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Add MS 21368

Record Id:

032-002033758

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002033758

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000043.0x0001ee

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100161518733.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 21368

Title:

Genealogical roll chronicle of English kings to Richard II

Scope & Content:

Contents:

A genealogical chronicle from the reign of Egbert to Richard II with a commentary in Anglo-Norman French up to Henry III.

Face:

Membrane 1 is damaged, so that the Heptarchy diagram and the beginning of the commentary is lacking; begins ' [...]ment cum en Engleterre. E pur ceo ke Engleterre est semblable'; a poem from Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, in Latin. The same poem is found in two comparable rolls in Anglo-Norman, Lansdowne Roll 3 and London, College of Arms ms 3/23, and in several rolls in Latin, including Add MS 30079.

Membranes 1-3: A genealogical diagram from Egbert (here named 'Aethelbert') to Richard II.

Dorse (abbreviated as d):

Membranes 1d-3d: Additional commentary on the genealogy, up to the reign of Henry III, with a Latin genealogy of Aethelwulf, going back to Adam, added at the top of Membrane 2d.

Decoration: Genealogical diagram with roundels and lines in red. One initial 'I'(ceste) at the beginning of the commentary and numerous paraphs in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002033758

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-002033758

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 roll

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Anglo-Norman
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1397

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

1397 - 1399

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: parchment.

Dimensions of roll: 2250mm x 190 mm.

Arrangement: 3 unfoliated parchment leaves (membranes), stitched together end-to-end, with a modern parchment membrane attached to the upper edge, forming a wrapper.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Perhaps copied in the circle of Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent (b. 1350, d. 1397) and John Holland, Duke of Exeter (b. c. 1352, d. 1400), the two half-brothers of King Richard II (b. 1367, d. 1400): the genealogy gives precedence to these two figures, clearly showing their descent from Edward I through their mother, 'Johane Holande princesse de Wales' (membrane 3). The roll was produced between 1397, when John Holland was awarded the dukedom, and Richard II's deposition in 1399 (see Laborderie, Histoire (2013), p. 224)

Notes and pen-trials in black ink on the face and dorse of the 3rd membrane.

Francis Moore (b. 1767, d. 1854), Deputy Secretary of War, later historian and manuscript collector of Paris: his sale, Puttick and Simpson, 28 April, 1856, lot 139; bought by the British Museum for 4 pounds 2 shillings.

Publications:

Thomas Wright, Feudal Manuals of English History (London, 1872), pp. xiii, 38-60.

The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1854-1860 (London: British Museum, 1875), p. 359.

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' (unpubl. PhD thesis: University of London, 1989), pp. 533-35.

Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), no. 6.

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. 1377-78, 1508 passim).

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. 246, n. 6, 257, n. 33).

Olivier de Laborderie, Histoire, mémoire et pouvoir: les généalogies en rouleau des rois d'Angleterre: 1250-1422 (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013), no. BL3, p. 502 passim.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)