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Arundel MS 48
- Record Id:
- 040-002039328
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x00022e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165153715.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 48
- Title:
- Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 2r–174r: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum.
Decoration:
1 bas-de-page drawing (f. 168v). Large initials in red, green and/or blue with penwork decoration or pen-flourishing in green (and red) or red (and green) (ff. 2r, 3r, 4r, 20v, 34v, 53v, 84v, 101r, 143v). Smaller and small initials in plain red or green, some with penwork decoration or pen-flourishing in green or red.
Sketch of a human figure (recto of first medieval parchment flyleaf). Sketches of heraldic arms (f. 144).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039328 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 48 : Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0048]/040-002039328
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165153715.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1224
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter 12th century-1st quarter 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 250 × 160 mm (written area 190 × 105 mm).
Foliation: ff. 174 (f. 1 is a medieval parchment flyleaf; + 2 unfoliated modern paper and 1 medieval parchment flyleaves at the beginning, and 3 modern paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: British Museum in-house.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
The Augustinian priory of St Mary the Virgin, Southwick, Hampshire (Webber and Watson, Libraries, 1998, A31.1): its ownership inscriptions from the 13th century spanning openings (ff. 2v–3r, 10v, 58v–59r, 67r, 69v, 84v–85r, 161r), e.g. ‘Hic liber est ecclesie Sancte Marie de Suwica quem qui ab ea alienare seu titulum istum dolose delere presumpserit, nisi ei condigne satisfecerit sit anathema Maranatha. Amen’ (ff. 2v–3r) and ‘Hic liber est ecclesie Sancte Marie de Suwica. quem qui ab ei abstulerit vel titulum hunc […]’ (f. 84v); seen at Southwick by John Leland c. 1533, who borrowed the manuscript and made notes in it (Carley, Libraries, 2000, p. xliv).
Inscribed '95' (1st parchment flyleaf).
Lord William Howard, 1589 (b. 1563, d. 1640), antiquary and landowner, the younger son of Thomas Howard (b. 1538, d. 1572), 4th duke of Norfolk: inscribed 'Toto sed non Taleo: Aug. William Howard' (f. 2), 'William Howarde 1589' (f. 3), and rampant lion (f. 2v); bequeathed to his nephew, Thomas Howard.
Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2; its book-plate with the pencil inscription: ‘XIII.1.9’, inside upper cover). Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Administrative Context:
- England
- Information About Copies:
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Select digital coverage available for this manuscript: see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834–40), I, part 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 10.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd ed., Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 181.
Antonia Gransden, Historical Writing in England c. 550 to c. 1307 (London: Routlege and Kegan Paul, 1974), pp. 195 n. 79, 364 n. 59.
Suzanne Lewis, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1987), pp. 37, 479 n. 128, fig. 15.
Henry, Archdeacon of Huntingdon: Historia Anglorum, The History of the English People, ed. and trans. by Diana Greenway (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), p. cxix (cited as 'A').
Teresa Webber and Andrew G. Watson, The Libraries of the Augustinian Canons, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 6 (London: British Library, 1998), A31.1.
James P. Carley, The Libraries of King Henry VIII, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: British Library, 2000), p. xliv.
Michelle P. Brown, 'Marvels of the West: Giraldus Cambrensis and the Role of the Author in the Development of Marginal Illustration', in Decoration and Illustration in Medieval English Manuscripts, English Manuscript Studies 1100–1700, 10 (London: British Library, 2002), pp. 34-59 (pp. 50-51 pl. 7).
- Exhibitions:
- Battles and Dynasties, The Collection, Lincoln, 27 May 2017 - 3 September 2017
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)