Detail View: Medieval Collection: King Cadwalyn and King Oswolde
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Image Number:
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JRL0925119dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 103
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Previous Accession Number:
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R15385
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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King Cadwalyn and King Oswolde
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Parent Work Title:
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Brut Chronicle (1347 Continuation)
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Brute or the Chronicles of England
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Date Created:
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14th century [mid]
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Page:
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44r
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Image Sequence Number:
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044r
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Description:
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King Cadwalyn returns from Ireland and quells King Edwynne. Red rubrication and an illuminated initial 'W' introduce the tale of how King Oswolde reigns in Northumberland after Edwynne's death, and how King Cadwalyn and his brother-in-law Peanda drive Oswolde into Scotland and slay him. The written space is c.182 x 112 mm and the script is anglicana formata.
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Transcription:
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and caste adoun casteles an brente his maners and dep(ar)tede al Cadwalyn(es) londe amonges his frendes // And long tyme after come Cadwalayn aȝen fram Jrlonde with a stronge power and in playne bataile quelde Edwynne and alle his frendshipes and namely þo þat wiþhelde his landes þorugh Edwynes ȝefte. How king Oswolde was queld þorugh king Cadwalyn and Peanda and how Oswy þ(t) was sent Oswaldus broþ(er) regnede aft(er) him and quelde [...] Peada. Capo. centesimo p(ri)mo. Whanne þat Edwyn [...] was slayn. Offris his sone vndertooke þe werre aȝens Cadwalyn. his Em. so þat þis Offris. deide du- rynge þe werre. and after þe deth of Offris þo regnede a gentil cristene man þat muche louede god. þat hadde al þe lande of Northumb(er)lande by heritage þat me callede Oswolde: and he was king of al þat lande. but for as muche as he was frende to Edwyne and held a gret part of þe lande of Cadwalyn: þe same Cadwalyn werrede vp- on hym and drof him toward Scotland. and whanne. Cad walyn saugh þat he nolde nouȝt abide. Cadwalyn wol- de no lenger him pursue: but toke some of his folc to Peada his broþ(er) in lawe:- and p(ra)yde Peada to p(ur)sue Oswolde. til þat he were taken and slayn // And Cadwa lyn turnede þo hom aȝen // Whenne Oswolde herde þe ty- dinge þat Cadwalyn turnede home aȝen: he wolde no leng(er)e fle. but abode Peanda and ȝaf him bataile. and Peanda was descomfited and fley and come aȝen to Cadwalyn and saide þat he wolde neu(er)e holde o foote of londe of him: but ȝif it were so þat he wolde avenge him of Oswolde // Cadwalyn lete assemble a gret host for to fighte with Oswold so þat he and Peanda come vn to Northumb(er)land and ȝeuen bataile vnto Oswolde and in þat same bataile was Oswold slayne. and his hede smiten of and after he was entered at þe Abbay of Bar deneye in which place god haþ wrought for him many a
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Language Code:
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enm-GB
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Subject:
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Great Britain--History
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Subject:
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Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
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Subject:
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Chronicles of England
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Illumination (image-making process)
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Vellum
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Time Period Covered:
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500 - 1000 CE
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Places Covered:
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Scotland
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Places Covered:
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England
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Item Height:
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278 mm
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Item Width:
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183 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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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.
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References:
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Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.23.
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Bibliographic Citation:
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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)
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Cost:
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Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London booksellers J. & J. Leighton for £36.00 on 18 June 1908.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-07-22
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Multi Page Number:
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485
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2010-06
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Medieval
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