Detail View: Rylands Collection: Page of English script
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Image Number:
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JRL0901052dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 17
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Image Title:
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Page of English script
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Parent Work Title:
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Descriptions of the Canary Islands and of the Azores
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Creator:
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Skory, Edmund
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Date Created:
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c1610
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Page/Sheet:
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17v
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Image Sequence Number:
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017v
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Description:
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Page of manuscript: A description of all the Islands of the Canaries. Besides the history of their first inhabitants called the guanches, their religion, laws, wars and other memorable observations.
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Language Code:
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eng-GB
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Subject:
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Spain--Description and travel
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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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Support:
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Paper
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Places Covered:
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Spain: Canary Islands
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Item Height:
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175 mm
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Item Width:
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130 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Lindsay family Earls of Crawford and Balcarres, former owner
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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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Tyson, Moses. Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, 1928
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Notes:
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Former owner: William Browning
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2008-08-13
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Multi Page Number:
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170
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Rylands
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