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Add MS 30079
- Record Id:
- 032-002021669
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002021669
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000034.0x000240
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161518799.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 30079
- Title:
- Genealogical roll chronicle of the kings of England to Henry III
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
A genealogical chronicle with a commentary in Latin. This is one of the earliest surviving genealogical rolls of its kind, probably produced between 1265 and the death of Henry III in 1272, with a continuation added before 1307. The Latin commentary is related to John of Wallingford's chronicle, Cotton Julius MS D VII, ff. 49v-110r; the commentaries in the Anglo-Norman rolls of the 14th century were probably based on this version of the text (see Laborderie, 'Ligne de reis' (2013), p. 148).
Membrane 1 is blank.
Membrane 2: A diagram of the Heptarchy followed by a commentary, beginning, 'Per hanc figuram superius circulatam'; a poem from Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, in Latin, also found in Harley Roll C 10, Additional MS 21368, and Lansdowne Roll 3.
Membranes 3-9: A genealogical diagram of the kings of England from Egbert (r. 802-839), written 'Athelbrict' to Henry III (r. 1216-1272), including his descendants; 5 lines added at the end of the commentary with a notice of Henry III's death and the coronation of Edward I, but the roundel for Henry III's successor is blank (membrane 9).
The dorse of the roll is blank (dorse abbreviated as d).
Decoration:
A framed Heptarchy diagram with roundels in colours and foliate decoration in blue, brown and white on a gold ground, including a hybrid creature and a rubric in gold (membrane 2). Medallions and lines in the genealogical diagram in brown, green or red. An initial in red with pen-flourishing in blue and an initial in blue with pen-flourishing in red (membrane 2). Paraphs in red or blue and highlighting in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002021669", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 30079: Genealogical roll chronicle of the kings of England to Henry III" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002021669
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002021669
- 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_100161518799.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1265
- End Date:
- 1272
- Date Range:
- 1265-1272
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions of roll: 4780mm x 220mm.
Arrangement: 9 unfoliated parchment membranes joined together end-to-end, with an added modern parchment membrane forming a wrapper.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (?Norwich).
Provenance:
Copied after 1265, as the Battle of Evesham is included. The death of Henry III on 16th November, 1272, and his burial at Westminster is not recorded in the main commentary, so it was probably completed before this date (see Laborderie, 'The First Manuals' p. 4, n. 14), but a short continuation was added in the reign of Edward I (r. 1272-1307).
Raoul de Fretenham, cellarer of the Benedictine cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity, Norwich in 1273-1274, given by him to the priory: a pressmark and inscription recording the donation, 'C. xii. Radulfi de fretinham mo[nachi]' in a hand of the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century.
A. Godson, bought from him by the British Museum, 10 July, 1876.
- Publications:
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The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 32.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 138.
N.R. Ker, 'Medieval Manuscripts from Norwich cathedral priory' in Books, collectors and libraries: Studies in the medieval heritage, ed. by Andrew Watson (London: Hambledon Press, 1985), pp. 243-72 (pp. 250, 256).
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), pp. 535-36.
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. 1385-86, 1508, passim.
Joan A Holladay, 'Women in English Royal Genealogies of the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries', in The four modes of seeing : approaches to medieval imagery in honor of Madeline Harrison Caviness, ed. by Evelyn Staudinger Lane, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, and Ellen M. Shortell. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 348-64 (pp. 349, 353, 358 figs 20.1, 20.2).
Margaret Lamont, 'Genealogical History and the English Roll' in Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users: A Special Issue of Viator in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), pp 245-61 (pp. 256, n. 33, 258, n. 36).
Olivier de Laborderie, Histoire, mémoire et pouvoir: les généalogies en rouleau des rois d'Angleterre: 1250-1422 (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013), no. BL7, p. 502, passim.
Olivier de Laborderie, 'The first manuals of English History: Two Late Thirteenth-Century Genealogical Rolls of the Kings of England in the Royal Collection', Electronic British Library Journal (2014), article 4, p. 4.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)