La Vie Seint Edmund Le Rei

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 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