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Kings MS 9
- Record Id:
- 040-002016925
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002016915
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001207.0x0002d3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165170795.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Kings MS 9
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (''Anne Boleyn''s Book of Hours'')
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-255v: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum;
ff. 256r-303v: Devotional miscellany.
Decoration:
The Book of Hours (ff. 1-255) may have been illuminated by a Flemish artist, active in the Tudor court (Blackhouse, Books (1985), p. 79). The manuscript has also been attributed to a Paris workshop (Henry VII: Man and Monarch (2009), p. 117).
The English rubrics in the appended devotional miscellany (ff. 256-303) indicate that it is likely to have been produced in England.
For a detailed description of the decoration see the individual entries for each part.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- King's Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002016915
040-002016925 - Is part of:
- Kings MS 1-446 : King's Manuscripts
Kings MS 9 : Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (''Anne Boleyn''s Book of Hours'') - Contains:
- Kings MS 9, ff 1-255 : Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Kings MS 9, ff 256-303 : Devotional miscellany
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Kings MS 9 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002016915[0008]/040-002016925
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Kings MS 1-446
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165170795.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1495
- End Date:
- 1505
- Date Range:
- c 1500
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 135 x 195 mm (text space: 100 x 65 mm (ff. 1-255); 105 x 65 mm (ff. 256-303)) .
Foliation: ff. 303 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 2 at the end).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Red leather, gold-tooled with the arms of George I or II, and the added initials ''GR III''; gilt edges; pink silk endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Bruges, Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) (ff. 1-255); England (ff. 256-303).
Provenance: Henry Reppes (d. 1558), of Mendham, Suffolk: inscribed by him ''Henry Reppes / Elizabeth Reppes'' (his first wife) (f. 1r); the inclusion of a miniature of Eltheldreda (f. 64v) is consistent with an East Anglian patron.
Anne Boleyn (b. circa 1500, d. 1536), queen of England, second consort of Henry VIII: inscribed by Anne Boleyn in English ''Be daly prove you shalle me fynde to be to you bothe lovynge and kynde'' (f. 66v).
King Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547), king of England and Ireland: inscription in French ''Si silon mon affection la sufvenance sera en voz prieres ne seray gers oblie car vostre suis Henry R. a jammays'' (''If you remember my love in your prayers as strongly as I adore you, I shall hardly be forgotten, for I am yours. Henry R. forever'') (f. 231v).
King George II (b. 1683, d. 1760): his royal coat of arms stamped on the covers.
King George III (b. 1738, d. 1820): ''III'' and ''G. R.'' added to royal coat of arms on the covers.
Given to the British Museum by King George IV in 1823 as part of the library of King George III (known as the ''King''s Library'').
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), III: Description of the King’s Manuscripts and Indexes to both Collections, pp. 4-6.
Janet Backhouse, Books of Hours (London, British Library, 1985), fig. 67, pp. 73, 79.
John N. King, Tudor Royal Iconography: Literature and Art in an Age of Religious Crisis (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), pp. 6-7.
Sophie Page, Astrology in Medieval Manuscript (London: British Library, 2002), p. 39.
Pamela Porter, Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003), p. 39.
Janet Backhouse, Illuminations from Books of Hours (London: British Library, 2004), pl. 44.
James P. Carley, The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives, preface by David Starkey (London: British Library, 2004), pls 93, 94.
Henry VIII: Man and Monarch, ed. by Susan Doran (London: British Library, 2009), no. 108 exhibition catalogue.
- Exhibitions:
- Discovering literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance, (online), 30 April 2016-
Les Vrais Tudors, Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, 16 March 2015 - 19 July 2015 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
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Anne Boleyn''s Book of Hours, Paris c 1528. Exhibited: Les Vrais Tudors, Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, 16 March 2015 - 19 July 2015
Exhibited: Shakespeare and Renaissance writers (online), 30/04/2016-