COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0906412dc
Reference Number:
English MS 206
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Prologue
Alternative Image Title:
Daughters of Dioclician
Parent Work Title:
Brut Chronicle (1326 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created:
14th-15th century
Page:
4r
Image Sequence Number:
004r
Description:
The story of the 33 daughters of King Dioclician (Diocletian), Albyne and her sisters, who were wedded to 33 kings. The daughters despise their husbands and murder them in their sleep. Their father Dioclician banishes them from their home land. The sisters set sail and eventually reach a land by boat which Albyne, as the first ashore, names after herself, calling it 'Albion'. 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--Manuscripts
Subject:
Chronicles of England
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Vellum
Places Covered:
England
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:
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
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:
65
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-04
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Prologue
