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Royal MS 14 B V
- Record Id:
- 040-002106924
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x00004d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161518323.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 14 B V
- Title:
- Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings
- Scope & Content:
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Contents: A roll chronicle containing the genealogy of the kings of England from the Heptarchy to Edward I as a king (1272-1307), but without portraits of his children, in the form of a diagram of interconnected roundels with portraits of kings in colours and gold, and an accompanying commentary; incipit: 'Par ceste figure desus lem put savoir'; explicit (with the death of Henry III) 'en le an de grace m.e. (sc. et) cc. (sic) e fu enterre a Westmouster'.
There is a partly obliterated note in red, at the end, which details excuses by the illuminator, who was pressed for time.
Face of the roll:
Membrane 1: The Heptarchy and the royal genealogy from Egbert to Æthelred.
Membrane 2: The royal genealogy from Æthelred to Ædred.
Membrane 3: The royal genealogy from Edwin to Edmund II Ironside and his descendants: Edward Ætheling, Edgar, Margaret, Edmund, and Christine.
Membrane 4: The royal genealogy of Cnut, with Edward the Confessor and Harold Godwinson, and the line of the Norman ancestors of William the Conqueror: Rollo, William, and Richard I the Fearless.
Membrane 5: The genealogy from Richard I the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, to Henry II and his descendants.
Membrane 6: The royal genealogy from Henry II to Edward I.
The dorse of the roll is blank.
The decoration also includes numerous marginal scenes, isolated human figures, animals and hybrids including men on stilts, shooting at rabbits and slinging at a parrot, a fox with crutch consulting a monkey physician, mice hanging a cat, a hare mounted on a hound hunting a stag. Initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
Royal Manuscripts Digitisation Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106924 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 14 B V : Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1138]/040-002106924
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 roll
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161518323.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1275
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment roll.
Dimensions: 3935 x 240 mm.
Arrangement: 6 membranes joined together end to end to form a roll, with parchment membranes added at the beginning and at the end to form wrappers.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c .1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: probably to be identified with a roll containing the royal genealogy until Edward I listed in the 1609 catalogue of his collection, no. 1444 (The Lumley Library, 1956); passed to Henry, prince of Wales. Henry Frederick, prince of Wales (b. 1594, d. 1612), eldest child of James I: his collection became part of the Royal Library. Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- 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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H. Omont, 'Les manuscrits français des rois d'Angleterre au château de Richmond', in Etudes romanes dédiés à Gaston Paris (Paris: É. Bouillon, 1891), pp. 1-13 (p. 6).
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), II, p. 176.
The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609, ed. by Sears Jayne and Francis R. Johnson (London: British Museum, 1956), p. 176.
Diana B. Tyson, 'An Early French Prose History of the Kings of England', Romania, 96 (1975) 1-26 (p. 7) [an edition of the text].
Diana B. Tyson, 'Handlist of Manuscripts Containing the French Prose Brut Chronicle', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 48 (1994), 333-44 (p. 343).
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library in association with The British Academy, 2000), H1.17.
Diana B. Tyson, 'The Manuscript Tradition of Old French Prose Brut Rolls', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 55 (2001), 107-18 (p. 107).
Olivier de Laborderie, 'La mémoire des origines Normandes des rois d’Angleterre dans les généalogies en rouleau des XIIIe et XIVe siècles', in La Normandie et l’Angleterre au Moyen Age, Colloque de Crécy-la-Salle (4-7 octobre 2001), ed. by Pierre Bouzet and Véronique Gazeau (Caen: Publications du CRAHM, 2003), pp. 211-36 (pp. 220, n. 25, 223).
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 doctoral dissertation, Paris EHESS, 2002), pp. 237, 243, 245, 249, 251, 257, 262-24, 282, 481, 533, 681, 729-30, 732, 734, 738, 741, 802.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 117 [exhibition catalogue].
Olivier de Laborderie, 'The first manuals of English History: Two Late Thirteenth-Century Genealogical Rolls of the Kings of England in the Royal Collection', Electronic British Library Journal (2014), article 4.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)