COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0906453dc
Reference Number:
English MS 206
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
King Constantine
Parent Work Title:
Brut Chronicle (1326 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created:
14th-15th century
Page:
24v
Image Sequence Number:
024v
Description:
The story of how Constantine (Constantine II of Britain, d. 411) was made King and of how Britain became Christian. Thick black rubrication introduces each tale. 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
Subject:
Great Britain--History
Subject:
Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1 BCE - 500 CE
Places Covered:
England
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:
Banister, Mergret
Provenance:
Campinet, William, of Kilworty (?) Yorks
Provenance:
Kyechyner, William
Provenance:
Peell, John, of Stokes, Notts
Provenance:
Fann van moter, Will
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
References:
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.36.
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.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-02-03
Multi Page Number:
270
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 Constantine
