COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0925103dc
Reference Number:
English MS 103
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Spanish Giant
Parent Work Title:
Brut Chronicle (1347 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created:
14th century [mid]
Page:
36r
Image Sequence Number:
036r
Description:
Knights Key (Kay) and Bidewer (Bedwer) hear the story of how the Spanish Giant ravished Eleyne and another damsel and killed Eleyne. There are copying errors which have been corrected by the scribe. The written space is c.182 x 112 mm and the script is anglicana formata.
Transcription:
and aspie where þe Geaunt mighte ben founde and þey comen to þe Ryuage þ(er)e þat men shulde gon to þe mount þat was al enclosed aboute wiþ water and ȝit is and eu(er)more shal be and þey sawe a brennyng fire vppon þe hull. and þere was also anoþ(er) hull neigh þat þ(er) was oppon annoþ(er) fire brenn/yng //Key. and Bidewer come(~) to þe nexte hulle: and founden a widewe openheded sitti(~)g bisides a tumbe sore wepyng and grete sorwe made and ofte she saide. Eleyne. Eleyne. and Key. and Bydewere axede what hire was and wherfore she made so muche sorwe and who lay in þat tumbe // O quod she what sorwe and what mys aventure faire lordes seke ȝe her for ȝif þe Geaunt may ȝow here fynde: ȝe worþe dede a- non // Beþ stille good wif quod þey þ(er)offe dismaye þe nouȝt but telle vs þe sothe why þow makest so muche sorwe and wepynge // Sires quod she for a damisell þat .J. nourisshede wiþ my brest þat me called Eleyne þat was nece to Hoel king of Britaigne and here lith þe body in (to) þis tumbe þat to me was bitaken to norisshe so þ(er)e come a deuel a Geaunt and rauisshede hire and me also and lad vs boþe away. And he wolde haue for- layn þat mayde þat was so ȝonge and tendre of age. but she mighte it nouȝt suffren so grete and so huge þe geauntȝ. (is) and ȝif he now come as he is woned to done. certes he wele ȝow quelle boþe too. and þ(er)fore faste wende ȝe hennes: and wherfore saide þey go ȝe nought hennes Certes sire q(uo)d she whanne þ(t)a Eleyne was ded þe Ge- aunt made me to abide to done and haunt his wille and me moste nedes it soffren: and god it wot y do it nouȝt wiþ my goode wille. for leuere me were to ben dede þan wiþ him to dele so muche peyne .J. haue whan he me forlith // Whan Key and Bedewere had herd al þat þis woman had tolde þey turnede aȝene and co- men til king Arthur and tolde him al þat þey had
Language Code:
enm-GB
Subject:
Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
Subject:
Great Britain--History
Subject:
Arthurian romances
Subject:
Chronicles of England
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1 BCE - 500 CE
Places Covered:
England
Item Height:
278 mm
Item Width:
183 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
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), p. 417. 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.23.
Bibliographic Citation:
Brie, Friedrich W. D., 'The Brut, or, the Chronicles of England / edited from Ms. Rawl. B 171, Bodleian Library &c.', (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner for the Early English Text Society, 1906-1908)
Cost:
Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London booksellers J. & J. Leighton for £36.00 on 18 June 1908.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-07-22
Multi Page Number:
405
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2010-06
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Medieval
Spanish Giant
