COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
Brotherton_501_002
Reference Number:
Brotherton Collection MS 501
Image Title:
Inside upper cover binding
Parent Work Title:
Miscellany of Middle English religious verse and prose
Date Created:
15th century [mid]
Page:
Inside upper cover
Image Sequence Number:
001b
Description:
Inside upper cover: paper pastedown on half-calf binding with marbled paper boards. There is a University of Leeds Brotherton Collection bookplate on the pastedown.
Subject:
Bookbinding
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Technique Used:
Printing (process)
Medium:
Ink
Medium:
Pencil
Support:
Paper
Support:
Calfskin
Time Period Covered:
20th Century CE
Item Height:
222 mm
Item Width:
200 mm
Current Repository:
Leeds University Library, The University of Leeds, U.K.
Provenance:
Pell, Thomas
Provenance:
Purchased for the Brotherton Collection from Francis Edwards in 1950.
Provenance:
Sotheby's sale 14 March 1949, lot 309.
Provenance:
Maggs Bros. (catalogue no. 542, item 133; catalogue no. 555, item 204; catalogue no. 580, item 450; catalogue no. 687, item 171).
Provenance:
Sheldrake family
Provenance:
Edwards, Francis, (catalogue no. 700, item 411.catalogue no. 700, item 411).
Provenance:
Powell, F. S., Sir
Rights Holder - Image:
University of Leeds
Rights holder - Work:
University of Leeds
References:
Humphreys, K. W., and J. Lightbown, 'Two Manuscripts of the Pricke of Conscience in the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds', in: Leeds Studies in English, 7-8 (1952), pp. 30-34.
References:
Hanna, R., III, 'Leeds University Library, MS Brotherton 501: A Redescription', in: Manuscripta, 26 (1982), pp. 38-42.
References:
Pickering, O. S., 'A Middle English prose miracle of the Virgin, with hidden verses', Medium Ævum, 57 (1988), pp. 219-239.
References:
Pickering, O. S., 'Brotherton Collection MS 501: A Middle English Anthology Reconsidered', Leeds Studies in English, 21 (1990), pp. 141-165.
Bibliographic Citation:
Ker, N. R., 'Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries', vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 67-70
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2010-02-15
Multi Page Number:
10
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2010-02
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Inside upper cover binding
