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Title:

Collection of ceremonials, ordinances, and treatises

Scope & Content:

f. 1r: Table of contents added by William Lambarde sometime after 1571.

f. 1v: A short text entitled 'Articula tabule rotunde', incipit: 'Franciscus petrarca cum casibus virorum illustrium. [L]ex militum de Rotunda tabula Arthuris Regis'; added by a mid-15th-century hand.

ff. 2r-12v: Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum secretorum , excerpts, incipit: 'Deus omnipotens custodiat Regem nostrum', explicit: 'Contra autem desiccant corpus et debilitant.'

ff. 13r-19r: Account of proceedings of the Court of Claims held by the Lord Steward, John of Gaunt, before the coronation of Richard II in 1377, rubric: 'Processus factus ad coronacionem Regis Ricardi secundi post conquestum Officia senescalli ac gerendi principalem gladium et scindendi coram Regem die coronationis', incipit: 'Decedente de nutu summi preceptoris.'

ff. 19r-21r: Description of the coronation of Richard II in 1377, rubric: 'Sequitur de coronatione regis', incipit: 'Die vero sancti Swithuni post prandium.'

ff. 21r-25v: Tract on the parliamentary procedure 'Modus tenendi parliamentum'; incipit: 'Hec describitur modus quomodo parliamentum Regis Anglie.'

ff. 26r-33r: A chronicle from the time of Noah to the accession of Richard II, rubric (f. 25v): 'Hic incipit Cronica bona et compendiosa de Regibus Anglie tantum a Noe usque in hunc diem' [i.e. 1377], incipit: 'Noe fuerunt tres filii.'

ff. 34r-37v: Tract on the duel presided by the king, 'Modus faciendi duellum coram rege', incipit: 'En primes les quellez et billez.'

f. 38r: Richard II’s grant of the office of Earl Marshal to Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham, 12 January 1386, incipit: 'Ricardus dei gratia rex anglie et francie.'

ff. 38r-42v: Description of the office of Marshal as held by Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk from 1312, and Earl Marshal from 1315, rubric: 'Cez sount lez usagez qi Thomas de Brothertoun filz au Roy clamoit a user per loffice mareschalcie', incipit: ‘Marescalcia autem est quedam.'

ff. 42v-44r: Ordinances for the army in the expedition to Scotland, known as the Durham ordinances, 17 July 1385, rubric (f. 42r): 'Ceux sount lez estatutz ordenancez et custumez a tenir en lost ordenez et faitz par bone avisement et deliberacioun de nostre tres excellent soverain seignour le Roi Richard et John, Duk de Lancastre Seneschal dengleterre, Thomas Count dessex et de Bukyngham Conestable dengleterre et Thomas de moubray Count de Notyngham mareschall dengleterre...', incipit: 'Premierement qui toutes mannieres de gentz.'

ff. 44v-45r: List of the military commanders during the expedition to Scotland.

ff. 45r-46r: Account of Edward I's campaign in Scotland, 1296, incipit: 'En lan du Reigne le Roy Edward xxiiie dengleterre.'

ff. 46v-70r: Household ordinances of Edward II (c. 1318-1320), incipit: 'Pour ceo qi lez offices del lostiell.'

f. 70r: Added text on the celebration of Maundy Thursday at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, entitled: 'lordre de la Maundye fait al Grenewiche le 19 jour du Mars l'an du reigne del roigne Elizabeth 15 et del incarnation de Jhesu Christe 1572', signed "W[illiam] L[ambarde], 20 Martii, 1572', incipit: 'First the hall was prepared.'

ff. 70v-105v: Treaty of Brétigny-Calais between Edward III and John II of France, 8 May, 1360 with ratifications on behalf of the King of England, incipit: ‘Edward par la grace de dieu Roy dengleterre, s. dirlande et dacquitaigne a ceulx qui', explicit (rubric): 'Explicit tractatus pacis inter Reges et regna Anglie et Francie ex parte regis Anglie.'

