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Egerton MS 2164
- Record Id:
- 032-001983100
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001983100
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x0001b2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165897271.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 2164
- Title:
- Survey of the lands of Colchester Abbey
- Scope & Content:
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Fragment (the first membrane of a parchment roll) of ‘the abstracte or brefe declaracion of all and singuler lordshippis, manners, landes’ belonging to the recently attainted monastery of Colchester, drawn up (c. 1540) by the royal commissioners Richard Pollard and Thomas Moyle after its confiscation in 1539.
On the top left-hand corner is an image of King Henry VIII. In the top right-hand corner is a drawing of the judge riding out of the town after the trial for treason of the last abbot, Thomas Marshall (also known as the Blessed John Beche). His execution, which took place on l December 1539, is represented (on a very small scale) in the distance. The drawing of the judge is a copy of the biblical engraving The Triumph of Mordecai (1515) by the Dutch artist Lucas van Leyden (1494–1533).
The greater part of this manuscript is in the Finch Hatton collection at Northamptonshire Record Office, FH 2945.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-001983100", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 2164: Survey of the lands of Colchester Abbey" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001983100
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001983100
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165897271.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1539
- End Date:
- 1540
- Date Range:
- 1539-1540
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 1180 x 575 mm (item); 850 x 575 mm (fragment).
Foliation: No foliation.
Binding: No binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Bought by the British Museum from Sotheby's on 5 February 1872, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (1761–1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (1756–1829), founder of the collection).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1854–1875, Volume II (London: Museum Trustees, 1877), pp. 992–93.
Henry VIII: Man and Monarch, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), p. 176 [exhibition catalogue].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)