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Stowe MS 582
- Record Id:
- 040-001953406
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x000074
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165174404.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 582
- Title:
- Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France, an anonymous French account of the consecration, coronation, and royal entrée into Paris of Claude de France (b. 1499, d. 1524), Queen of France, and wife of Francis I (r. 1515-1547), which took place on 10-12 May 1517. The illustrated account describes the ceremonies as well as the pageants and tableaux vivants that were staged around the city by Pierre Gringoire (b. 1475, d. 1538) as part of the celebrations. Gringoire was a popular French poet and playwright, who had previously organised the pageants and public celebrations for the reception of Mary Tudor (b. 1496, d. 1533), Queen of France, in Paris on 6 November 1514.
At least five other illuminated manuscripts of Le Sacre, Couronnement et Entrée de Claude de France survive: London, British Library, Cotton MS Titus A XVII; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MSS fr. 5750 and 14116; Paris, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, MS 491; and Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library, MS 1791. The text of the manuscript was also the basis of a printed edition, published in the same year. In addition, Gringoire wrote his own account of the day's proceedings which he subsequently presented to the French Queen, and which now survives as Nantes, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 1337.
Contents:
ff. 1v, 2v: Added titles for the text, possibly written in the hand of the archivist and book collector Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803).
ff. 3r-51v: Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France, written in French prose, beginning, 'Le sacre, couronnement, triumphe et entree de la trés cretienne royne et duchesse, ma souveraine dame et maistresse, madame Claude de France'.
ff. 1r, 2r, and 3v are blank.
Decoration:
The manuscript's decoration was probably undertaken by the artist Jean Coene IV, also known as the Master of the Paris Entries after this and other illuminated copies of the text he produced (on this identification, see König, Boccaccio und Petrarca in Paris, (1997), I, p. 320).
10 large miniatures in architectural frames, in colours and gold (ff. 3r, 18v, 32v, 34r, 35r, 36v, 38r, 39r, 43r, 51v); 1 miniature not executed, except the underdrawing of the frame (f. 46v).
Large decorated initials in gold on red and blue grounds. Smaller initials and line-fillers in gold on red or blue grounds.
The subjects of the miniatures are as follows:
f. 3r: The crowned arms and devices of Claude de France, supported by two angels, girded with a cord to which a greyhound is attached, with a scroll below bearing the French motto of the Queen, 'A ma vie'.
f. 18v: The consecration and coronation of Claude de France as Queen of France at Saint-Denis, 10 May 1517.
f. 32v: The tableau vivant staged at La Porte Saint-Denis, showing Claude de France in the centre, crowned by a dove, surrounded by six Old Testament heroines (Rebecca, Ester, Deborah, Sarah, Leah, and Rachel) and below, female personifications of the four Cardinal virtues (Prudence, Temperance, Justice, and Magnanimity).
f. 34r: The tableau vivant staged at La Fontaine du Ponceau, showing Claude de France accompanied by the two 'filles de France', most likely the two royal princesses Renee de France (b. 1510, d. 1575) and Marguerite de Angouleme (b. 1492, d. 1549), beneath a scroll, bearing the Latin phrase, 'Rex plantavit, ego rigam, deus autem incrementum dedit', inspired by the Biblical verse of 1 Corinthians 3: 6. Below, a golden fountain, with the salamander of Francis I and the ermine of Claude de France holding a French lily between them, set within a garden.
f. 35r: The tableau vivant staged at La Trinité, arranged in two registers: on the upper register, Francis I and Claude de France in the centre, accompanied by personifications of Prudence and 'Congnoissance' on the left, and Bon Conseil and Bon Vouloir on the right; on the lower register, a labourer between personifications of Prouesse and Concorde, brandishing clubs, with the accompanying caption 'Le peuple francoys'.
f. 36v: The tableau vivant staged at La Porte aux Peintres, arranged in two registers: on the upper register, a personification of Charity enclosed within a golden sun-shaped circle, while a personification of Faith holding a banner emerges from a lily. On either side appear four different nymphs: a hamadryad holding a green branch; an oread holding grapes; a naiad watering the earth; and a napae holding a flower. On the lower register, the infant Tantalus pours 'living water' from a golden phial into vessels held up by the Pope, the Emperor, and the King, as well as a number of cardinals, bishops, and princes.
