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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Natura brevium

Image Number: 
JRL0906892dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 288
Previous Accession Number: 
R39329
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Natura brevium
Parent Work Title: 
Legal Commonplace Book
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Littleton, Tenures and other pieces in English, French and Latin
Date Created: 
15th century [1479?]
Page: 
134r
Image Sequence Number: 
134r
Description: 
Natura brevium, in French. The written space is c. 175 x 100 mm and the script a mixture of secretary and anglicana.
Language Code: 
frm
Subject: 
Law, Medieval
Subject: 
Law, Medieval--Manuscripts
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Paper
Time Period Covered: 
1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered: 
England
Item Height: 
224 mm
Item Width: 
154 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Willoughby, John (signature with flourish on final folio).
Provenance: 
Wolff, John (calligraphic inscription Liber Johannis Wolff on folio 23).
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
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. 423-24. 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.42.
Cost: 
Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch for £10.00 in July 1915.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-02-11
Multi Page Number: 
1365
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-05
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval