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Cotton MS Augustus II 1
- Record Id:
- 040-001102005
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x000138
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Augustus II 1
- Title:
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William Vertue (?), Design for a proposed funerary monument for King Henry VI of England (r. 1422–1461, 1470–1471) at Westminster Abbey
- Scope & Content:
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Design in pen and grey-brown washes for a monument proposed for the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey constructed by King Henry VII, linked to an effort to canonize Henry VI. The shrine was never built: a tomb for Henry VII and his queen was instead erected on the site.
Inscribed in a 17th-century hand, ‘The Monument intended for Kinge Henry the sixte.’
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102005 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Augustus II 1 : William Vertue (?), Design for a proposed funerary monument for King Henry VI of England (r. 1422–1461, 1470–1471)… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0289]/040-001102005
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment leaf
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1510
- End Date:
- 1515
- Date Range:
- 1510-1515
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 582 × 385–90 mm.
Binding: British Museum, 1959.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Probably the work of William Vertue (d. 1527), king’s chief master mason, 1510–27.
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton. Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7. Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Publications:
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Harvey, John, ‘Early Tudor draughtsmen’, in L. G. G. Ramsey (ed.), The Connoisseur Coronation Book, 1953 (London: Connoisseur, 1953), pp. 100–01.
Lindley, Phillip, ‘“The singuler mediacions and praiers of al the holie companie of Heven”: sculptural functions and forms in Henry VII’s chapel’, in Westminster Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry VII, edited by Tim Tatton-Brown and Richard Mortimer (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003), pp. 262–66.
Wilson, Christopher, ‘Drawing of a canopied funerary monument’, in Gothic: Art for England 1400–1547, edited by Richard Marks and Paul Williamson (London: V&A, 2003), no. 27.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)