Detail View: Medieval Collection: King Leir
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Image Number:
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JRL0906425dc
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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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King Leir
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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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10v
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Image Sequence Number:
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010v
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Description:
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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.
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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Subject:
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Great Britain--History
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Subject:
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Chronicles of England
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Subject:
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Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
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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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People Covered:
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Lear, King (Legendary character)
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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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Parker Coke, Daniel, Fellow of All Souls, Oxford.
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Provenance:
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Fann van moter, Will
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Provenance:
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Campinet, William, of Kilworty (?) Yorks
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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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Kyechyner, William
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Provenance:
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Banister, Mergret
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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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130
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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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