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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Saint Edward the Martyr

Image Number: 
JRL0926730dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 105
Previous Accession Number: 
Phillipps 9486
Previous Accession Number: 
R15391
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Saint Edward the Martyr
Parent Work Title: 
Brut Chronicle (1413 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created: 
16th century [1518?]
Page: 
59v
Image Sequence Number: 
059v
Description: 
The story of King Edward the Martyr. Red rubrication and a pen-flourished initial introduce the story of King Eldred (Ethelred the Unready) and King Swyne (Swein) of Denmark. The written space is 175 x 135 mm in several secretary hands throughout the manuscript.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
Subject: 
Chronicles of England
Subject: 
Great Britain--History
Subject: 
Hagiography
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Support: 
Paper
Time Period Covered: 
1000 - 1200 CE
Time Period Covered: 
500 - 1000 CE
Places Covered: 
England
People Covered: 
Edward, King of England, 962?-978
People Covered: 
Ethelred II, King of England, 968?-1016
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
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
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: 
620
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