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Lansdowne MS 436

Record Id:

040-002075167

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002075167

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001257.0x0001e9

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Lansdowne MS 436

Title:

Chronicle and British saints’ lives

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Lansdowne Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002060013
040-002075167

Is part of:

Lansdowne MS 1-1245 : Lansdowne Manuscripts

Lansdowne MS 436 : Chronicle and British saints’ lives

Contains:

Lansdowne MS 436, ff 2-5 : Chronicle of English kings and kingdoms
Lansdowne MS 436, ff 6-131 : The ‘Romsey Legendary’

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Hierarchy:

032-002060013[0301]/040-002075167

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Lansdowne MS 1-1245

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 335 × 215 mm (written area 225 × 145 mm, in two columns).

Foliation: ff. 131 ( + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end). Medieval foliation, ‘3’–‘127’ (ff. 6–131, skipping f. 23).

Collation: i^one (f. 1); ii⁴ (ff. 2–5); iii⁶ (ff. 6–11), iv–xviii⁸ (ff. 12–131).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: British Museum. Marbled endpapers.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

The Benedictine nunnery of Sts Mary and Elfleda, Romsey, Hampshire: 14th-century inscription, ‘Romesey’, which also annotates the life of Elfleda (ff. 43v–45v), which mentions the abbey (f. 43v); late 15th-century inscription ‘Iste liber est de librario \ecclesie/ sancte Marie et sancte Etheflede uirginis. de Romesey’ (f. 1r).

Initials ‘E.B.’ with the motto ‘Heb Dhun, heb dhim’.

Initials ‘JP’ with the number 54 (f. 1r).

‘KKf’ replaced with ‘LLf’, referring to the price? (f. 1r). Other inscriptions and scribbles.

Sir James Ware (b. 1594, d. 1666), antiquary and historian.

William Petty (formerly Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd earl of Shelburne and 1st marquess of Lansdowne, prime minister; purchased by the British Museum together with 1244 other Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Henry Ellis and Francis Douce (London: Taylor, 1820), no. 436.

C. H. Talbot, ‘A List of Cistercian Manuscripts in Great Britain’, Traditio, 8 (1952), 402–18 (p. 412), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0362152900011740.

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: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 164.

David N. Bell, What Nuns Read: Books and Libraries in Medieval English Nunneries, Cistercian Studies Series, 158 (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian, 1995), p. 161.

M.J. Wright, ‘BL MS Lansdowne 436 Contains Two Separate Items’, Notes and Queries, 59.1 (2012), 25–28, https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjr283.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Material:

From A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Henry Ellis and Francis Douce (London: Taylor, 1820), no. 436:

Codex membranaceus, sæc. xiv. pulchrè exaratus.

1. Breve chronicon Regum Saxonicorum ab Hengisto ad Egbertum. Inc. "Insula ista que nunc An. glia dicitur"; cujus priora 2 folia mutila. fo. 2.

2. Vitæ Sanctorum Angliæ quorum nomina, ex ordine literarum, hic recensentur: Aidanus. fo. 19 b. "Gloriosus rex Oswaldus." Alfleda. fo. 43 b. "Regnante illustri ac." Alphegus, Cant. Archiep. fo. 50 b. "Principium." Alphegus, Winton. Episc. fo. 113. "B^o. Brinstano." Athelwoldus. fo. 81. "Temporibus regis Edwardi." Augustinus. fo. 6, 9. Imperf. at beg. Birinus. fo. 30. "Rome ex liberiore." Brinstanus. fo. 11, 16. "Vir venerabilis Brinstanus." Ced. fo. 114. "De eximie sanctitatis viro." Cedda. fo. 21 b. "Temporibus Oscuti Northam." Cuthburga. fo. 38 b. "Anno ab incam." Dunstanus. fo. 59 b. "Beatus Dunstanus ex nobil." Ebba. fo. 109. "Virgo gloriosa ven. Ebba. " Edburga. fo. 41 b. "In initate Wyntoniensi." Edwardus Martyr. fo. 45 b. "Inditus rex Edw." Erkenwaldus. fo. 36 b. "Beatus Augstinus Anof." Ethelburga. fo. 36. "Habuit autem b. virgo." Etheldrida. fo. 34 b. "Vitam S. Etheldridge." Fredeswida. fo. 101. "Tempore illo quo Anglia." Frethemundus. fo. 32. "Temporibus regum ant." Godricus. fo. 121 b. "Sanctus Godricus in Norfolca." Hilda. fo. 105 b. "Regali ex progeinie." Hugo. fo. 68. "Sancte reconciliacionis." Johannes de Beverlaco. fo. 98 b. "B. Jones dictus." Kenelmus. fo. 88. "De b. Kenelmo in tota." Laurentius. fo. 9 b. "Gloriosus Christi confesso." Mellitus. fo. 11 b. "Postquam adinnante Deo." Merwinna. fo. 43 b. "Regnante illustri ac." Milburga. fo. 72 b. "Beata virgo Milburga." Modewennna fo. 126 b. "Beata Modwenna virgo." Odo. fo. 86. "Exillustri prospia." Ositha. fo. 29. "Ista beata uirgo." Oswaldus. Ebor. Arch. fo. 76. "Gloriosus Xpicost." Oswaldus Rex. fo. 16 b. "Post mortem gloriosi." Paulinus. fo. 14. "Postquam rex deustissimus." Robertus. fo. 116. "Beatus Robertus ex procinia Ebor." Rumoldus. fo. 104. "Mirabilis Deus in sanctis suis. " Sexburga. fo. 36. "Aliam autem sororesu." Swithinus. fo. 91. "Glorioso reg Annglorum." Ulfadus et Rufus. fo. 23 b. "Gloriosi martines Wilfadus." Ulfinus. fo. 48 b. "Clara Domini lucerna." Ulfricus. fo. 131 b. "Beatus Wifricus de mediocre." Imperf. at end. Wenefrida. fo. 107. "Quia virgo S. Wenefreda. " Werburga. fo. 27. "In orbe cestra." Wilfridus. fo. 95. "Anno ab inc. verbi Dei sexoertisimo tricesimo quarto." Witburga. fo. 36. "At illud etiam monasterium." Wulstanus, fo. 55 b. "Temporibus S. Edwardi." Hoc opus tam initio quam fine rtuncatum. Liber olim pertinebat ecclesiæ Sanctæ Mariæ et Sanctæ Ethelfridæ Virginis de Romesey.