COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
Brotherton_502_002
Reference Number:
Brotherton Collection MS 502
Image Title:
Cover binding
Parent Work Title:
Festial of English Sermons
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Liber Festialis
Alternative Parent Work Title:
John Mirk's Festial
Creator:
Mirk, John, active 1403?
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Adams, Katherine
Creator Role:
Binder
Display Creator:
Mirk, John, active 1403?
Date Created:
15th century [late]
Page:
Inner upper cover
Image Sequence Number:
001b
Description:
Inside upper cover: paper pastedown on pigskin with a University of Leeds Brotherton Collection bookplate and a book label for William Merton. Bound by Katherine Adams for £6. 3s.
Subject:
Bookbinding
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Sub-Category:
Bookplates
Sub-Category:
Bindings
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Technique Used:
Printing (process)
Medium:
Ink
Medium:
Pencil
Support:
Pigskin
Support:
Paper
Time Period Covered:
20th Century CE
Item Height:
208 mm
Item Width:
140 mm
Current Repository:
Leeds University Library, The University of Leeds, U.K.
Provenance:
Late 15th-century (?) ownership inscription on fol. 90r: 'Henry Chicetor (?) ous thes boke'.
Provenance:
Merton, Wilfred (a modern typed note states that on 17 May 1913 the manuscripts was purchased by Wilfred Merton from Bertram Dobell, of Tunbridge Wells, for 16s).
Provenance:
Late 15th-century (?) inscription amongst scribbles on fol. 33v reads: 'Explicit liber quod Iohn Slareffe' (?).
Provenance:
Purchased for the Brotherton Collection from M. Breslauer, 4 June 1958.
Rights Holder - Image:
University of Leeds
Rights holder - Work:
University of Leeds
References:
Wakelin, M. F., 'The Manuscripts of John Mirk's Festial', Leeds Studies in English, n.s., 1 (1967), pp. 93-119.
References:
Pickering, O. S., and S. Powell, 'The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist VI' (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1989), pp. 12-26
References:
Wakelin, M. F., 'An Edition of John Mirk's Festial as it is contained in the Brotherton Collection MS', unpublished University of Leeds M.A. thesis, 1960.
Bibliographic Citation:
Ker, N. R., 'Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries', vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 70-71.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2010-02-17
Multi Page Number:
10
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2010-02
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Medieval
Cover binding
