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Stowe MS 1066
- Record Id:
- 040-001953926
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001952775
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x00025c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173689.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 1066
- Title:
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Calendar and almanac
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 1r: A set of religious devotions in English, written by Edward Seymour (b. c. 1500, d. 1552), duke of Somerset, from the Tower of London, on the day before his execution, 22 January 1522.
f. 2r-v: Table of contents.
f. 3r-v: Calendar.
ff. 4r-31v: An almanac, containing a series of diagrams and tables, each accompanied by an explanation in English, used to determine the following:
ff. 4r-5r: Dominical letters and leap years.
ff. 5v-6v: Prime or golden number.
ff. 7r-8v: Moveable feasts.
ff. 9r-10r: Epacts.
ff. 10v-13r: Age and phases of the Moon.
ff. 13v-16v: Duration of moonshine.
ff. 17r-21r: Signs of the Moon and appropriate days for purgation, blood-letting and bathing.
ff. 21v-25r: Duration of sunshine.
ff. 26r-29v: Ebb and flow of the tides.
ff. 30r-31v: A 'table of algorithm', used to multiply different sets of numbers together.
ff. 1v and 25v are blank.
Decoration:
Large and small initials and line-fillers in gold on red or blue grounds. 10 diagrams and tables (ff. 4r, 5v, 7r, 9r, 13v, 17r, 21v, 26r, 26v, 30r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Stowe Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001952775
036-001953923
040-001953926 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ms 1-1085 : Stowe Manuscripts
Stowe MS 1064-1080 : CLASS XXIV.SCIENCE, INCLUDING MEDICAL AND COOKERY RECIPES.
Stowe MS 1066 : Calendar and almanac - Hierarchy:
- 032-001952775[0024]/036-001953923[0003]/040-001953926
- 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_100165173689.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1535
- End Date:
- 1550
- Date Range:
- c 1540-1550
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 90 x 70 mm (written space: 65 x 45 mm).
Foliation: ff. 31 (+ 2 blank original parchment leaves after f. 2 + 1 unfoliated parchment stub after f. 17 + 3 original parchment flyleaves and 3 parchment stubs at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Pre-1600. Red velvet over wooden boards.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Edward Seymour (b. c.1500, d. 1552), duke of Somerset (known as Protector Somerset), soldier and royal servant: inscribed, 'Fere of the lord is the begenning of wisdumme. Put thi trust in the lord wt all thine hart. Be not wise in thyne owne conseyte, but fere the Lord and fle frome euele. From the toware, the day before my deth, 1551, E. Somerset.' (f. 1r).
Katherine Seymour [née Grey] (b. 1540?, d. 1568), countess of Hertford, noblewoman and royal kinswoman; secretly married in 1560 to Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford (b. 1539?, d. 1621), the eldest son of Edward Seymour and his wife, Anne Seymour (b. c. 1510, d. 1587), née Stanhope: inscribed, 'Katerine Hartford, Caterine Seamoar' (inside lower cover).
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 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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A Guide to the Manuscripts, Autographs, Charters, Seals, Illuminations and Bindings exhibited in the Department of Manuscripts and in the Grenville Library (London: British Museum, 1895), p. 68.
Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895-1896), I, no. 1066.
Elizabeth Culling, 'The impact of the Reformation on the Tudor royal household to 1553', Unpublished PhD dissertation (Durham University, 1986), p. 240.
Alan Bryson, ''The Speciall Men in Every Shere'. The Edwardian Regime, 1547-1553', Unpublished PhD dissertation (University of St Andrews, 2001), p. 221 n. 133.
Ruth Ahnert, 'Writing in the Tower of London during the Reformation, ca. 1530-1558', Huntingdon Library Quarterly, 72: 2 (2009), 168-192 (pp. 178-83).
Ruth Ahnert, The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 42-48.
Margaret Scard, Edward Seymour: Lord Protector: Tudor King in All but Name (Stroud: The History Press, 2016), p. 239.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)