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Stowe MS 30
- Record Id:
- 040-001952807
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000493.0x000234
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163541898.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 30
- Title:
- Prayer book presented to Queen Elizabeth I
- Scope & Content:
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Illustrated prayer book, in various languages, dated 1578 and presented to Queen Elizabeth I for New Year. Written in inks of various colours, with illuminated titles and initials.
Possibly presented by William Absolon (Lawson, ‘This Remembrance of the New Year’, p. 143). Previously also associated with Petruccio Ubaldini (see Rigg, Ricci).
f. 1r: Ornamental title-page, with the royal arms, the date 1578, and the inscription ‘Deus tueatur Reginam Elizabeth’.
ff. 2r-3v: Short poem in Latin elegiacs, titled ‘De illustrissima Regina Angliæ certamen Deorum, Foeminam eam an Virum nasci vellent, an neutrum, an utrumque’.
ff. 4r-95r: Collection of prayers, in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Hebrew. In inks of various colours, with illumination and decoration. Dated 1578.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001952786
040-001952807 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 10-30 : CLASS II.LITURGICAL BOOKS.
Stowe MS 30 : Prayer book presented to Queen Elizabeth I - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0002]/036-001952786[0021]/040-001952807
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100163541898.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Dutch
English
French
German
Greek, Ancient
Hebrew
Italian
Latin
Spanish - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1578
- End Date:
- 1578
- Date Range:
- 1578
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 160 x 110 mm.
Foliation: ff. vi + 95.
Binding: Pre-1600. Red velvet binding, with the embroidered initials ‘E.R.’ on spine.
Script: Italic, humanist, gothic, secretary.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603), queen of England and Ireland: former owner.
Thomas Astle (1735–1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: former owner, his inscription f. ii.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), I, no. 30.
Fairbank, Alfred, and Berthold Wolpe, eds., Renaissance Handwriting: An Anthology of Italic Scripts (London: Faber and Faber, 1960), no. 44.
Lawson, Jane A., ‘This Remembrance of the New Year: Books Given to Queen Elizabeth as New Year’s Gifts’, in Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing, ed. by Peter Beal and Grace Ioppolo (London: The British Library, 2007), 133-72 (p. 143).
Ricci, Maria, ‘Petruccio Ubaldini’, PhD thesis (Università degli Studi di Firenze, 1940), p. 102.
Rigg, J. M. ‘Ubaldini, Petruccio (1524?–1600?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography archive edition, first published 1899 (accessed 20 January 2020).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)