty (?) Yorks
Provenance:
Peell, John, of Stokes, Notts
Provenance:
Kyechyner, William
Provenance:
Banister, Mergret
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:
130
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-04
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
King Leir
