Detail View: Medieval Collection:
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Image Number:
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Bookreader Latin MS 155
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Reference Number:
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Latin MS 155
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Parent Work Title:
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Leges Angliae
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Translated Parent Work Title:
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The Laws of England
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Date Created:
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12th century
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Description:
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Leges Angliae, twelfth-century vellum manuscript, bound in old brown leather rebaked. 24 lines to a page in an admirable hand, noticeably narrow and upright. There are line-fillings of blue or red waved lines with short curling branches. There are marginal and interlinear annotations throughout the manuscript: some are by a sixteenth-century hand in Latin and Law French; others by a late thirteenth-century hand in Latin.
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Language Code:
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lat-GB
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Language:
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Latin
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Subject:
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Great Britain--History
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Subject:
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Law, Medieval--Manuscripts
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Codex
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Technique Used:
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Gold tooling
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Vellum
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Support:
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Leather
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Creation Site:
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England
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Time Period Covered:
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1000 - 1200 CE
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Item Height:
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258 mm
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Item Width:
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158 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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James, M.R., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (Munich, 1980)
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-09-23
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2011-03-31
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Academic Project Lead:
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David Matthews
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2018-09
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Educational Notes:
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MA Medieval and Early Modern Studies
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Medieval
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