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Add MS 29502
- Record Id:
- 032-002021022
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002021022
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000034.0x00012a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100172734424.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 29502
- Title:
- Genealogical roll chronicle of English kings to Edward III with an armorial
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
A genealogical chronicle from the reign of Egbert to Edward III and of the Lancastrians to Henry V, with commentary in English and an added armorial.
Face:
Membrane 1: A diagram of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy surrounded by four armorial shields.
Membranes 1-2: A genealogical diagram from Egbert ('Egobertus') to Edward III on the right, with a commentary on the left. Beginning at the reign of Edward I there is a parallel diagram on the right of the Lancastrians from Edmund 'Crouchback), 1st Earl (b. 1245, d. 1296) to John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1340, d. 1399); the accompanying commentary ends with the descendants of Henry IV.
Membrane 2: The 'Third Calais Roll of Arms', containing the arms of those who died at the siege of Calais in 1347, beginning, 'Theyse be the names of the lordes and captens that weyr sleyn and dront on the sey at the sege of Callas'.
Membranes 3-5: A text on the Earls of Leicester from Robert 'Blaunchemeynes', 3rd Earl (d. 1190) to Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl (b. 1208, d. 1265) in Latin; accounts of the Battles of Evesham (1265) and Lewes (1264).
Dorse (abbreviated as d):
An armorial, the 'London Roll of Arms' added in c. 1470, with labels written above.
Decoration:
Shields with coats of arms in colours. Diagram with roundels in brown and green, containing crowns, hats and swords in brown, red and green.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002021022
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002021022
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100172734424.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
English, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1470
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 2470/90 mm x 180/200 mm.
Arrangement: 5 unfoliated parchment leaves or membranes, stitched together end-to-end. A modern parchment folio attached at the upper edge to form a wrapper.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, S. (?London).
Provenance:
Perhaps made for a member of the 'Wellysburne Monfort' family, whose descent from Simon de Montfort the younger is shown in the genealogy (membrane 2). A 'Ser Groffen Wellysburne' is named in the introduction to the armorial below, and his coat of arms is in the first row on the right, with the rubric, 'Wellysburne capton of ...' (membrane 2) (see Laborderie, Histoire (2013), p. 213).
The manuscript was in London in c. 1470, when the London roll of arms was added on the dorse.
Richard Attenborough, bought from him by the British Museum, 12 July 1873.
- Publications:
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The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts,1861-1875 (London: British Museum, 1877), p. 646.
Anthony Richard Wagner, The Records and Collections of the College of Arms (London: Burkes Peerage, 1952), p. 105.
W. H. Monroe, 'Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century Illustrated Genealogical Manuscripts in Roll and Codex: Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium, Universal Histories and Chronicles of the Kings of England' (unpublished PhD thesis: University of London, 1989).
Edward Donald Kennedy, Chronicles and other historical writing, A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500, 8 vols (New Haven, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1989), VIII, p. 2675.
Diana B. Tyson, 'The Manuscript Tradition of Old French Prose Brut Rolls', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 55 (2001), 107-18 (pp. 107, 115, 118).
Olivier de Laborderie, 'Ligne de reis: Culture historique, représentation du pouvoir royal et construction de la mémoire nationale en Angleterre a travers les généalogies royales en rouleau du milieu du XIIIe siècle au début du XVe siècle' (unpublished PhD thesis: Paris EHESS, 2002), pp. 1379-80, 1508, passim).
Olivier de Laborderie, Histoire, mémoire et pouvoir: les généalogies en rouleau des rois d'Angleterre: 1250-1422 (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013), no. BL4, p. 502, passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)