Medieval Collection: Queen Isabella

Image Number: JRL0905848dc
Reference Number: English MS 207
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Image Title: Queen Isabella
Parent Work Title: Brut Chronicle (1415 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title: Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created: 14th-15th century
Page: 95r
Image Sequence Number: 095r
Description: Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer are very unpopular in their position as regents to the young Edward III. There is some red rubrication and a pen-flourished initial 'N' in red ink. The script is a mixture of anglicana and secretary.
Language Code: enm-GB
Subject: Great Britain--History
Subject: Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
Subject: Chronicles of England
Category of Material: Manuscripts
Sub-Category: Codex
Technique Used: Handwriting
Medium: Ink
Support: Vellum
Creation Site: England
Time Period Covered: 1200 - 1500 CE
Places Covered: England
People Covered: Edward III, King of England, 1312-1377
People Covered: Mortimer, Roger de, Earl of March, 1287?-1330
People Covered: Isabella, Queen, consort of Edward II, King of England, 1292-1358
Item Height: 274 mm
Item Width: 203 mm
Current Repository: The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: Bibliotheca Paleriana
Provenance: <a href="http://archives.li.man.ac.uk/ead/search/?operation=full&recid=gb133engmss206-207">George Dunn Collection</a>
Provenance: Dycconson, Thomas
Provenance: Wollsall, Willyam
Provenance: Heaton, Thomas, of Knowisley
Provenance: Aston, Williyam
Provenance: Quantock, John
Rights Holder - Image: The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: The University of Manchester Library
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References: Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.37.
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), pp. 422-23. 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)
Notes: Two incomplete manuscripts of the 'Brut Chronicle', the first on vellum, the second on paper, put together in or before 1749 to make a nearly complete Brut to 1415 (Ker). The manuscript supplies additional detail to the texts published by Caxton and F.W.D. Brie.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 2008-11-27
Multi Page Number: 975
Image Creation Technique: Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 2009-04
Metadata Language: eng-GB
Collection Code: Medieval