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Arundel MS 69

Record Id:

040-002039349

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002039280

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x000243

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Arundel MS 69

Title:

Roger of Hoveden, Chronica

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r–265v: Roger of Hoveden, Chronica, ‘Incipiunt Cronica magistri Rogeri de Houedene. Incipit hystoria saxonum uel anglorum post obitum Bede. In exordio huius operis Genealogiam regum … collectorum ibidem habeantur. Valete.’ Includes a prophecy in English.

Decoration:

2 large puzzle initials in red and green (ff. 1r, 159r). Large simple initials in red or green, a few with pen-flourishing in the other colour, until f. 159r, at which point most initials are flourished in red, green, or blue. From f. 212v including initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, and in red with blue pen-flourishing, and red or blue paraph marks. 1 diagram (f. 118r). Paraphs in red or green. Guide letters.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Arundel Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002039280
040-002039349

Is part of:

Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts

Arundel MS 69 : Roger of Hoveden, Chronica

Hierarchy:

032-002039280[0069]/040-002039349

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1230

End Date:

1270

Date Range:

Mid 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 340 × 230 mm (245 × 150 mm) in two columns.

Foliation: ff. 265 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and end).

Collation: i¹²⁺¹ (ff. 1–13; 10th added), ii¹²⁺¹ (ff. 14–26; 4th added), iii¹² (ff. 27–38), iv¹²⁺² (ff. 39–52; 1st, 13th added), v¹⁰⁺¹ (ff. 53–63; 1st leaf a slip sewn onto 2nd), vi–xii¹² (ff. 64–147), xiii^12–1 (ff. 148–158, 12th cancelled); xiv–xvii¹² (ff. 159–206), xviii¹²⁺¹ (ff. 207–219; 5th added), xix–xxi¹² (ff. 220–255), xxii¹⁰ (ff. 256–265). Many quires have a catchword at the bottom right of the last page, written either in the text hand or in plummet. The added leaves are smaller in size and are later additions to the text. The manuscript was likely conceived as two volumes, the second beginning at f. 159, which includes a more decorated initial, while the preceding quire ends with a blank page before the excised leaf.

Script: Gothic, written below top line.

Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1962.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

The Cistercian abbey of St Mary and St Edward, Netley, Hampshire. Inscription, 15th century, ‘Codex iste pertinet ad Domum sancte [Marie de Netteley]’, last three words erased (fol. 265v).

? 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. 1; its book-plate, inside upper cover, with the pencil inscription 'XV 3.13').

Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 22, 133.

David N. Bell, An Index of Authors and Works in Cistercian Libraries in Great Britain, Cistercian Studies Series, 130 (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1992), p. 131.

Margaret Laing, Catalogue of Sources for a Linguistic Atlas of Early Medieval English (Cambridge: Brewer, 1993), p. 66 [with additional bibligraphy].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Henricus, Archidiaconus Huntingdoniensis, fl 1150
Hoveden, Roger

Related Material:

From Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part I: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 15:

‘Codex membranaceus, in folio, ff. 264, sec. xiii. "Cronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene"; in margine nonnulla habentur ex Henrico Huntindoniensi excerpta.

Roger de Hoveden: Annales Magistri R. de Hovedene, eum excerptis quibusdam ex Henrico Huntindoniensi.: Sec. xiii.

Henricus, Archidiaconus Huntingdoniensis, floruit anno 1150: Excerpta quaedam ex Historia Anglorum; in margine chronicorum Rogeri de Hovenden.: Sec. xiii.’