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Detail View: Medieval Collection: Coryn and Gogmagog

Image Number: 
JRL0906419dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 206
Previous Accession Number: 
R33820
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Coryn and Gogmagog
Parent Work Title: 
Brut Chronicle (1326 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created: 
14th-15th century
Page: 
7v
Image Sequence Number: 
007v
Description: 
The history of Brutus of Troy. The story of how Brut and his men fought and slayed all the giants in Albion and of Coryn's great battle with the giant Gogmagog. Thick black rubrication introduces the story of how Brut made London. The written space is c.197 x 118 mm in a good secretary hand which is the same throughout.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Great Britain--History
Subject: 
Chronicles of England
Subject: 
Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Places Covered: 
England
People Covered: 
Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character)
Item Height: 
263 mm
Item Width: 
192 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Banister, Mergret
Provenance: 
Parker Coke, Daniel, Fellow of All Souls, Oxford.
Provenance: 
Campinet, William, of Kilworty (?) Yorks
Provenance: 
Provenance: 
Peell, John, of Stokes, Notts
Provenance: 
Kyechyner, William
Provenance: 
Fann van moter, Will
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
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. 421-22. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
References: 
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.36.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-02-03
Multi Page Number: 
100
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