Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??

Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

Arundel MS 149

Record Id:

040-002039432

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002039280

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x0002a5

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Arundel MS 149

Title:

Coronation orders

Scope & Content:

The manuscript includes:

ff. 1r-5v: Coronation order of the Emperor and the King of the Romans, imperfect at the beginning, incipit (rubric): 'Tunc Rex cum episcopis et archiepiscopis principibus et magnatibus suis astendens ad summum pontificem reverenter osculetur pedes ipsius'; explicit: 'consuetudines suas, sic me Deus adjuvet et hec sancta Dei evangelia.'

ff. 5v-7v: Order of the metropolitan council: incipit (rubric): 'Ordo Romanus qualiter consilium agatur. Conveniente universo cetu'; explicit: 'pacifice redeant in domos suas.'

ff. 7v-8v: Order of the reconciliation of penitents, use of Rome, incipit (rubric): 'Ordo ad dandam penitentiam quum peccata sua vult aliquis confiteri secundum usum romanum', incipit: 'Domine deus omnipotens qui non vis mortem peccatorum'; imperfect at the end, explicit: 'te absolvat ab omnibus peccatis tuis per dominum.'

ff. 9r-20v: Coronation order of the King and Queen of England, of the fourth recension (a conflation of the 1308 and 1327 forms, according to Brückmann, see Hughes, 'Origins and Descent', 1990), imperfect at the beginning, incipit: 'firmatus Moysi'; explicit: 'de officio pincernarie serviet comes de Arundelle.'

ff. 20v-22v: Order of the coronation of the Queen alone, incipit: 'De quo sola regina coronanda est conveniant in palatio regali', explicit: 'prefati duo Episcopi, unus a dextris, alius a sinistris reducent.'

ff. 23r-30v: Added by a different scribe after 1484: Order of the coronation of the King of France, known as the Last Capetian Ordo, preceded (f. 23r) by extracts from the Ordo of Charles VIII in Latin (see Jackson, Ordines, 2000, 'Ordo XXV, nos. 23-30, 83-84'); extracts, incipit: 'Die Sabbati ad vesperas dum Rex', explicit: 'Oratio Deus qui salutis eterne etc.'; ; ordo incipit: 'Incipit ordo consecrandum et coronandum Regem francie'; explicit: 'et eam restituere in loco suo.'

ff. 29v-30v: Order of the coronation of the Queen of France, incipit: 'Ordo ad reginam benedicendam'; explicit: 'quod ipse preestare digretur qui vivit et regnat.'

f. 30v: List of the peers of France, rubric: 'Nomina xii parium francie.'

Decoration:

Three-sided foliate borders and large foliate initials, in colours and gold (ff. 1r, 5v, 7v, 15r, 17v, 20v). 2 large foliate initials, in colours and gold, with foliate extensions into the margins (ff. 23r, 29v). Small initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Line-fillers in gold and blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Arundel Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002039280
040-002039432

Is part of:

Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts

Arundel MS 149 : Coronation orders

Hierarchy:

032-002039280[0150]/040-002039432

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:

1484

End Date:

1484

Date Range:

c 1450-after 1484

Era:

Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:

Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 315 x 215 mm (text space: 220 x 140 mm).

Foliation: ff. 30 (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 2 at the end); two sets of late medieval foliation in brown ink and in gray ink (top right corner) run from '57' to '64' (ff. 1-8), and from [192] to '205' (ff. 9-22), suggesting a loss of 57 leaves at the beginning and 128 after f. 8; last quire (ff. 23-30) without original foliation.

Collation: i⁸ (ff. 1-8), ii¹(last leaf of a missing quire, f. 9), iii⁸ (ff. 10-17), iv⁴⁺¹ (ff. 18-22; 5th leaf inserted, f. 22), v⁸ (ff. 23-30).

Layout: Written in two columns of 36 lines; ff. 1r-22v: rulling in purple ink; ff. 23r-30v: ruling in gray ink.

Script: Written by two scribes: ff. 1r-22v: Gothic hybrid, with musical notation on 4-line red staves; ff. 23r-30v: Gothic with humanistic influence.

Binding: British Museum/British Library binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: England (London).

Provenance:

? 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. 1r).

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

Administrative Context:

England (London).

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 39.

Andrew Hughes, 'The Origins and Descent of the Fourth Recension of the English Coronation', in Coronations: Medieval and Early Modern Monarchic Ritual, ed. by János M. Bak (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), pp. 197-216 (pp. 200-213 as 'j').

Ordines Coronationis Franciae. Texts and Ordines for the Coronation of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages, ed. by Richard A. Jackson, 2 vols (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), II, pp. 374 [edition of the text as 'H'], 557 [edition of the text as 'A'].

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Howard, Henry, 6th Duke of Norfolk, 1628-1684
Royal Society, 1660-

Related Material:

Extract from the Catalogue of Manuscripts (1834-1840): 'Membranaceus, in folio, ff. 30, sec. xv., mutilus.

1. De cæremoniis in Coronatione Imperatorum et Regum Romanorum solennibus fragmentum. fol. 1. Incip. "Tunc Rex cum episcopis." Desin. "consuetudines suas, sic me Deus adjuvet et hec sancta Dei evangelia." 2. "Ordo Romanus qualiter consilium [scilicet ecclesiasticum] agatur." fol. 5. b. Incip. "Convenisnte universo cetu." Desin. "pacifice redeant in domos suas." 3. "Ordo ad dandam pœnitentiam quum peccata sua vult aliquis confiteri secundum usum Romanum." [mutil. ad finem.] fol. 7. b. Incip. "Prinlo sacerdos dicat apud se hanc." 4. Ordo coronationis Regis et Reginæ Angliæ. [mutil. ab initio.] fol. 9. Incip. per verba "firmatus Moysi." Desin. "de officio pineernaric serviet Comes de Arundelle." 5. Ordo quando sola Regina coronanda est. fol. 20. b. Incip. "Conveniant in palatio regali." Desinit abrupte " præfati duo Episcopi, unus a dextris, alius a sinistris reducent." 6. Ordo coronationis Regis Franciæ. fol. 23. Incip. "Die Sabbati ad vesperas dum Rex." Desin. "et eam restituere in loco suo." 7. Ordo coronationis Reginæ Frenciæ. fol. 29. b. Incip. "Ordo ad Reginam benedicendam." Desin. "quod ipse preestare digretur qui vivit et regnat etc.'