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- Record Id:
- 040-002088769
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002088757
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001490.0x000132
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165148740.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 35294
- Title:
- Wardrobe account of Eleanor of Castile
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the wardrobe account, or Liber Garderobe, of Eleanor of Castile, (b. c. 1240, d. 1290), Queen consort to King Edward I (r. 1272-1307).
The account was compiled by Queen Eleanor's treasurer, John of Berewyk (fl. 1279-1312), and records a set of her receipts and expenses from the final year of her life. Originally, it was intended to run from the Feast of Michaelmas [29 September] 1289 to the Feast of St Edmund [20 November] 1290 (as detailed on f. 3r), but the account instead continues until 30 December 1290. The receipts the Queen received over this period amounted to £1,001 10s 1/2d, while her expenses totalled £1,009 12s. 9 1/4d. The account records Queen Eleanor’s death in a marginal note (‘decessus regine’, f. 15v), and ends with an additional summary of expenses and arrangements related to her death and subsequent funeral, accrued between November and December 1290 (f. 15v).
Among Queen Eleanor's expenses, we find a wide range of payments for the maintenance of her household, her horses and marshalsea (a sub-department under the jurisdiction of the keeper of the wardrobe), her jewels, her food and provisioning, as well as payments to her messengers and other servants, together with her almsgiving. In addition to the receipts and expenses of the Queen's household, the volume also contains two memoranda relating to the delivery of several of her goods (ff. 2v, 17r).
For an edition of the account based on this manuscript, see Parsons, The Court and Household of Eleanor of Castile (1977).
Contents:
f. 1v: A paper cutting from a modern sale catalogue (Puttick and Simpson’s, 23 June 1848), listing the manuscript as lot 215, with an accompanying description of the volume.
f. 2r: The title of the account, ‘Liber domini Johannis de Berewyk de expensis in Garderoba Regine anno regni Regis E[dwardi] xviijo’, followed by the name of its compiler ‘Berewyck’, Queen Eleanor’s treasurer.
f. 2v: A memorandum concerning the delivery of goods from the Queen’s wardrobe.
f. 3r: A list of the Queen’s receipts, accrued between October 1289 and October 1290.
ff. 4r-16r: A list of the Queen’s expenses accrued between September 1289 and December 1290, organized by calendar month, with marginal notes relating to different entries.
f. 17r: A memorandum concerning the delivery of goods from the Queen’s wardrobe.
f. 17v: A second title for the account, ‘Liber expensarum in garderoba regine consortis anno decimo octavo, Berewyk’.
ff. 1r, 3v, 14v, 15r and 16v are blank.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002088757
040-002088769 - Is part of:
- Add MS 35283-35298 : Belonged to the collection of MSS. formed by Bertram Ashburnham, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (ob. 1878), being comprised in…
Add MS 35294 : Wardrobe account of Eleanor of Castile - Hierarchy:
- 032-002088757[0012]/040-002088769
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 35283-35298
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165148740.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1289
- End Date:
- 1290
- Date Range:
- [29 Sep 1289-30 Dec 1290]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment and paper (f. 1 only).
Dimensions: 310 x 213 mm (text space: 278 x 190 mm).
Foliation: ff. 17 (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf after f. 1 + 2 unfoliated parchment leaves after f. 2 + 1 unfoliated parchment leaf after f. 16 + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end); f. 1 is a modern paper flyleaf with a paper note affixed to the verso.
Quire signatures (ff. 3v-8r).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Brown half-leather binding; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
An unidentified owner: their sale, Puttick and Simpson's, 23 June 1848, lot 215 (f. 1v), sold to Bertram Ashburnham for £40, together with three other wardrobe accounts of the reign of Edward I (according to annotated copy of the sale catalogue now housed at the Wellcome Collection (EPB/B/179054.2)).
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th Earl of Ashburnham: his bookplate with a date of May 1897 and the shelfmark 'Appendix No CXVIII' (inside front cover); his sale, Sotheby's, 1 May 1899, lot 66: purchased by the British Museum together with Add MSS 35283-35297 for £593 13s. 6d.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of an interesting and important collection of illuminated and other manuscripts ... etc. Which will be sold by auction ... on ... June 23rd, 1848 (London: G. Norman, 1848).
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum, 1901), p. 240.
Thomas Frederick Tout, Chapters in the Administrative History of Mediaeval England: The Wardrobe, the Chamber and the Small Seals, 6 vols (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1920-1923), I, pp. 131, 272, 284, 285.
Hilda Johnstone, Edward of Carnarvon, 1284-1307 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1946), p. 24.
John Carmi Parsons, The Court and Household of Eleanor of Castile in 1290: An Edition of British Library Additional Manuscript 35294 with Introduction and Notes (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1977) [edition].
H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, English Parliament in the Middle Ages (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1981), pp. 196, 536.
Mary C. Hill, The King's Messengers 1199-1377: A List of All Known Messengers, Mounted and Unmounted, Who Served John, Henry III, and the First Three Edwards (Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1994), p. 163.
John Carmi Parsons, Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth-Century England (New York: St Martin's Press, 1995), p. 82.
Martin Biddle, King Arthur's Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2000) p. 362, n. 85.
Loveday Lewea Gee, Women, Art and Patronage from Henry III to Edward III (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002), p. 62.
Kim M. Philips, Medieval Maidens: Young Women and Gender in England, c. 1270-c.1540 (Manchester-New York: Manchester University Press, 2003), p. 64.
Sara Cockerill, Eleanor of Castile: The Shadow Queen (Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2014).
A Companion to the English Dominican Province: From its Beginnings to the Reformation, ed. by Eleanor J. Giraud and J. Cornelia Linde (Leiden: Brill, 2021), p. 49, n. 93.
David Luscombe, 'John Pecham, Jerarchie', in Testimony, Narrative and Image: Studies in Medieval and Franciscan History, Hagiography and Art in memory of Rosalind B. Brooke, ed. by Michael F. Cusato and Michael J. P. Robson (Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. 171, 183.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)