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- Record Id:
- 040-002103375
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002103038
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000141.0x00036e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 47170
- Title:
- Genealogical roll chronicle of the kings of England to Edward I, with continuations to Richard II (the 'Egmont Roll')
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Genealogical roll chronicles with commentary in Anglo-Norman French on the face and in Latin on the dorse.
Face of the roll:
Membranes 1-9: A genealogical diagram of the kings of England from Aethelwulf I (r. 839-856) to Edward I (r. 1272-1307); the section on Aethelwulf on the first membrane is added and probably replaced a diagram of the Heptarchy.
Membranes 9-10: A long commentary on the reign of Edward I was copied by a different scribe and was perhaps added in the reign of Edward II (r. 1307-1327). The texts of the commentaries on Aethelwulf and Edward I, not common in the other rolls, are based on the Petit Bruit by Rauf de Boun, a work composed in c. 1309 that survives in only one manuscript of the late-sixteenth century, Harley MS 902, ff. 1-11.
Membranes 10-11: A second continuation consisting of a genealogical diagram without commentary, from Eleanor of Castille (d. 1290), wife of Edward I, to Richard II (r. 1377-1399).
Membrane 12 : Add pen trials and a colophon of Walter of Wittlesey, monk of Peterborough.
Dorse of the roll (dorse abbreviated as d):
Membrane 1d: A paragraph on the descendants of Sceaf up to Wulfhere.
Membranes 2d-6d: A genealogical diagram of the kings of Mercia and of England from Pybba to Edward the Elder (r. 899-924).
Membranes 6d-7d: A commentary up to the reign of King Stephen, with references to Anglo-Scottish relations (r. 1135-1154).
Membranes 7d-11d: Annals from 1290 to 1372, with a continuation to the death in 1374 of William de Whittlesey, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Decoration:
Medallions in red or brown containing ink drawings of kings and their descendants, some with colour wash, and lines of descent in red or brown. Initials in brown.
The English monarchs and dukes of Normandy are all represented in full figure, some standing (a unique feature of this roll) and others enthroned, holding sceptres or various arms of the period; the remaining royal descendants are represented by heads or busts.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002103038
036-002103374
040-002103375 - Is part of:
- Add MS 46920-47213 : EGMONT PAPERS
Add MS 47170-47203 : J. HERALDIC AND GENEALOGICAL MSS.
Add MS 47170 : Genealogical roll chronicle of the kings of England to Edward I, with continuations to Richard II (the 'Egmont Roll') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002103038[0010]/036-002103374[0001]/040-002103375
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 46920-47213
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
French
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1374
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter to 3rd quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 6100 mm x 220/50 mm.
Arrangement: 12 unfoliated parchment leaves (membranes) joined together end-to-end. A rectangle of leather and cloth with a tie is attached to membrane 1, forming a wrapper.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, E. (Peterborough).
Provenance: The Benedictine abbey of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, Peterborough, attributed to Walter of Wittlesey (fl. c. 1321-1329), monk and chronicler of the abbey: a colophon at the lower edge of the face of the roll (membrane 12) in a late fourteenth-century hand states, '[C]ronica rotulata latina et gallice conscripta com regibus Anglie ex utraque parte depicta fratris Walteri de Wittelseye, monachi mon[a]sterii de Burgo Sancti Petri', and the death of William de Whittlesey, Archbishop of Canterbury is recorded in 1374, below the annals (membrane 11d); the genealogy on the dorse begins with seventh-century Mercian kings including Penda, believed to be the founders of the Abbey.
The Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, by descent to Lucy, Countess of Egmont (d. 1932), presented by her trustees to the British Museum in 1950 as volume CCLI (251) of the Egmont papers.
- Publications:
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Cecily Clark, 'The Anglo-Norman Chronicle', in The Peterborough chronicle (the Bodleian manuscript Laud Misc. 636 , ed. by Dorothy Whitelock (Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1954), p. 39-43, 172-80 [edition and facsimile of the Anglo-Norman commentary].
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. 151.
Lucy Freeman Sandler, The Peterborough Psalter in Brussels and other Fenland manuscripts (London: Harvey Miller, 1974), p. 140.
The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1946-1950 (London: British Museum, 1979), pp. 242-43.
W. H. Monroe, 'Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century Illustrated Genealogical Manuscripts in Roll and Codex: Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium, Universal Histories and Chronicles of the Kings of England' (unpublished PhD thesis: University of London, 1989), pp. 537-40.
Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), no. 6.
Diana B. Tyson, 'The Manuscript Tradition of Old French Prose Brut Rolls', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 55 (2001), 107-18 (pp. 107-09, 114-15, 118).
Olivier de Laborderie, 'Ligne de reis: Culture historique, représentation du pouvoir royal et construction de la mémoire nationale en Angleterre a travers les généalogies royales en rouleau du milieu du XIIIe siècle au début du XVe siècle' (unpublished PhD thesis: Paris EHESS, 2002), pp. 1387-89, 1508, passim).
Olivier de Laborderie, Histoire, mémoire et pouvoir: les généalogies en rouleau des rois d'Angleterre: 1250-1422 (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013), no. BL8, p. 502, passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Perceval, Lucy, née King; wife of Charles, 7th Earl of Egmont, d. 1932
Walter de Whittlesey, monk and chronicler of Peterborough Abbey, fl 1321-1329 - Related Material:
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From the printed Catalogue of Additions (1979):
'EGMONT PAPERS. Vol. CCLI. '[C]ronica rotulata Latine et Gallice conscripta cum regibus Anglie ex utraque parte depicta fratris Walteri de Witteliseye monachi mon[a]sterii de Burgo Sancti Petri. Anime cuius propicietur Deus. Amen': roll chronicles of the genealogy of the kings of England with illuminated portraits in roundels and historical glosses in French and Latin, attributed in the title, which appears at the foot, to Walter de Whittlesey, a Peterborough monk, whose autograph chronicle and chartulary of Peterborough Abbey, compiled circ. 1321-1329, is already among the collections (Add. MS. 39758). Imperfect at the beginning. The genealogy on the first side, in French, is traced from Ethelwulf, King of the West Saxons, to the death of Edward I [ 1307]. Text beg. 'Apres ceo vint Adelulf son fuitz'; ends, 'Murrut celuy Rei Edward A. Bourgh. sus Sablionus [Burgh-upon-the-Sands, co. Cumb.] si gist a Westmonstre'. Additions in another hand continue the portraits to the Black Prince and his children: see, 'A Royal Pedigree and a Picture of the Black Prince', The Ancestor, xi, 1904, pp. 158-160. A similar roll chronicle, but beginning earlier with a diagram of the Heptarchy and ending with Henry III, is Royal MS. 14 B.v.; three other forms of the same chronicle are printed by Thomas Wright, Feudal Manuals of English History, 1872, pp. 1-87, although none of them exactly corresponds. The dorse of the roll, in Latin, begins with the story of Schef (O. E. Sceaf) and his descendants, and then traces the genealogy of the kings of Mercia, legendary founders of Peterborough Abbey. The pedigree proper begins with the 29th name, Pybba, King of Mercia, and ends with Edward the Elder: text. beg. 'Attestantibus antiquorum Cronographorum testimoniis navis quedam in Saxonia sine remige quondam appulit'; ends, in the reign of Stephen, 'Nostri vero nimio sanguine fuso feliciter triumparunt'. Another hand has added to Whittlesey's work a long list of events to 1372, and a third hand records the death in 1374 of William de Whittlesey, Archbishop of Canterbury. To this period may also be assigned the continuation of the pedigree on the first side to the Black Prince, whose son Richard is depicted with no title (created Prince of Wales 1376, succ. 1377). Vellum roll. 6.01 m.×.235 m.'