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Stowe MS 594
- Record Id:
- 040-001953419
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x000080
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165174494.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 594
- Title:
- William Bruges’ Garter Book
- Scope & Content:
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The first armorial for the Order of the Garter, containing portraits of the knights founder:
f. 5v: Saint George, as patron of the order of the Garter, together with another knight, possibly William Bruges.
f. 7v: Edward III of England.
f. 8r: Henry Duke of Lancaster.
f. 8v: Jean de Grailly, Captal de Buch.
f. 9r: William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury.
f. 9v: John Lisle, Lord de Lisle.
f. 10r: John Beauchamp, Lord Beauchamp.
f. 10v: Sir Hugh Courtenay.
f. 11r: John de Grey, Lord Grey of Rotherfield.
f. 11v: Sir Miles Stapleton.
f. 12r: Sir Hugh Wrottesley.
f. 12v: Sir John Chandos.
f. 13r: Sir Otho Holand.
f. 13v: Sir Sanchete Dabrichecourt.
f. 14r: Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales.
f. 14v: Thomas de Beauchamp, 3rd Earl of Warwick.
f. 15r: Ralph Stafford, Earl of Stafford.
f. 15v: Roger Mortimer, Earl of March.
f. 16r: Bartholomew Burghersh, Baron Burghersh.
f. 16v: John Mohun, Baron Mohun.
f. 17r: Thomas Holand, Earl of Kent.
f. 17v: Sir Richard Fitz-Simon.
f. 18r: Sir Thomas Wale.
f. 18v: Sir Nigel Loring.
f. 19r: Sir James Audeley.
f. 19v: Sir Henry Eam.
f. 20r: Sir Walter Paveley.
Decoration:
27 full page miniatures in pen and watercolours, 26 with a standing knight holding a panel with heraldic shields of successors in his Garter stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor, and 1 of George and the dragon and a kneeling Garter King (the principal officer of the Order).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001953413
040-001953419 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 589-597 : CLASS XIV.PEERAGE, ORDER OF THE GARTER, ETC.
Stowe MS 594 : William Bruges’ Garter Book - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0014]/036-001953413[0006]/040-001953419
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165174494.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1430
- End Date:
- 1439
- Date Range:
- 1430s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: The leaves were rearranged and are now mounted on paper leaves, with ff. 1–3 being are later notes, and f. 4 a page from a printed book. A watermark of a barbed anchor with a small cross (ff. 5 (portion), 20), is similar to C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 389 (Estopey 1418; Troyes 1426).
Dimensions: 385 × 285 mm.
Foliation: ff. 20 ( + numerous modern unfoliated paper leaves).
Script: Gothic and Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown diced leather with gold tooling, including flowers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Made for William Bruges (b. c.1375, d. 1450), herald: inscriptions (ff. 6r, 7r); see also Ailes (2004).
John Writhe (d. 1504), herald (see Marks and Williamson, Gothic, 2003).
? Sir Thomas Wriothesley [formerly Writhe] (d. 1534), herald (see Marks and Williamson, Gothic, 2003).
Elias Ashmole (b. 1617, d. 1692), astrologer and antiquary, in 1665 (see Marks and Williamson, Gothic, 2003; O'Conor 1819).
John Anstis (b. 1669, d. 1744), herald and antiquary (see Marks and Williamson, Gothic, 2003).
William Bayntun, F.S A. (d. 1785): inscription (f. 1): bought by Meyrick for 10 guineas.
John Meyrick (d. 1805): his sale, 7 February, lot 958, bought by Towneley for £23.2: inscription (f. 1r).
John Towneley (d. 1816): his bookplate (inside upper cover); bought by the Duke of Buckingham for £25 17s 6d at Towneley's sale in May 1816 according to the inscription cited below (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 IX No. 38' (inside upper cover) corresponding to his catalogue (O'Conor, Bibliotheca, 1819); inscribed 'This book was bought at Mr. Townley's sale for £28: 17.6 Chandos Buckingham' (f. 1r).
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.
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, 552-53.
Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), I, no. 594.
British Heraldry from its Origins to c. 1800, ed. by Richard Marks and Anne Payne (London: British Museum, 1978), no. 237 [exhibition catalogue].
Ann Payne, 'The Salisbury Roll of Arms, c. 1463', in England in the Fifteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1986 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. by Daniel Williams (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1987), pp. 187-98 (pp. 190-91, pl. 5).
Two East Anglian Picture Books: A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburghe Club, 1988), p. 16 n. 2.
Kathleen L. Scott, ‘Design, Decoration and Illustration’, in Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375–1475 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 31-64 (p. 56 n. 22).
Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390–1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), II, no. 84 [with additional bibliography].
Ruth J. Dean and Maureen B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Occasional Publications Series, 3 (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), no. 391.1.
Gothic: Art for England, 1400–1547, ed. by Richard Marks and Paul Williamson (London: V&A, 2003), no. 80 [exhibition catalogue, with additional bibliography].
Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 128 [exhibition catalogue].
The Battle of Agincourt, ed. by Anne Curry and Malcolm Mercer (New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with Royal Armouries, 2015), pp. 55, 306 [exhibition catalogue].
- Exhibitions:
- Battle of Agincourt, The White Tower, Royal Armouries, London, 1 April 2015 - 1 July 2015
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- King Edward III and 25 Knights Founders of the Order of the Garter. Exhibited: Battle of Agincourt, The White Tower, Royal Armouries, London, 1 April 2015 - 1 July 2015