Detail View: Medieval Collection: King Gracian
|
Image Number:
|
JRL0906452dc
|
|
Reference Number:
|
English MS 206
|
|
Previous Accession Number:
|
R33820
|
|
Link to Catalogue:
|
|
|
Image Title:
|
King Gracian
|
|
Parent Work Title:
|
Brut Chronicle (1326 Continuation)
|
|
Alternative Parent Work Title:
|
Brute or the Chronicles of England
|
|
Date Created:
|
14th-15th century
|
|
Page:
|
24r
|
|
Image Sequence Number:
|
024r
|
|
Description:
|
The story of how Gracian was made King after Maximian, but was so wicked that he was killed by the Britons. After the death of Gracian King Gowan invades again but this time he is slain by Constantine. The written space is c.197 x 118 mm in a good secretary hand which is the same throughout.
|
|
Language Code:
|
enm-GB
|
|
Subject:
|
Chronicles of England
|
|
Subject:
|
Great Britain--History
|
|
Subject:
|
Chronicles of England--Manuscripts
|
|
Category of Material:
|
Manuscripts
|
|
Sub-Category:
|
Codex
|
|
Technique Used:
|
Handwriting
|
|
Medium:
|
Ink
|
|
Support:
|
Vellum
|
|
Time Period Covered:
|
1 BCE - 500 CE
|
|
Places Covered:
|
England
|
|
People Covered:
|
Gratian, Emperor of Rome, 359-383
|
|
Item Height:
|
263 mm
|
|
Item Width:
|
192 mm
|
|
Current Repository:
|
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
|
|
Provenance:
|
Parker Coke, Daniel, Fellow of All Souls, Oxford.
|
|
Provenance:
|
Banister, Mergret
|
|
Provenance:
|
|
|
Provenance:
|
Campinet, William, of Kilworty (?) Yorks
|
|
Provenance:
|
Kyechyner, William
|
|
Provenance:
|
Peell, John, of Stokes, Notts
|
|
Provenance:
|
Fann van moter, Will
|
|
Rights Holder - Image:
|
The University of Manchester Library
|
|
Rights holder - Work:
|
The University of Manchester Library
|
|
Access Rights:
|
|
|
References:
|
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.36.
|
|
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.
|
|
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
|
2009-02-03
|
|
Multi Page Number:
|
265
|
|
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
|