MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0906461dc
Reference Number:
English MS 206
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Engist's land
Alternative Image Title:
Vortiger settles in Wales
Parent Work Title:
Brut Chronicle (1326 Continuation)
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Brute or the Chronicles of England
Date Created:
14th-15th century
Page:
28v
Image Sequence Number:
028v
Description:
The story of how Engist renamed Britain as Engist's land (England), and the story of Vortigern settling in Wales. Vortigern tries to build a castle, but it constantly falls before completion. He is told that the castle will only stand if the foundations are sprinkled with the blood of a child born without a father. There is a black pentangle drawn in the left margin. Thick black rubrication introduces each tale. 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
Subject:
Wales--History--To 1063
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:
Wales
Places Covered:
England
People Covered:
Vortigern, active 450
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:
Provenance:
Peell, John, of Stokes, Notts
Provenance:
Campinet, William, of Kilworty (?) Yorks
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:
310
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-04
Metadata Language:
eng-GB

Engist's land

Engist's land