La Vie Seint Edmund Le Rei

Item author: Denis Piramus
Item date: late 13th or early 14th century
(this is an approximate date)
Grant Value: 400
Item cost: Not recorded
Item date acquired: 1975
Item institution: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire

An account in Anglo-Norman verse of the life and miracles of St Edmund, King of the East Angles; the original poem was written in the 12th century, this is one of only two copies known. The other, a Cottonian MS has less text, by some 900 lines than this version which also has coloured drawings of incidents in the poem on 41 folios

Item Provenance
Owned by James Cobbes d.1685