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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Sequentiale

Image Number: 
Brotherton_502_254
Reference Number: 
Brotherton Collection MS 502
Image Title: 
Sequentiale
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
Display Creator: 
Mirk, John, active 1403?
Date Created: 
15th century [late]
Page: 
123v
Image Sequence Number: 
123v
Description: 
Sequentiale, with partial interlinear gloss in English. The text begins and ends imperfectly and is written in a late 15th-century mixture of anglicana and secretary. Written space is ca 150 x 95 mm with 17-23 lines per column. Frame-ruled with a hard point.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Language Code: 
lat-GB
Subject: 
Sequences (Liturgy)
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Paper
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: 
Wakelin, M. F., 'An Edition of John Mirk's Festial as it is contained in the Brotherton Collection MS', unpublished University of Leeds M.A. thesis, 1960.
References: 
Pickering, O. S., and S. Powell, 'The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist VI' (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1989), pp. 12-26
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: 
1270
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