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Add MS 5408
- Record Id:
- 032-003441718
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003441718
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075949233.0x0000e9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162920048.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 5408
- Title:
- Queen Elizabeth I's funeral procession
- Scope & Content:
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Original pen and ink drawing of Elizabeth I's funeral procession, 1603. It is attributed to William Camden, Clarenceaux herald: although he may not have been the artist, the hand recording the names of the figures resembles his.
It includes the chariot drawn by four horses on which stood Elizabeth's coffin; civic authorities (e.g. officers to the Lord Mayor of London, the Aldermen and Recorder of London, and the Lord Mayor); various members of the royal household (grooms, yeomen, clerks, children and gentlemen of the chapel, sergeants, chaplains, secretaries, Sir Edward Carey, the Master of the Jewel House, and Sir John Fortescue, Chancellor of the Exchequer); heralds; poor women and men; John Whitgift, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and several of Elizabeth's courtiers, such as Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Robert Cecil, and her principal mourner, the Lady Marchioness of Northampton. Camden is himself depicted among the heralds, bearing a coat decorated with fleur-de-lis and lions passant-guardant. The end of the procession is not visible, as the manuscript has been damaged.
This manuscript and Add MS 35324, ff. 26r–39r, are the first pictorial records of the funeral procession of an English sovereign.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003441718
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003441718
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162920048.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1603
- End Date:
- 1624
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 205 x 8390 mm (original roll) + 130 x 160 mm (label recording Wilmot's gift.)
Foliation: none.
Binding: none.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Presented to the British Museum by John Eardley Wilmot (bap. 1749–1815, later John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot), in 1791. Wilmot found it among the papers of Peter Sainthill, his first wife’s grandfather.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions made to the Department of Manuscripts Since the Publication of Mr Ayscough's Catalogue in 1782, Vol. III (1833), handwritten catalogue in the British Library's Manuscripts Reading Room, volume 22, p. 1.
Vetusta Monumenta, III (London: Society of Antiquaries, 1796), plates 18–24.
Jennifer Woodward, The Theatre of Death: The Ritual Management of Royal Funerals in Renaissance England, 1570–1625 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1997), p. 87.
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)