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Stowe MS 73
- Record Id:
- 040-001952855
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000493.0x00025f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161518843.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 73
- Title:
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A genealogical chronicle of the kings of England to Edward IV
- Scope & Content:
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A genealogical chronicle, formerly in concertina format, now a codex.
Contents:
An abbreviated version in English of a genealogical chronicle from Adam to the beginning of the reign of Edward IV, of the type known as the 'Considerans' chronicle, named from the opening words of the Latin prologue, 'Considerans historie sacre prolixitatem'. The prologue here begins, 'Consideryng the greet desire of many men that wold have knowlege of olde cronicles'. The contents are an incomplete English version of the Latin chronicle in Stowe MS 72, copied by the same scribe.
The genealogy is in two columns, tracing the lineages of the Old Testament figures from Shem, son of Noah on the left, beginning at f. 3r /no. 3 and the descent of the English kings from Brutus in the centre (f. 4v/no. 6). The Anglo-Saxon heptarchy is represented by a series of roundels without lines of descent (ff. 30v-37r). The single line is re-established at Ethelbaldus, with a new line beginning for the Dukes of Normandy, beginning with Rollo, on the left, and descendants of the kings on the right (f. 39r). The genealogy ends at Edward IV, with a line of descent continiuing to the lower edge of the page, where the final section is missing (f. 47v).
Decoration:
A large triple roundel for Adam at the beginning (f. 1r). Double roundels in red and lines of descent in red or brown with names in brown (ff. 1r-48r). The name 'Lucius', first Christian king of Britain (f. 22v), the names of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (f. 30v) and the rubric, 'Dukes of Normandy' (f. 39r) are written in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001952833
037-001952839
040-001952855 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 54-310 : CLASS IV.HISTORY.
Stowe MS 58-83 : SECT. II. — ENGLISH.
Stowe MS 73 : A genealogical chronicle of the kings of England to Edward IV - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0004]/036-001952833[0002]/037-001952839[0016]/040-001952855
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161518843.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1461
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 1461-1499
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 210 x 145 mm (text space: 170 x 110 mm)
Format: The text is written on one side of the parchment, which was then folded lengthwise, concertina-style, rather than rolled. The manuscript was later cut into folios at the folds and rebound as a codex with text pages facing each other, so that the text is on f. 2v and 3r, 4v and 5r, etc, and the intervening folios are blank; the codex must be turned sideways to be read.
Foliation: ff. 48 (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and two at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Edward Rowe Mores (b. 1730, d. 1778), antiquary and historian of printing: inscribed 'Edw. Rowe Mores 27 Sept. 1750' (f. 3r); his sale, 2 August 1779.
Erased inscription (f. 47r).
Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts in 1779: inscribed ‘Bibl. Thomas Astlei 1779’ (f. 1r).
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham: inscribed with the press-mark 'Press VIII No. 33' (inside lower cover) corresponding to his catalogue; see O’Conor 1819.Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex; his son, Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883.
- Publications:
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Charles O'Conor, Bibliotheca Ms. Stowensis: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Stowe Library, 2 vols (Buckingham: Seeley, 1818-1819), II, 511.
Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), no. 73.
Edward Donald Kennedy, XII: Chronicles and Other Historical Writing, A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050-1500, ed. by Albert E. Hartung, 8 (New Haven: Archon Books, 1989), p. 2890.
Alison R Allan, 'Political propaganda employed by the House of York in England in the mid-fifteenth century, 1450-1471' (unpublished PhD thesis, University College of Swansea, 1981), pp. 281-82.
Maree Shirota, ‘Neither Roll nor Codex: Accordion Genealogies of the Kings of England from the Fifteenth Century’ in The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages, ed. by Stefan Holz, Jorg Peltzer and Maree Shirota (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019), pp. 263-88 (pp. 266, n. 19, 282).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)