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Royal MS 7 D X
- Record Id:
- 040-002106250
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000277.0x000263
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165177811.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 7 D X
- Title:
- Prayers and meditations (the 'Prayerbook of Princess Elizabeth')
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript includes a collection of prayers translated into Latin, French and Italian by Princess, afterwards Queen, Elizabeth when she was twelve years old; preceded by a Latin dedication to Henry VIII (ff. 1r-5r). This preface preface dated 30 December 1545 and addressed from Hertford is the only extant letter from Elizabeth to her father, incipit: 'Precationes seu meditationes quibus mens commovetur ad omnes perturbationes... per Nobilis. et Pientis. D. Catharinam Anglie, Francie Hibernique reginam collecte et per D Elizabetam ex anglico converse.'
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106250 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 7 D X : Prayers and meditations (the 'Prayerbook of Princess Elizabeth') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[0483]/040-002106250
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165177811.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1545
- End Date:
- 1545
- Date Range:
- 1545
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 140 x 100 mm (text space: 100 x 65 mm).
Foliation: ff. 117 (+ 3 unfoliated parchment flyleaves: 1 at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Collation: i6-1 (ff. 1-5; 1 leaf cancelled after f. 5); ii8-1 (ff. 6-12; 1 leaf cancelled after f. 12 ff. 8 and 11 are pasted in singletons); iii8+1 (ff. 13-21; f. 13 is a singleton?); iv-v8 (ff. 22-37); vi4-1 (ff. 39-39; 2 leaves cancelled, 1 before f. 39 and 1 after 39?); vii-x8 (ff. 40-71); xi6 (ff. 72-77); xii2 (ff. 78-79); xiii-xvi8 (ff. 80-111); xvii6 (ff. 112-[118]; f. [118] is unfoliated).
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Pre-1600. Crimson silk binding, embroidered in gold and silver with initials of Henry VIII and Katherine Parr intwined, and Tudor roses.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (London).
Princess Elizabeth, the future Elizabeth I (b. 1533, d. 1603), Queen of England and Ireland: translated by her into Latin French and Italian and presented to her father Henry VIII as a New Year's present in 1546; perhaps to be identified with a prayerbook seen by Philip Julius, Duke of Stettin-Pomerania in the 'Queen's cabinet' at Whitehall in 1602 (see von Bülow, Diary, 1982); passed to the Old Royal library (the English Royal library), but not regorded in the old catalogues.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Administrative Context:
- England (London).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), I, pp. 187-88
'Diary of the Journey of Philip Julius, Duke of Stettin-Pomerania, through England in the Year 1602', ed. by Gottfried von Bülow, Transacrions of the Royal Historical Society, 6 (1982), 1-67 (p. 25).
Janet Backhouse, ‘Sire Robert Cotton’s Record of a Royal Bookshelf’, British Library Journal, 18 (1992), 44-51 (p. 47).
Elizabeth: The Exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, ed. by Susan Doran (London: Chatto & Windus, 2003), no. 12 [exhibition catalogue].
Kathleen Doyle, The Old Royal Library: 'A greate many noble manuscripts yet remaining'', 'in Scot McKendrick, John Lowden and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), pp. 67-89 (p. 74).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)