Detail View: Medieval Collection: King Arthur marries Gunnore

Image Number: 
JRL0906484dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 206
Previous Accession Number: 
R33820
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
King Arthur marries Gunnore
Parent Work Title: 
Brut Chronicle (1326 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created: 
14th-15th century
Page: 
40r
Image Sequence Number: 
040r
Description: 
King Arthur marries Gunnore (Guinevere) and creates the round table of knights. 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: 
Arthurian romances
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
Places Covered: 
England
People Covered: 
Guinevere, Queen (Legendary character)
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: 
Banister, Mergret
Provenance: 
Provenance: 
Campinet, William, of Kilworty (?) Yorks
Provenance: 
Peell, John, of Stokes, Notts
Provenance: 
Fann van moter, Will
Provenance: 
Kyechyner, William
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: 
425
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-04
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB