Medieval Collection: Saint Austin

Image Number: JRL0926711dc
Reference Number: English MS 105
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Image Title: Saint Austin
Alternative Image Title: King of Leicester is slain
Parent Work Title: Brut Chronicle (1413 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title: Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created: 16th century [1518?]
Page: 50r
Image Sequence Number: 050r
Description: Saint Austin goes to Wales but they refuse to acknowledge the Church. Rubrication in red ink and a pen-flourished initial introduce the story of how King Adelbright (Ethelbert) and King Elfride fight Brecyual, King of Leicester. The written space is 175 x 135 mm in several secretary hands throughout the manuscript.
Language Code: enm-GB
Subject: Wales--History--To 1063
Subject: Chronicles of England
Subject: Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
Subject: Great Britain--History
Subject: Christianity
Category of Material: Manuscripts
Sub-Category: Codex
Technique Used: Handwriting
Medium: Ink
Support: Vellum
Time Period Covered: 500 - 1000 CE
Places Covered: England
Places Covered: Wales
Item Height: 279 mm
Item Width: 206 mm
Current Repository: The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: Hobbes, Ricardus
Provenance: Pawlyn, Thomas, 'surgion in civitate London'.
Provenance: Wynnard, Hugo
Provenance: Hought, Thomas
Provenance: Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
Provenance: Stevinson, Nicholaus
Rights Holder - Image: The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: The University of Manchester Library
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References: Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.23.
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. 418. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
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 Bull & Auvache for £21.00 on 19 June 1908.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 2009-07-15
Multi Page Number: 525
Image Creation Technique: Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 2009-08
Metadata Language: eng-GB
Collection Code: Medieval