Medieval Collection: Mandeville's Travels

Image Number: Chethams_A.4.107_055
Reference Number: Chetham's MS Mun.A.4.107
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: 25r
Image Sequence Number: 025r
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: Travel, Medieval
Subject: Voyages and travels
Subject: Geography, 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, fl. 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: '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.
References: Halliwell, J.O., 'An Account of the European Manuscripts in the Chetham Library, Manchester' (Manchester 1842), 10.
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: 275
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