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Record Id:

032-001963568

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001963568

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Add MS 63009

Title:

Roger of St Albans, Progenie regum Angliae, a genealogical roll chronicle of the Kings of England

Scope & Content:

Contents:

Progenies regum Angliae or the St Albans chronicle, a genealogical diagram of the descent of the Kings of England to Edward IV (r. 1461-1483) with a commentary to Henry VI, attributed to Roger Alban O'Carm or Roger of St Albans (d. after 1461).

In the central column, each ruler is represented by a gold crown with a large double roundel containing his name. Other lines of descent and claimants to the throne are in smaller roundels in the central space, with commentary on either side. In the margins are roundels with the line of descent of Popes (left) and Emperors (right). The first membrane, with the descent from Noah is lacking:

Membranes 1-2: The genealogy begins at King Heli and his son Lud, followed by the first Roman ruler, Cassibellanus; the commentary begins 'Iste Hely regnavit xl annis'.

Membrane 3: The central column is replaced by seven parallel lines of descent for the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy, with seven sets of crowns

Membranes 4-6: A single line of descent is resumed at Egbert (r. 802-839). From the time of Henry I (r. 1100-1135 there are several branches in different colours to show the Plantaganet, York and Lancastrian lines of descent.

The dorse of the roll is blank (dorse abbreviated as d).

Roger of St Albans was a Carmelite friar based in London in the 1450s and named as the scribe of Harley MS 3138 (dated 1424), Harley MS 211, and Stowe MS 8.

Other copies of the St Albans chronicle are in Add MS 24342, Harley Roll T 12 and Royal MS 14 B VIII.

Decoration:

A crest (a black bull with gold horns, crown and nose ring) beside the roundel of King Henry III (membrane 7) and above a shield bearing the arms of Sir Thomas Wriothesley in colours and gold (membrane 9). Crowns in red, green, brown or blue with gold. Lines of descent are represented as branches in green with leaves in brown or in blue, red, light brown or yellow. Roundels in red and blue or red and brown. Initials in blue and names in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001963568

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Hierarchy:

032-001963568

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 roll

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1448

End Date:

1461

Date Range:

c 1453-1461

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 7500 x 330 mm.

Arrangment: 9 parchment membranes joined together end-to-end; a modern textile wrapper added with a perspex support.

Script: Gothic.

Custodial History:

Origin: England, S.

Provenance:

Sir Thomas Wriothesley (b.c.1460, d.1534), Garter King of Arms, owned by him in the 16th century: his emblem and coat of arms added beside the roundel of King Henry III (membrane 7) and at the end (membrane 9).

A proverb or motto incribed on the dorse in a late-15th or 16th-century hand, 'Omnia si perdas famam servare memento/Qua semel amissa postea nullus eris' (see H. Walther, Proverbia sententiaeque Latinitatis nedii ac recentioris aevi (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982-1986), no. 13278) (membrane 4d).

John Edmund Severne, MP (b. 1826, d. 1899), owned by him in the 19th century: a note on the dorse states that the roll was sent by him 'to Edward B. Tyler Esq. University Museums Oxford and most kindly deciphered by him and Mr F. Madan'; perhaps in his sale, Sothebys, 11 January and 13 May 1886 (membrane 9d).

Alan G. Thomas, writer and antiquarian bookseller of Bournemouth (b. 1911, d. 1992), in his catalogue, 'Fine Books' no 46, item 3; bought by the British Library, 20 March, 1984.

Publications:

The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, New Series, 1981-1985 (London: British Library, 1994), p. 209.

Richard Sharpe, A Handlist of Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1997), p. 580, n. 1544 [Roger Alban OCarm].

Jaclyn Rajsic, 'The English Prose Brut Chronicle on a Roll: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 546 and its History', in The Prose Brut and Other Late Medieval Chronicles: Books have their Histories: Essays in Honour of Lister M. Matheson, ed. by Jaclyn Rajsic, Erik Kooper and Dominique Hoche (Woodbridge, Suffolk : York Medieval Press, 2016), pp. 105-24 (pp. 116, n. 46, 123, n. 73).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Severne, John Edmund, MP, 1826-1899
Thomas, Alan Gradon, book and manuscript seller, 1911-1992
Wriothesley, Thomas, Garter King of Arms, c. 1460-1534

Related Material:

From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1994):

'Roll chronicle and genealogy of the kings of England beginning from Hely and his son Lud to Edward IV; circa 1453-1461. Latin. The royal descents are accompanied by biographical notices up to Henry VI, 1453; on the left side a column of Popes and the right side a column of Emperors. Similar to Royal 14.B.VIII, Lansdowne Roll 2, etc. The first membrane is missing. Lines of desent, roundels and crowns illuminated in gold and colours. At the foot are the arms and crest of Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms 1505-1534, and his crest appears opposite the cartouche for Henry III (membr. 8). Belonged in the 19th century to J. E. Severne, M.P. Purchased from Alan G. Thomas, Cat. 46, item 3, 20 March 1984. Vellum roll. 767 x 320mm.'