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Stowe MS 583
- Record Id:
- 040-001953407
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x000075
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100163611228.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 583
- Title:
- Heraldic manuscript, with the order of the christenings of Prince Arthur (1486–1502) and Prince Edward (1537–1553), and pen and ink drawings of processions
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–41r: Heraldic manuscript, with the order of the christenings of Prince Arthur (1486–1502) and Prince Edward (1537–1553), and pen and ink drawings of processions.
f. 1r: Contents list in a modern hand, with the note ‘given to me by Mr Bennet. 1768.’
f. 2v: Fragment of a 16th-century receipt signed by Robert Blackelache.
ff. 3r, 4r–7v: ‘The manner and Order taken for Christeninge of the high and mighty Prince Edward att Hampton Courte’, 15 October 29 Henry VIII [1537]. f. 3r is a pen and ink drawing of the christening.
ff. 8r–10v, 11v–16v: ‘The manner and order taken for the christning of the high and mighty Prince Arthur sonne to the King our soueraigne lord Henry the viith’, 19 September 1486. A different version from Cotton MS Julius B XII, f. 19v. There are pen and ink drawings of the procession on ff. 11v–16v.
ff. 17v–22v: 16th-century treatise ‘of the order and maner of combatinge in listes’, addressed to King Richard II, by Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, Constable of England.
ff. 23v–26v: Pen and ink drawings of a procession, perhaps the order of a funeral of great estate mentioned on the contents page.
ff. 27r–33v: Description of the funeral of Elizabeth, wife of King Henry VII (d. 11 February 1503).
ff. 34r–41r: Pen and ink drawings of Elizabeth I’s procession, featuring Robert and Ambrose Dudley, perhaps the procession to Parliament mentioned on the contents page.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001953401
040-001953407 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 578-588 : CLASS XIII.CEREMONIALS.
Stowe MS 583 : Heraldic manuscript, with the order of the christenings of Prince Arthur (1486–1502) and Prince Edward (1537–1553), and pen and… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0013]/036-001953401[0006]/040-001953407
- 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_100163611228.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1560
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 350 x 250 mm.
Foliation: ff. 41 + 5 (modern endleaves).
Binding: British Museum binding.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Mr Bennet, 1768.
Richard Bull, F S A, 1784.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham.
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 from the 5th Earl of Ashburnham by the British Museum in 1883, together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Sydney Anglo, ‘Financial and Heraldic Records of the English Tournament’, Journal of the Society of Archivists, 2 (1962), 183–95.
Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), I, p. 469.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)