f. 38r: The tableau vivant staged at La Fontaine des Innocents, arranged in two registers: on the upper register, three female personifications of Amour Naturelle, Amour Divine, and Amour Conjugalle, emerging from an open heart; on the lower register, three mythical and Biblical couples, David and Abigail, Julia and Portia, and Coriolanus and his mother Veturia.
f. 39r: The tableau vivant staged at La Place du Châtelet, showing the family tree and royal lineage of Claude de France.
f. 43r: The tableau vivant staged at Le Palais-Royal, arranged in two registers: on the upper register, Louis IX (r. 1226-1270), crowned and enthroned, alongside his mother Blanche of Castile (b. 1188, d. 1252), and a personification of Justice; on the lower register, three petitioners, a poor beggar, a labourer, and a mercenary, and below, two pairs of salamanders, each supporting the arms of Francis I and Claude de France.
f. 51v: An emblematic miniature, representing the two opposing parties in the tournament that was held following the entrée of Claude de France into Paris.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Medieval and Renaissance Women
Stowe Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001953401
040-001953406 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 578-588 : CLASS XIII.CEREMONIALS.
Stowe MS 582 : Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0013]/036-001953401[0005]/040-001953406
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165174404.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1517
- End Date:
- 1517
- Date Range:
- 1517
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment and Paper (ff. 1-2 only).
Dimensions: 220 x 150 mm (written space: 150 x 95 mm).
Foliation: ff. 51 (+ 2 paper flyleaves after f. 1 + 4 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled red leather, with the arms and cipher (crowned initials 'PP') of Philippe de Bethune (b. 1565, d. 1649), Comte de Bethune, gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers; gilt edges; marbled endpapers (see Guigard, Nouvel Armorial (1890), II, p. 56).
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Paris, France.
Provenance:
Philippe de Bethune (b. 1565, d. 1649), Comte de Béthune: the binding, gold-stamped with his arms and cipher (crowned initials 'PP') on the upper and lower covers.
Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts: inscribed title of the manuscript, possibly written in his hand, 'Sacre et couronnement de Claude de France / fille du Roy Louis 12e et d'Anne de Bretagne / fait en l'abbaye St Denis' (f. 1v) and, 'Sacre et couronnement de Claude de France / fille du Roy Louis 12e et d'Anne de Bretagne / femme du Roy Francois premier, fait en / l'abbaye de St Denis' (f. 2v).
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 8 no. 54' (f. 1), corresponding to his catalogue (O'Conor 1818-1819).
Richard Plantagenet 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.
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.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts.
- 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, p. 517.
Joannis Guigard, Nouvel Armorial du Bibliophile: Guide de l'Amateur des Livres Armories, 2 vols (Paris: 1890), II, p. 56.
Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), no. 582.
Anne-Marie Lecoq, François Ier imaginaire. Symbolique et politique à l'aube de la Renaissance française (Paris: Macula, 1987), pp. 266-68, 377-91.
Gordon L. Kipling, ‘'He That Saw It Would Not Believe It': Anne Boleyn's Royal Entry into London', in Civil Ritual and Drama, ed. by Alexandra F. Johnston and Wim Hüsken (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 39-79 (pp. 55, pl. 2, 76 n. 53).
Gordon Kipling, Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in the Medieval Civic Triumph (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. 69 n. 45, 298 n. 12, 334 n. 93; pls. 40, 48.
Pierre Gringoire, Les entrees royales a Paris de Marie d'Angleterre (1514) et Claude de France (1517), ed. by Cynthia J. Brown (Geneva: Droz, 2005), pp. 75 n. 208, p. 78, n. 216, 273-315 [edition].
Margaret Scott, Medieval Dress & Fashion (London: British Library, 2007), p. 180, pl. 109.
Isabelle Delaunay, 'Le maître des entrées parisiennes', Art de l’enluminure, 26 (2008), 52-61 (p. 54).
Meg Twycross, 'The Widow and Nemesis: Costuming Two Allegorical Figures in a Play for Queen Mary Tudor', The Yearbook of English Studies (2013), 262-280 (pp. 269, 272).
Myra D. Orth, Renaissance Manuscripts. The Sixteenth Century, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2015), II, pp. 88-91.
A Knight for the Ages: Jacques de Lalaing and the Art of Chivalry, ed. by Elizabeth Morrison (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty, Museum, 2018), p. 133 n. 66.
Emily C. Francomano, The Prison of Love: Romance, Translation, and the Book in the Sixteenth Century (London: University of Toronto Press, 2018), p. 186.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)