COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL1001562dc
Reference Number:
Latin MS 420
Image Title:
Leges Aeþelstani Regis
Parent Work Title:
Leges Angliae
Date Created:
c1150
Page:
6v
Image Sequence Number:
006v
Description:
Text from Leges Angliae. Initials in red. Annotations in margin added at a later date. Twenty-seven lines to a page.
Language Code:
lat-GB
Subject:
Great Britain--History
Subject:
Law, Medieval--Manuscripts
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Item Height:
200 mm
Item Width:
145 mm
Current Repository:
John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester, U.K.
Provenance:
Fleetwood, W., former owner
Provenance:
Spelman, Henry, Sir, former owner
Provenance:
Macro, Dr Cox, former owner
Provenance:
Gurney Family of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
References:
Taylor, F., Supplementary Handlist of Western Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library (Manchester, 1937), pp. 7-21.
Notes:
The MS. has been twice numbered previously: firstly , 21-61, by a sixteenth-century hand, which also added a brief contents-list on a fly-leaf, showing that the missing ff. 1-20 contained the laws of Canute and Alfred; secondly, 46-87, by a seventeenth-century hand.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-09-21
Multi Page Number:
130
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2011-04
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Leges Aeþelstani Regis
