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Add MS 24026
- Record Id:
- 032-002097658
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002097658
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000041.0x0003c0
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161518748.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 24026
- Title:
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Genealogical roll chronicle of the kings of England to Edward IV and of the Dukes of Normandy
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
A Genealogical chronicle with a commentary in Latin.
Recto:
Membranes 1-5: A genealogical diagram of the kings of England from Egbert (r. 802-839) to Henry VI (r. 1422-1461) accompanied by a commentary in Latin up to Richard II; on Membrane 4, in the left margin, alongside the roundels for Henry III and Edward III is a short diagram of the Scottish kings from Alexander II to Edward Balliol;
Membrane 5: A continuation of the diagram to Edward IV.
Dorse (abbreviated as d):
Membranes 1d-2d: Blank.
Membrane 3d: A genealogical diagram of the Dukes of Normandy from Rollo to Robert 'Curthose', with commentary for Rollo only.
Membrane 4d-5d: A diagram of the descendants of Henry III showing the lineage of the houses of Lancaster, York and Northumbria.
Decoration:
A genealogical diagram with lines in red, blue, green, brown, orange or yellow and roundels in brown or red, some with crowns in brown with jewels in red and blue. Initials in red or blue, some with penwork decoration in the other colour in the commentary. Highlighting in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002097658
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002097658
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment roll
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161518748.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1475
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 3150 mm x 300 mm
Arrangement: 5 unfoliated parchment membranes joined together end-to-end; a small parchment membrane added to the outer edge to form a wrapper.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance: An inscription on the dorse (membrane 5d) in a ?16th-century hand, 'This I can spare for a month'.
Deacon O'Brien O'Feely, bought from him by the British Museum, 31 December 1860.
- Publications:
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The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts,1854-1860 (London: British Museum, 1875), p. 938.
Sydney Anglo, 'The British History in early Tudor propaganda', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 44 (Sept 1961), 17-48 (pp. 41-48).
Margaret Howell, 'The Children of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence', Thirteenth century England IV: Selected papers of the 4th Biennial conference, ed. by Peter R Coss and Simon Lloyd (Cambridge: Boydell, 1992), pp. 58-72 (p. 59, n. 13).
Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), no. 6.
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. 35-36.
Joan A Holladay, 'Women in English Royal Genealogies of the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries', in The four modes of seeing: approaches to medieval imagery in honor of Madeline Harrison Caviness, ed. by Evelyn Staudinger Lane, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, and Ellen M. Shortell (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 348-64 (pp. 359-60, pl. 20.4).
Robert A. Maxwell, Representing History, 900-1300: Art, Music, History (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 123, 125, fig. 43.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)