Detail View: Medieval Collection: King Arthur overcomes the King of Ireland

Image Number: 
JRL0906483dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 206
Previous Accession Number: 
R33820
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Image Title: 
King Arthur overcomes the King of Ireland
Parent Work Title: 
Brut Chronicle (1326 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created: 
14th-15th century
Page: 
39v
Image Sequence Number: 
039v
Description: 
The story of how King Arthur defeated King Guillomer of Ireland and how the people of Scotland then swore allegiance to Arthur. Thick black rubrication introduces the 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: 
Great Britain--History
Subject: 
Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
Subject: 
Chronicles of England
Subject: 
Ireland--History--To 1172
Subject: 
Arthurian romances
Subject: 
Scotland--History--To 1057
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
Places Covered: 
Ireland
Places Covered: 
Scotland
Places Covered: 
England
People Covered: 
Arthur, King
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: 
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: 
420
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-04
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB