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Add MS 71009
- Record Id:
- 032-001964904
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001964904
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000055.0x00022a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163572623.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 71009
- Title:
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Descriptions of Tudor court ceremonies
- Scope & Content:
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Collection of papers concerning the organisation of the royal household, including detailed descriptions of sacred and secular court ceremonies, during the reigns of King Edward IV, King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and Queen Mary I.
Gathered by John Norris (1522/23-91), courtier, who served as a gentleman usher at court from c. 1536, and was made Black Rod in 1554. Later owned by John Anstis (1669-1744), herald and antiquary.
Contents:
ff. ii-iii: Details of the manuscript’s sale by Quaritch, 1939.
ff. 1r-2v: Contents list in the hand of John Anstis (1669-1744), herald and antiquary.
ff. 6v-7r: Description of the duties of a gentleman usher at court, as well as other servants. Beginning ‘When I wasse a gentleman ussher dely waiter’. See also Add MS 21116, ff. 3r-4v; Add MS 34319, ff. 3v-9r; Add MS 48020, ff. 121v-124v.
ff. 7v-8r: Paper titled ‘The Order of a Kynges halle’.
ff. 10r-17v: Description beginning ‘Here begynneth thorder of a kinges chambre’.
ff. 17v-18v: Notes titled ‘The recordinge of the chamber’.
ff. 19r-20v: ‘How the kinge and the Quenes lodginges shalbe made at every tyme of the kinge and the Quenes removinge’.
f. 21r: Description of an order of service. Titled ‘The ordre of Service and Ceremonies done to the Lord Cardinall Wolsie att Powles apon all hallon day singing high masse before king henry the viii. In the [tenth] year of his reign apon the Conclusion of peace betwene the frenche king and him after the frenche king was taken’.
f. 21r-21v: ‘At Schroftide or ani other time when the king doth bankkate’.
f. 22r: Description titled ‘The Ordre and maner of comyng of the King to the hollighoste Masse att Westminster before a Parlament’.
ff. 22v-26r: Descriptions of religious ceremonies in the Royal Chapel.
ff. 27r-28v: Description titled ‘The Ceremonies at the Christening of a prince or princesse’. See also Add MS 4712, ff. 15v-16v; Add MS 38174, ff. 11r-12v; Harley MS 4107, ff. 109r-110v.
f. 29r-29v: ‘The maner and ordre of the astate of a Kynges deputy in any of his dominions’.
f. 30r: ‘The Ordre of the Greate Chambre and Chambre of Presence’.
ff. 31r-32v: ‘The mariage of Quene Mary and Kyng Philip prynce of Spayne apon St James day in the Cathedrall churche of Wynchestre’. See Add MS 4712, ff. 79r-80v; Add MS 6297, ff. 17r-18v.
f. 33r-33v: ‘How Kyng Henry the VIII receaved Charles the V Emperor into Cantorbury on Wytsonday eve’.
f. 34r: Description of Anne of Cleves’ reception in Calais.
ff. 37r-44v: ‘A Declaration of the intierment of the verteows Pryncesse Quene Jane mother of the noble Prince Edward the Sixte’. See also Add MS 45716, which is printed in Murray and Bosanquet, ‘Excerpts from the manuscript of William Dunchie’ (1914).
ff. 45r-50v: ‘The trew order concerning the administration of all manner of Ceremones abought the solempe interente of our moste prudente and pusante prince henry the viiith kinge of Englande’.
ff. 51r-52v: ‘The order concerning the creating of […] noble men the Thursdaye before the coronacion of the moste victorious prince king Edwarde the Sixte at the Tower of London the xij day of Februarie’.
ff. 52r-56r: ‘The nexte day being sondaye the xx of February the order then of the coronation of the said soveraig[n]e lorde’. See also Stowe MS 1047, ff. 163r-164v; Stowe MS 322, ff. 43r-49v; Egerton MS 3026.
ff. 56v-57v: ‘Memorandum when the king went overse to mette with the frenche king at ginies’.
ff. 57v-70r: Description of the coronation of Anne Boleyn as Queen.
f. 60r-60v: Description of ‘The order of the quenes prive Chamber’.
ff. 60v-61r: ‘King Edwarde the iiij the othes for all his servantes’. See also Harley MS 4107.
ff. 61v-65v: ‘For the bankate at grynwige the vij daye of Juli’. See also Add MS 21110, ff. 40r-43v.
ff. 66r-68v: Table plans, titled ‘Bankate at grenwige to the greate master of franse after the frenche king wasse delivered the xiiij of november the xiiij year of king harre […] The bankat at grenwyche the viij day of Juli ix yere of King Henri the viii […] The bankat that king harry the viii wasse wonte to make every Schorftide to his noble men one daie another daye to the bisshopes’.
f. 68v: ‘The stage at Wynchester in the churche at the mariage of king philipe and quene mare [Mary]’.
ff. 73r-108v: Sixteenth century copy of accounts of the Royal Collectors in Norfolk (1346). Latin.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-001964904
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001964904
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163572623.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1530
- End Date:
- 1570
- Date Range:
- 1530-1570
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper. Sections 1 (ff. 1r-9v) and 2 (ff. 10r-71v) have a watermark matching Briquet, no. 12825, pot with flower (c. 1545). Section 3 (ff. 73r-114v) has a watermark matching Briquet, no. 12752, pot with flower (c. 1553-1554).
Dimensions: 300 x 210 mm.
Foliation: ff. iii + 114.
Binding: Post-1600. Vellum. Section 3 was bound in with sections 1 and 2 in the 17th century by John Anstis (1669-1744), herald and antiquary.
Script: Secretary. Four hands: Scribe A (ff. 1r-9v); Scribe B (ff. 10r-20v); Scribe C (ff. 22r-44v, upper half of f. 21r); Scribe D (ff. 45r-68v, lower half of f. 21r).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Norris (1522/23-91), courtier: former owner.
John Anstis (1669-1744), herald and antiquary: former owner, his inscription on inside front cover.
Sold in 1939 by Quaritch: typed extract of the catalogue on ff. ii-iii.
Bertram Rota, bookseller: former owner.
Purchased by the British Library, 1992.
- Publications:
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Briquet, Charles Moise, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier, ed. Allan Stevenson, 4 vols. (Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968).
Kisby, F., ‘Religious Ceremonial at the Tudor Court: Extracts from Royal Household Regulations in British Library, Additional Manuscript 71009’, in The Camden Miscellany, 5th series, 22 (2003), pp. 1-33.
Kisby, F., ‘“When the King Goeth a Procession”: Chapel Ceremonies and Services, the Ritual Year, and Religious Reforms at the Early Tudor Court, 1485-1547’, Journal of British Studies, 40, no 1 (2001), 44-75.
Murray, A.G.W., and Bosanquet, Eustace F., ‘Excerpts from the manuscript of William Dunchie’, The Genealogist, new series, 30 (1914), 153-58.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)