COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0906621dc
Reference Number:
English MS 288
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Inside upper cover binding
Parent Work Title:
Legal Commonplace Book
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Littleton, Tenures and other pieces in English, French and Latin
Date Created:
15th century [1479?]
Page:
Inside upper cover
Image Sequence Number:
001b
Description:
Contemporary tacketed limp binding: full bound in alum tawed vellum. The upper cover is severely damaged (possibly by rodents).
Subject:
Bookbinding
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Codex
Support:
Vellum
Time Period Covered:
1200 - 1500 CE
Item Height:
224 mm
Item Width:
154 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance:
Wolff, John (calligraphic inscription Liber Johannis Wolff on folio 23).
Provenance:
Willoughby, John (signature with flourish on final folio).
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
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. 423-24. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
Cost:
Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch for £10.00 in July 1915.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2009-02-12
Multi Page Number:
10
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2009-05
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Inside upper cover binding