ff. 105v-108r: Treaty of Belleville, 1366, for the delivery of John, Duke of Berry and Pierre de Valois, Count of Alençon, rubric: ‘Sequitur tractatus de Belleville et de liberatione ducis de Berry et Comitis dalencon', incipit: 'Edward, etc. A toutz ceulx qui cez lettrez veront.'

ff. 108r-108v: Form of commission for disputes about Ponthieu, 1367, rubric: 'De Pontino Guynes Calesio et aliis terris', incipit: 'Edwardus etc. A toutz ceulx etc. Comme par la cause.'

ff. 109r-113v: Edward III's grant of Aquitaine to Edward, Prince of Wales (the Black Prince), Westminster, 19 July, 1362, rubric (f. 108v): 'Donacio principatus Acquietanie facta per Regem Anglie predictum Edwardo principi filio suo post predictam pacem inter Reges predictos ut premittitur factam', incipit: 'Edwardus etc carissimo primogenito nostro Edwardo principi Wallie.'; explicit (rubric): 'Expliciunt tractatus de pace Francie et Anglie ex parte Regis Anglie et donacio principatus aquitanie.'

ff. 114r-137r: Treaty of Brétigny-Calais between Edward III and John II of France, 8 May, 1360, with ratifications on behalf of the King of France, rubric (f. 113v): 'Sequitur tractatus Cartonensis (sic for Carnotensis) ex parte Regis Francie Johannis', incipit: 'Johan par la grace de dieu Roi de France A Toutz ceux qi cestez lettrez veront salutz', explicit (rubric): 'Explicit tractatus pacis ex parte Regis Francie.'

ff. 137r-139r: King John II's ratification of the treaty of Brétigny-Calais made in London, November 1362 and Villeneuve, 15 March 1362/3, followed by the oath of the four Dukes (Philip of Orleans, Louis of Anjou, John of Berry, and Louis of Bourbon) at their release, rubric: 'Quidam tractatus de quatuor ducibus francie obsidibus', incipit: 'Johan par la grace de dieu Roy de France a toutz ceux etc.'

ff. 139v-144v: Treatises between Castile and England relating to Gascony signed in Toledo, 22 April 1292 and on 1 and 8 February and 1 March 1363, rubric (f. 139r): 'Quedam relaxacio facta per Regem Ispanie Regi Anglie de Vasconia', incipit: 'Noverint universis presentes litteras inspecturis'; explicit (rubric): 'Explicit de Ispania.'

ff. 144v-148r: Treaty of Berwick, 3 October 1357, rubric: 'De treugis Scocie captis anno domini millesimo ccclvii apud Berewicum super Twedam', incipit: 'Ceste endenture faite a Berrewik'; explicit (rubric): 'Explicit tractatus treugarum Scotie.'

ff. 148v-163v: Coronation order of the King and Queen of France and a collection of oaths of allegiance, indirectly related to the Coronation Book of Charles V of France (Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII, ff. 35r-80v), for the edition see Jackson, Ordines (2000) (as manuscript 'D'), for a revised stemma of related manuscripts see Fronska, Livre du Sacre (2013), including:

A French translation of the directory of the royal coronation, known as the 'Ordo of Reims' (ff. 148v-150r); rubric: 'Cest lordenance a enoindre et a coronner le roy', incipit: 'Premierement len doit'.
A Latin text of the king's coronation oaths (ff. 150r-150v); title: 'requisicio episcoporum regni francie facienda Regi in sua coronacione', incipit: 'A vobis perdonari'.
A list of the old and new peers of France in French (f. 150v), incipit: 'Ou temps ancien'.
A Latin text of the coronation ordo of the King and Queen of France, known as the ‘Ordo of Charles V’ (ff. 150v-160v), title: 'Ordo ad inungendum et coronandum Regem', incipit: 'Primo paratur solium’.
Blessing of the standard (ff. 160v), title: 'Sequitur benedictio vexilli', incipit: 'Inclina domine'.
A Litany (ff. 160v-161v).
A series of the oaths of the peers of France, knight guardian of the Oriflame, barons of Guyenne, knights returning into the king’s service, officers of the royal mint, heralds and captains (161v-163v), title: 'Cest le serement des pers de france', incipit: 'Vous iurez par vostre foy'.

