COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
Bookreader Latin MS 420
Reference Number:
Latin MS 420
Parent Work Title:
Leges Angliae
Date Created:
c1150
Description:
Leges Angliae, twelfth century Latin manuscript on vellum and bound in leather. Folios have been ruled for text and the lines numbered, twenty-seven lines to a page. Initials in red and; annotations in margins added at a later date. The Manuscript 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.
Language Code:
lat-GB
Language:
Latin
Subject:
Great Britain--History
Subject:
Law, Medieval--Manuscripts
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Support:
Leather
Item Height:
200 mm
Item Width:
145 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Fleetwood, W., former owner
Provenance:
Spelman, Henry, Sir, former owner
Provenance:
Gurney Family of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, former owner
Provenance:
Macro, Dr Cox, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
References:
Taylor, F., Supplementary Handlist of Western Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library (Manchester, 1937), pp. 7-21.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-09-21
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2011-04-13
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2018-10
Metadata Language:
eng-GB