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Add MS 22047
- Record Id:
- 032-002034508
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002034508
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000043.0x00033e
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 22047
- Title:
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The Anthony Roll
- Scope & Content:
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Anthony Anthony, ‘The second Rolle declaryng the Nombre of the Kynges Maiestys owne Galliasses’. A visual record of all the ships in Henry’s navy at the end of his life, interspersed with a list of their seamen and armaments. This roll shows the galleasses (heavily armed three-masted galleys).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002034508
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002034508
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment roll
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_22047 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1546
- End Date:
- 1546
- Date Range:
- 1546
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 5020 × 700 mm.
Foliation: 6 membranes.
Script: Gothic cursive (hand of Anthony Anthony?).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England. One of three rolls presented to Henry VIII in 1546 by Anthony Anthony, an official of the ordnance.
Provenance:
The other two rolls, which depict the warships, pinnaces and row barges, were bound in one volume after Charles II gave them to Samuel Pepys. The Pepys volume is now in the Pepys Library in Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Lady Mary Fox (b. 1798, d. 1864). Purchased by the British Museum 23 May 1857.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1854–1860 (London: British Museum, 1875), p. 580.
E.R. Adair, ‘English Galleys in the Sixteenth Century’, English Historical Review, 35 (1920), pp. 498–504.
Otto Treptow, John Siberch; Johann Lair von Siegburg (Cambridge: Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 1970), p. 79.
The Anthony Roll of Henry VIII's Navy, ed. by C.S. Knighton and D.M. Loades (Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2000).
Joe Flatman, The Illuminated Ark: Interrogating Evidence from Manuscript Illuminations and Archaeological Remains for Medieval Vessels (Oxford: Hedges, 2007).
D. M. Loades, The Making of the Elizabethan Navy, 1540-1590: From the Solent to the Armada (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2009), p. 38.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)