COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0906598dc
Reference Number:
English MS 206
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Despencer family
Parent Work Title:
Brut Chronicle (1326 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created:
14th-15th century
Page:
97r
Image Sequence Number:
097r
Description:
The le Despenser family are back in favour with King Edward once again. There is writing running vertically down the right hand margin, which appears to be practice letters, then the phrase 'in the name of the father and of the sonne and of the holy gost'. 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--Manuscripts
Subject:
Chronicles of England
Subject:
Great Britain--History
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered:
England
People Covered:
Edmund II, King of England, 981?-1016
People Covered:
Winchester, Hugh Le Despenser, Earl of, 1262-1326
Item Height:
263 mm
Item Width:
192 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Campinet, William, of Kilworty (?) Yorks
Provenance:
Parker Coke, Daniel, Fellow of All Souls, Oxford.
Provenance:
Banister, Mergret
Provenance:
Fann van moter, Will
Provenance:
Kyechyner, William
Provenance:
Peell, John, of Stokes, Notts
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:
995
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-04
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Despencer family