ff. 164r-165v: List of the royal tombs and relics in the abbey church of St Denis (for the edition see Vidier, ‘Inventaire’, 1901), incipit: 'In ecclesia cenobii beati Dionisii.'

ff. 166v-167v: Added William Lambarde, Notes on the Charter of the Forest, entitled: 'Certeine notes out of a lecture upon the charter of the Forest' and on the word 'Swanymote' / 'Swanimote' / 'Sþanȝemote' (an assembly to held every three years in accordance with the Charter of the Forest) (f. 167v).

ff. 168v-170v: Added (early 16th century) articles on swan motes, entitled: 'Omnis Articulorum Foreste super Swan. tenendum per sacramentum', incipit: 'First fires ye thatt do us to wete.'

A similar selection of documents as on ff. 13r-148r is also included in Royal MS 20 D X, Cotton MS Nero D VI, Cotton MS Vitellius C IV, and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. lat. 6049.

Decoration:

ff. 2-12v: Space left for initials.

ff. 13r-165v: 2 historiated initials in colours and gold with full borders (ff. 13r, 34r). Foliate initials in colours and gold with marginal extensions forming partial borders (ff. 26r, 27r, 38r, 42v, 148v, 150v). Initials in gold with black pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing.

Possibly illuminated by the same artist as Yates Thompson MS 48.

Subjects of the initials are:

f. 13r: Initial 'D'(ecedente) of a king (Processus).

f. 34r: Initial 'E'(n) of a duel before a king ('Modus faciendi duellum').

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002025834
040-002025835

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Add MS 32097-32116 : Towneley Manuscripts

Add MS 32097 : Collection of ceremonials, ordinances, and treatises

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Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1445

End Date:

1573

Date Range:

c 1450-1573

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 290 x 205 mm (text space: 175 x 110 mm).

Foliation: ff. 170 (+ 7 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves: 4 at the beginning and 3 at the end; + 3 unfoliated parchment leaves after f. 12 and 1 after f. 167; 1 unfoliated modern paper interleaf after f. 1).

Old pagination corresponding to William Lambarde's table of contents on f. 1r: pp. 1-329 (ff. 1r-165r). The item on ff. 166v-167v is listed in the table of contents, but is neither assigned page numbers there nor paginated. The item on ff. 168v-170v is neither listed on the table of contents nor paginated.

Leaf signatures (traces): ff. 69r-72r, 103r-104r, 111r-112r.

Collation: i⁶ (ff. 1-6; ff. 1 and 2 are likely singletons; f. 1 is of smaller size and is followed by an added paper interleaf); ii⁸⁺¹(ff. 7-[12***], f. 7 is a singleton; includes 3 unfoliated leaves after f. 12); iii-xxi⁸(ff. 13-164); xxii-xxiii⁴(ff. 165-170, includes 1 unfoliated leaf after f. 167).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Dark red leather binding, 19th century.

Custodial History:

Origin: England (probably London).

Provenance:

Richard Atkyns, reader at Lincoln’s Inn, London, during the reign of Elizabeth I, and chief justice of North Wales, father of Sir Edward Atkyns (b. 1587, d. 1669), judge and baron of the Exchequer (see Edward Foss, Biographia juridica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England from the Conquest to the Present Time, 1066-1870 (London: John Murray, 1870), p. 24), given by him to William Lambarde in 1571.

William Lambarde (b. 1536, d. 1601), antiquary and lawyer, Deputy Keeper of the Rolls in 1597, his ownership inscription: 'Guilielmi Lambard, ex dono Richardi Atkyns Lincolniensis 1571'; table of contents (f. 1r), notes and added texts in his hand (ff. 70r, 166v-167v).

