Detail View: Medieval Collection: Mandeville's Travels

Image Number: 
Chethams_A.4.107_021
Reference Number: 
Chetham's MS Mun.A.4.107
Previous Accession Number: 
6711
Image Title: 
Mandeville's Travels
Parent Work Title: 
Mandeville's Travels
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
The book of John Mandeville, Knight
Creator: 
Mandeville, John, Sir
Creator Role: 
Author
Display Creator: 
Mandeville, John, Sir
Date Created: 
15th century [early]
Page: 
8r
Image Sequence Number: 
008r
Description: 
English translation of Mandeville's travels. Written in two columns, 30 lines. Four line and three line initials, in red. Written by one hand in anglicana formata.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Geography, Medieval
Subject: 
Voyages and travels
Subject: 
Travel, Medieval
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Creation Site: 
England
Item Height: 
193 mm
Item Width: 
136 mm
Current Repository: 
Chetham's Library, Manchester, UK.
Provenance: 
Wighton, Edmund, approximately 1484
Provenance: 
Legh, Gerard, fl. late 16th century
Rights Holder - Image: 
Chetham's Library, Manchester, UK
Rights holder - Work: 
Chetham's Library, Manchester, UK
References: 
Halliwell, J.O., 'An Account of the European Manuscripts in the Chetham Library, Manchester' (Manchester 1842), 10.
References: 
'The Index of Middle English prose Handlist II: A Handlist of Manuscripts containing Middle English Prose in the John Rylands University Library Manchester and Chetham's Library, Manchester', ed. G.A. Lester (Cambridge, 1985), 83.
Bibliographic Citation: 
'The Defective Version of Mandeville's Travels', ed. M.C. Seymour, (Early English Text Society, 319, 2002), subgroup 4, p.193 (MS no.23)
Bibliographic Citation: 
Seymour, M.C., 'The English Manuscripts of Mandeville's Travels', Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions, 4 (1966), 169-210.
Bibliographic Citation: 
Ker, N.R., 'Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. III Lampeter-Oxford' (Oxford, 1983), 347.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-12-01
Multi Page Number: 
105
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2010-01
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval