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Royal MS 14 B VI
- Record Id:
- 040-002106925
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x00004e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161518345.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 14 B VI
- Title:
- Genealogical roll of the kings of England
- Scope & Content:
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Contents: A roll chronicle containing the genealogy of the Kings of England from the Heptarchy to Edward I (b. 1239, d. 1307), king of England from 1272, in the form of a diagram of interconnected roundels with royal portraits in colours and gold, and an accompanying commentary. Incipit: 'Par ceste figure desuz len puit savoir'; explicit 'en lan de grace m. e. (sc. et) cc. (sic) e si fu entere a Westmoster'. Includes an addition of roundels drawn in pen of Edward II (b. 1284, d. 1327), king of England from 1308, and Edward III (b. 1312, d. 1377), king of England from 1327, with a record of his declaration as the rightful heir to the French throne in 1340; incipit: 'La mere ceti Edward'; explicit: 'quatrona ses armes'.
Face of the roll:
Membrane 1: The Heptarchy and the royal genealogy from Egbert to Alfred.
Membrane 2: The royal genealogy from Æthelred to Edmund I.
Membrane 3: The royal genealogy from Ædred to Æthelred II.
Membrane 4: The royal genealogy from Edmund II to Harthacnut.
Membrane 5: The royal genealogy from Harold II to Henry I including the line of the dukes of Normandy from Rollo to William the Conqueror.
Membrane 6: The royal genealogy from Steven to John.
Membrane 7: The royal genealogy from Henry III to Edward I with an extension in a different hand from Edward II to Edward III.
The dorse of the roll is blank.
Decoration: Initials in gold with red pen-flourishing, red with blue pen-flourishing, or blue with red pen-flourishing.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
Royal Manuscripts Digitisation Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106925 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 14 B VI : Genealogical roll of the kings of England - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1139]/040-002106925
- 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://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100161518345.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1295
- End Date:
- 1345
- Date Range:
- c 1300-c 1340
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 4750 x 275 mm.
Arrangement: 7 unfoliated parchment membranes joined together end to end to form a roll, with modern parchment membranes added at the beginning and the end to form wrappers.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (East Anglia?).
Provenance:
Added text and outlined drawings of a continuation of the chronicle from Edward II to Edward III, ending with Edward III's declaration as the king of France in 1340: 'Edward se fit apelez roy / de f[r]a[n]ce et dangleterr[e] et q[ua]trona ses armes'.
Henry VIII (b. 1491, d. 1547), king of England and Ireland, perhaps to be identified with the 'Le role des roys d'Angleterre', or 'Rotulus regum Anglie', in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 15 or 17.
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.
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. 108).
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. 215, n. 13, 221, n. 30).
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. 122-23, 244, 247, 257, 262-63, 270, 282, 480, 482, 582, 604, 611, 642, 645, 658, 664, 667, 669, 683, 685-86, 730, 732, 734, 739, 741, 779, 820, 836.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 118 [exhibition catalogue].
Margaret Lamont, 'Genealogical History and the English Roll' in Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users: A Special Issue of Viator in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), pp 245-61 (p. 257, n. 35).
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, http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2014articles/pdf/ebljarticle42104.pdf [accessed 5 November 2019].
- Exhibitions:
- British Library Treasures, (online), 27 February 2016-
Magna Carta, (online), 10 March 2015- - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)