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Add MS 24663
- Record Id:
- 032-002031947
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002031947
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000043.0x0000ae
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100193728612.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 24663
- Title:
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Collection of prophecies in prose and verse, attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-48r: Collection of prophecies in prose and verse attributed variously to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others, written in Middle English, Latin and French.
f. 48v is blank.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002031947", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 24663: Collection of prophecies in prose and verse, attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002031947
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002031947
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100193728612.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English, Middle
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1560
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 205 x 145 mm (written space varies).
Foliation: ff. 48 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather binding, tooled in gold; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Thomas Tenison (b. 1636, d. 1715), Archbishop of Canterbury: acquired by him or his library in London, founded in 1684; sale of his library, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sotheby's, 1 July 1861, lot 73.
Joseph Lilly (b. 1804, d. 1870), bookseller: purchased from him by the British Museum, 17 May 1862, together with Add MSS 24657-24669 (see inscribed note, f. [iv] recto).
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875 (London: British Museum, 1877), pp. 94-95.
Marjorie Reeves, 'Joachimist Influences on the Idea of a Last World Emperor', Traditio, 17 (1961), 323-70 (p. 332).
Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), p. 531.
Jessica L. Malay, 'Performing the Apocalypse: Sibylline Prophecy and Elizabeth I', in Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture, ed. by Alessandra Petrina and Laura Tosi (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 175-92.
Eric Weiskott, 'The Ireland Prophecy: Text and Metrical Context', Studies in Philology, 114 (2017), 247-77 (p. 246).
Eric Weiskott, 'The Idea of Bede in English Political Prophecy', in Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England's Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries, ed. by Jay Paul Gates and Britain T. O'Camb (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 270-88 (p. 275).
Eric Weiskott, Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), pp. 34, 61, 69, 77, 188, 209, 213-15, 217, 219.
Kimberly Fonzo, Restrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022), pp. 136-37.
Misha Teramura, 'Prophecy and emendation: Merlin, Chaucer, Lear's Fool', in Prophetic Futures, ed. by Joseph Bowling and Katherine Walker (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 49-66 (p. 55).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)