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Add MS 28330
- Record Id:
- 032-002019684
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002019684
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000037.0x00026d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 28330
- Title:
- Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript includes two works by Lucas De Heere written and illustrated by the author:
ff. 1r-27v: Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland, a short description of England, Scotland and Ireland; preceded by f. 1r: a title page; ff. 2v-3r: a printed map of the British Isles, by the cartographer Abraham Ortelius (b. 1527, d. 1598) and, f. 5r: the author's preface 'L. D. tot den lezen', incipit: 'Onder ander bysondere oorsaecken die mij verwect hebben'; f. 5v: a list of authorities used; incipit (text): 'Het Eiyland van Britanien heeft alder eerst Albis ghenaemt.'
ff. 35r-55r: Coerte beschryvinghe van D'enghelandsche gheschiedenissen, incipit: 'Men weet niet wel van waer d'eerste jnwoonders van Britanien.'
Decoration:
11 illustrations in ink and watercolour of historical and contemporary dress including a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533, d. 1603) (f. 4r), with her royal arms (f. 1r).
The subjects of the drawings are:
f. 1r: The royal arms of England, Scotland and Ireland at the time of Elizabeth I.
f. 4r: Portrait of Elizabeth I of England.
f. 8v: Two Ancient Britons.
f. 28r: Three men: an aristocrat, a knight and a baron in dress of the 15th century.
f. 29r: Two barons in dress of the 16th century.
f. 30r: Three men in robes of the Elizabethan era: a Lord Mayor, an Alderman and a liveryman.
f. 31r: Three man in robes of the Elizabethan era: a member of the Parliament, a knight of the Order of the Garter and a guardsman.
f. 32r: Three Englishwomen in dress of the 15th century: a rich burgher’s wife, a devout burgher’s wife, a noblewoman.
f. 33r: Four Englishwomen in dress of the Elizabethan era: a wife of a citizen of London, a wife of a wealthy citizen of London, a daughter of the London's citizen wife, and a country-woman.
f. 34r: Four inhabitants of Ireland in dress of the 16th century: a noblewoman, a burgher's wife, and two wild Irishmen.
f. 36r: Stonehenge.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002019684
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002019684
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Paper codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_28330 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Dutch
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1573
- End Date:
- 1575
- Date Range:
- 1573-1575
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 315 x 205 mm.
Foliation: ff. 55 (+ 4 unfoliated original paper flyleaves: 2 at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Script: Italic.
Binding: Post 1600. Parchment binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (London).
Provenance:
Lucas de Heere (b. 1534, d. 1584), painter and poet, written by him during his exile in England (perhaps from 1566, documented between 1571 and 1576): his initials 'L. D.' (ff. 5r, 34r).
Purchased by the British Museum on 9 July 1870 from L. Daniell: inscription: 'Purchased of L Daniell 9 July 1870' (f. [i]r).
- Source of Acquisition:
- L. Daniell.
- Administrative Context:
- England.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum 1861-1875 (London: British Museum, 1877), 2 vol, p. 471.
T. M. Chotzen and A. A. E. Draak, Beschrijving der Britsche Eilanden, door Lucas de Heere (Corte beschryvinghe van England, Scotland, ende Irland.) with a summary in English [With plates] (Antwerpen, 1937).
G. Gerard, 'De Heere (Lucas). Beschrijving der Britshe eilanden', Revue Belge de Philologie et d' Histoire, 19 (1940), pp. 225-26.
The Growth of London. AD 43-1964. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 17July- 30 August 1964 (London: 20th International Geographical Congress, 1964), pp. 40, 193. n. D.34.
R. Priebsch, Deutsche Handschriften in England, 2 vols (in 1 vol.) (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1979), II: Das British Museum mit einem Anhang über die Guildhall-Bibliothek (first publ. as 2 vols, Erlangen, 1896-1901), pp. 244-46.
A. Ribeiro and V. Cumming, The Visual History of Costume (London: Batsford, 1989), p. 87, n. 46.
Susan Doran, The Tudor Chronicles 1485-1603, (London: Quercus, 2008), pp. 302-03.
L. B. Smith, The Horizon Book of the Elizabethan World (New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1967).
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion, (London: British Library, 2007) p. 193, figs. 119-20.
Kim Sloan and Joyce E. Chaplin, A New World: England's First View of America (London: British Museum 2007), p. 153, fig. 95.
Jonathan Bate and Dora Thornton, Shakespeare: Staging the World (London: British Museum, 2012), p. 116, fig. 27. [exhibition catalogue].
S. Bracken, ‘Heere, Lucas de (1534–1584)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7424, accessed 22 Aug 2012].
- Exhibitions:
- Picturing places, (online), 27 April 2017-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)