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Add MS 26787
- Record Id:
- 032-002030561
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002030561
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x00025b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163597127.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 26787
- Title:
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John Skelton, Speculum principis
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–30v: Imperfect moral treatise in Latin by John Skelton, poet laureate, and dated Eltham, 28 August 1501. It was revised for presentation to King Henry VIII between June 1509 and May 1512. It is probably the manuscript entitled 'Methodus Skeltonidis laureati' that was once in the library of Lincoln Cathedral. It ends with verses addressed to Henry.
The manuscript remains in its original binding: boards covered with leather, stamped with the royal arms, the Tudor rose, angels supporting scrolls with the legend, 'Hec rosa virtutis de celo missa sereno Eternum florens regia sceptra fere' and the initials H. A.
f. 1r: Slip pasted on with names of former owners (‘Mr Bramley, late of Acton’, ‘Jemima Sewall[?], Hounslow’, ‘Geo Murray, Gt Warren St', 'FitzRoy Sgt[?]', Mar 1854’.)
ff. 2r–24r: Speculum principis.
ff. 24v–26v: Epigram addressed to Henry when he was Duke of York.
ff. 27r–28v: Palinode addressed to Henry as king.
ff. 29r–30v: Skelton's soliloquy bemoaning his lack of favour.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002030561
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002030561
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163597127.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1509
- End Date:
- 1512
- Date Range:
- 1509-1512
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper and parchment.
Dimensions: 160 x 115 mm.
Foliation: ff. 30 + 2 (modern endleaves).
Binding: Original 16th century English binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Perhaps once in Lincoln Cathedral Library.
‘Mr Bramley, late of Acton’; ‘Jemima Sewall[?], Hounslow’; ‘Geo Murray, Gt Warren St'; 'FitzRoy Sgt[?]', Mar 1854’ (list of former owners on f. 1r).
Purchased by the British Museum at Puttick's, 15 July 1865, lot 838.
- Publications:
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David R. Carlson, 'The Latin Writings of John Skelton', Studies in Philology, 88 (1991), 1–125; edition and translation of the manuscript at pp. 35–45.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1854–1875, Volume II (London: British Museum Trustees, 1877), p. 287.
Susan Doran (ed.), Henry VIII: Man and Monarch (London: British Library, 2009), p. 30.
F. M. Salter, 'Skelton's Speculum Principis', Speculum, 9 (1934), 25–37; edition of the manuscript at pp. 33–37.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)