John Anstis (b. 1669, d. 1744), herald and antiquary: his sale, 1786, lot 314: a cutting from his printed sale catalogue with a handwritten inscription: ‘Anstis catalogue / lot 314 – 1768’, pasted on f. [iii] recto.

Inscribed 'E[dwar]di Umfreville' (f. 2r), perhaps for Edward Umfreville (bapt. 1702?, d. 1786), collector of legal manuscripts. William Fellingham: his sale, 1805, lot 580, a cutting from this catalogue pasted on f. [iii] recto.

The Towneley Library, Towneley Hall, Lancashire, founded by the antiquary Christopher Towneley (b. 1604, d. 1674), included in the sale, see Catalogue of the Towneley Library removed from Townley Hall, Lancashire (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 1883), no. 184.

Purchased by the British Museum at Sotheby's, London, at Towneley sale, 27-28 June 1883, lot 184 (handwritten inscription on f. [ii]r ‘This MS was evidently purchased at Sotheby’s, Towneley sale, 27-28 June 1883, lot 184’).

Administrative Context:

England (probably London).

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCLXXXII-MDCCCLXXXVI (London: Longmans, 1889), pp. 73-75.

Alexandre Vidier, ‘Inventaire des reliques et liste des sépultures de rois de France qui se trouvaient dans l'Annaye de saint-Denis au xiv^e siècle’, Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Ile de France (1901), 145-48 [edition of ff. 164r-165v].

Thomas Frederick Tout, The Place of the Reign of Edward II in English History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1936), p. 268.

William Lambarde's Notes on the Procedures and Privileges of the House of Commons (1584), ed. by Paul L. Ward (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1977), p. 45.

Nicholas Pronay and John Taylor, Parliamentary texts of the later Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), pp. 25, 54, 120 (as ‘M’).

Rowena E. Archer, 'Parliamentary Restoration: John Mowbray and the Dukedom of Norfolk in 1425', Rulers and Ruled in Late Medieval England. Essays Presented to Gerald Harriss, ed. by Rowena E. Archer and Simon Walker (London: Hambledon Press, 1995), pp. 103-16 (p. 104).

Kathleen L. Scott, Later Gothic Manuscripts 1390-1490, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 6, 2 vols (London: Harvey Miller, 1996), I, p. 75, n. 50; II, p. 291.

Richard A. Jackson, Ordines Coronationis Franciae: Texts and Ordines for the Coronation of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages, 2 vols (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), II, pp. 454-63 [edition of the text of ff. 148v-161v, as 'D'].

Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), p. 352.

Joanna Frońska, 'The Livre du Sacre of Charles V of France: A Story of the Book', in 1000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts, ed. by Kathleen Doyle and Scot McKendrick (London: British Library, 2013), pp. 113-30 (pp. 122, 125, 127, 129).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Anstis, John, the elder, herald and antiquary, 1669-1774
Atkyns, Richard, of Lincoln
Lambarde, William, antiquary and lawyer, 1536-1601,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000008153571X
Umfreville, Edward, of Add MS 32097

Places:

Gascony, France

Related Material:

Extract fom the Catalogue of Additions (1889): 'CORONATION ceremonials of England and France, with copies of treaties and other historical matter relating to England, Scotland, France, and Spain. The first two articles are later additions in different hands.

1. "Articula tabule rotunde." f. I b.

2. The "Secreta secretorum," attributed to Aristotle. f. 2.

3. "Processus factus ad coronacionem regis Ricardi secundi with the offices of Steward, Constable, and Marshal, claims for services, etc. f. 13.

4. "Modus tenendi parliamentum." f. 2 1.

5. "Cronica bona et compendiosa de regibus Anglie tantum a Noe vsque in hunc diem" [1377] ; beg. "Noe fuerunt tres filii." f. 26.

6. "Modus faciendi duellum coram rege," beg. "En primes les quellez et billez." f. 34.

7. "Cez sount lez vsagez qi Thomas de Brotherton [Earl of Norfolk, 1312, and Earl Marshal, 1315] filz au roy [Edw. I.], clamoit a vser per loffice mareschalcie"; preceded by a grant of the office of Earl Marshal to Thomas [Mowbray], Earl of Nottingham, 12 Jan. 9 Rich. II. [1386]. f. 38.

