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Add MS 26769
- Record Id:
- 032-002030542
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002030542
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x00024f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100140100766.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 26769
- Title:
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Genealogical chronicle of the kings of France to Charles VII
- Scope & Content:
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A genealogical chronicle of the kings of France known as ‘A tous nobles’. The chronicle consists of:
Membranes 1-7: A central diagram with roundels in brown containing the names of kings joined by a line of descent in red. Roundels concerning the deeds of rulers (founding of religious orders or foundations) or the period of their reign are placed outside the central column and in the margins. Text in the roundels is in red or brown. The accompanying commentary is in two columns on either side of the central tree, and is divided into paragraphs, each beginning with rubric and an initial in red. The opening rubric begins: ‘Cy aprés s’ensuyvent les lignees des roys de France.' (membrane 1) The commentary begins, 'A tous nobles qui ayment beaux faiz et belles hystoires vueil escripre’ (left column, membrane 1).
Membranes 1-2: A series of roundels with the acts of early popes down to 'Gerbers arcevesque de Ravenne’ (Sylvester II) in the left margin; a series of roundels with acts of early saints down to saint 'Leu' in the right margin.
Membranes 2-3: A series of roundels following the saints in the right margin, with 6th- to 8th- century emperors down to Constantine VI (succeeded by Charlemagne in the West) and with the first Merovingian mayors of the palace; the family of Pépin links into the central diagram (membrane 3).
Membrane 7: The commentary ends: on the right hand column [year 1358] ‘En cest an fut la paix faicte entre les roys de France, d’Engleterre et de Navarre et sollempnement cryee a Paris.’; on the left hand column [year 1372] ‘Cestui roy ot moult de peine de mectre son royaume en paix. Et tant fist a l’ayde de Dieu et de ces freres qu’il mist son royaume en bon estat et bien le gouverna.’ The last roundels contain the children of Charles VI, including dauphin Louis, who died in 1415, and the future Charles VII as “Philippe” count of Ponthieu.
The dorse of the roll is blank (dorse abbreviated as d).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002030542
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002030542
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100140100766.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 4020 x 333 mm.
Arrangement: 7 membranes joined together end-to-end to form a roll.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France.
Provenance:
The genealogy was probably created before 1415 when 'Loys duc de Guienne' died, and his brother 'Jehan duc de Touraine' became dauphin in turn. The text ends with the reign of Charles V, but without recording his death in 1380. This manuscript may have been copied later than 1415 without the contents being updated (according to Marigold Norbye, unpublished codicological description, 2004).
Purchased by the British Museum from Puttick and Co, 15 July 1865, lot 6821 (a note on the dorse, membrane 1).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1854-1875, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1877), II, p. 282.
François Fossier, ‘Chroniques Universelles en forme de rouleau à la fin du Moyen Âge’, Bulletin de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France (1980-81), p. 174, note 1.
Marigold Anne Norbye, ‘Genealogies and dynastic awareness in the Hundred Years War: The evidence of A tous nobles qui aiment beaux faits et bonnes histoires’, Journal of Medieval History, 33 (2007), pp. 297-319 (p. 318), online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.jmedhist.2007.07.002 [accessed 24.05.2021].
Marigold Anne Norbye, ‘A tous nobles qui aiment beaux faits et bonnes histoires – the multiple transformations of a fifteenth-century French genealogical chronicle’, in The Medieval Chronicle, ed. by Eric Kooper, 5 (2008), pp. 175-96 (p. 193).
Nicole Pons, ‘La propagande de guerre française avant l’apparition de Jeanne d’Arc’, Journal des Savants (April to June, 1982), p. 212, note 79.
Sanford C. Zale, 'Unofficial Histories of France in the late Middle Ages' (unpublished doctoral thesis, The Ohio State University, 1994), p. 69, note 32.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)