8. "Ceux sount lez estatutz ordenancez et custumez a tenir en lost ordenez et faitz par bone auisement et deliberacion de nostre tresexcellent souerain seignour le Roi Richard et John, Duk di Lancastre, seneschal dengleterre," etc.: ordinances for the army in the expedition to Scotland, dated at Durham, 17 July, 9 Rich. II. [1385]; with a list of commanders, etc. f. 42.

9. Account of the campaign of Edward I. in Scotland in 1296. Fr. f. 45.

10. Ordinances for the household of Edward II.; [circ. 1318-20]. Fr. f. 46 b.

11. "Tractatus pacis inter reges et regna Anglie et Francie ex parte regis Anglie"; the treaty of Bretigny, 8 May, 1360; with ratifications, etc., at Calais, 14, 24, 26, 29 Oct. Fr. f. 70 b.

12. "Tractatus de Belleville et deliberacione ducis de Berry et Comitis dalenceoun [d'Alenon];" Westmlnster, 1 Feb. 1366[7]. Fr. f. 105 b.

13. "De Pontino [Ponthieu] Guynes Calesiis et aliis terris": mandate from Edw. III. to his commissioners to meet those of France at Montreuil; [1367]. Fr. f. 108.

14. "Donacio principatus Acquietanie facta per regem Anglie predictum Edwardo principi filio suo," etc., with other royal letters on the subject; Westminster, 19 July, 1362. Lat. and Fr. f. 108 b.

15. "Tractatus Carton [Carnotensis ?] ex parte re-is Francie Johannis": the treaty of Bretigny, 1360; with ratifications, etc., at Calais, 24 Oct. Fr. (Cf. art. 11 above). f. 113 b.

16. "Quidam tractatus de quatuor ducibus [sc. Orleans, Anjou, Berry, and Bourbon] obsidibus"; Villeneuve, 15 Mar. 1362[3]. Fr. f. 137.

17. "Quedam relaxacio facta per regem Ispanie regi Anglie de Vasconia"; Toledo, 22 Apr. 1292. Followed by treaties of alliance, etc. between England and Castille, 1, 8 Feb., 1 Mar. 1362[3]. Lat. f. 139.

18. "De treugis Scocie captis [3 Oct.] anno domini millesimo ccclvii' apud Berewicum super Twedam." Fr. f. 144 b.

19. "Cest lordinance a enoindre et coronner le Roy en France"-"Cest lordinaunce comment la Royne doit estre enointe et couronnee Ordo ad inundendum [sc. inunguenduin] et coronandum Regem Consecratio Regis"-"Ordo ad Reginam benedicendam," etc. With the colophon "Explicit ordo et officium in consecratione Regis et Regine " [Franciæ]. f. 148 b.

20. "Benedictio vexilli": the blessing of the oriflamme, followed by the oaths "des pers de France," of the "chevalier a qui le Roy baillie a porter loriflame," of the "chevaliers et aultrez qui viennent de nouuiel en son obeissance," and of others. f. 160 b.

21. List of saints and kings buried in the church of St. Denis, and of relies preserved in the same. Lat. f. 164. On f. 70 is inserted "lordre de la Maundye fait al Grenewiche le 19 jour du Mars l'an.........1572[3]" signed "W[illiam] L[ambarde], 20 Martii, 1572"; and at the end (f. 166 b), in the hand of William Lambarde, are "certeine notes out of a lecture vpon the charter of the Forest," followed (f. 168 b) by articles concerning swan motes, etc. Vellum; ff. l70. XVth cent. With illuminated borders and initials beggining at f. 13, the initia1 of which contains a portrait of Rich. II. On f. 2 is inseribed "Guilielmi Lambardi, ex dono Richardi Atkyns, Lincolniensis, I57l"; and also the name "Edwardi Unifireville." Folio.'