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Royal MS 14 C VII
- Record Id:
- 040-002106988
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x00008b
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 14 C VII
- Title:
- Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum, Chronica majora, Part III
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript includes two autograph copies of historical works by Matthew Paris with prefatory material:
1. Maps and other prefatory material including a diagram of Winds, the Itinerary from London to the Holy Land, Easter tables and a calendar (ff. 1v-8r);
2. Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum (ff. 10r-156v) prefaced with images of English kings (ff. 8v-9r);
3. Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, Part III, with the continuation written after Paris's death (ff. 157r-218v).
Decoration: Maps in colours and gold of an itinerary from London to Apulia (ff. 2r-4r), and to the Holy Land (ff. 4v-5r), now mounted separately. 1 large framed tinted drawing of the Virgin and Child (f. 6r). A series of tinted drawings of the kings of England (ff. 8v-9r). Numerous shields with coats of arms, crosiers and mitres or tiaras in colours, upright or inverted, indicating births, elections of bishops or popes, coronations, or death of kings and knights and several tinted drawings. 1 diagram in ink (f. 1v). Puzzle initials in red and blue with a foliate decoration in green, brown, and red. Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in blue with red pen-flourishing.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
Royal Manuscripts Digitisation Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002106988 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 14 C VII : Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum, Chronica majora, Part III - Contains:
- Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 1v-8r : Maps and other prefatory material
Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 8v-156v : Matthew Paris, Historia Anglorum
Royal MS 14 C VII, ff 157r-231r : Matthew Paris, Chronica Maiora, with a continuation
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- 032-002105724[1192]/040-002106988
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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232 folios.
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- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1259
- Date Range:
- 1250-1259
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 360 x 245 mm (text space: 260 x 170 mm).
Foliation: ff. ii + 232 (+ 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end; 1 blank modern parchment leaf after f. 1; ff. i, ii, 1, 232 are medieval parchment flyleaves; ff. 2-5 are parchment leaves mounted separately)
Collation: Gatherings irregular (often of 12 leaves). Catchwords and quire signatures, with a note of numbers of leaves in the lower margin of each first folio of a quire; figures on the second page of the first five or six leaves. Two leaves have been supplied (in place of one original leaf) at ff. 34, 35, by the same hand (16th century) which also supplied Royal MS 14 C II, f. 1. Layout: Written in two columns of varying number of lines (generally 50 at first, less towards the end).
Script: Gothic. Written by Matthew Paris except ff. 154v-156v, 210r col. 2-218v, which are in the hand of the scribe who added a note of Matthew Paris's death (f. 218v); ff. 219r-231r containing the continuation from 1259 to 1272 (15th century); and ff. 34r-35v (16th century).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding. ff. 2-5 are bound separately in glass mounts.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (St Albans).
Provenance:
Matthew Paris (b. c.1200, d.1259), historian, Benedictine monk, written by him between 1250 and 1259: the Historia Anglorum begun in 1250, 'Nec usque ad tempora hec scribentis videlicet annum gratia M CCL est inventus'; and given to the Benedictine abbey of St Albans: inscribed: 'Hunc librum dedit f[rate]r matthaeus pariesiensis [erased] / Anima Mattaei et anime omniu[m] fidelium defunctorum requiescant in pace. Amen' (f. 6v).The Benedictine abbey of St Albans: above inscription, and St Albans library pressmark 'A.19' (f. 1r).
Humfrey [or Humphrey of Lancaster], duke of Gloucester (b. 1390, d. 1447), prince, soldier, and literary patron, duke of Gloucester from 1414: an erased inscription 'Ceste livre est a moy Homffrey Duc de Gloucestre' (f. 231r).
John Russell (b. c.1430, d. 1494), bishop of Lincoln: inscription of 1488 stating that if the book can be proved to have belonged to St Albans the bishop will view it as a loan from the monks, but otherwise he bequeaths it to New College, Oxford (f. 1r).
Polydore Vergil [Polidoro Virgili] (b. c. 1470, d. 1555), historian: used by him for his Anglica Historia of 1534; notes in his hand (ff. 10r-100r).
Added leaves replacing the original folios, 16th century (ff. 34r-35v).
The Old Royal Library (the English royal library): Westminster inventory number 'no. 1041' (f. 1r), included in the Upper Library at Westminster after c. 1547; and in the select list of works noted by John Bale, as 'Chronica Matthei Parys. Thys chronycle remayneth in the custodye of my lorde of Arundell, beynge a fayre, and written in an olde Latyne lettre. It belongeth to the quenes majestyes lybrary, lent by Bartylmew Trihearon, suche tyme as he had the kepynge of that lybrarye in the kynge Edwardes tyme'.
Henry Fitzalan, 12th earl of Arundel (b. 1512, d. 1580), magnate: lent to him by Bartholomew Traheron, keeper of the king's library (1549-53) (see note above).
Matthew Parker (b. 1504, d.1575), archbishop of Canterbury and patron of scholarship: lent to him by Arundel for his edition of the Chronica Majora of 1571 (see Graham and Watson 1998).
Inscribed 'Johannes Minsheus', probably to be identified with John Minsheu (b. 1559/60, d. 1627), lexicographer (f. ii recto).
John Lumley, 1st baron Lumley (b. c. 1533, d. 1609), collector and conspirator: inscribed with his name (f. 1r); 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.
The Old Royal Library: included in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 21; and in the 1698 catalogue of the library of St James’s Palace (see Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 8345).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
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- Publications:
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R. Gough, British Topography (London, 1780), I, pp. 61-64.
Joseph Strutt, Horda Angel-cynnan: or a Complete View of the Manners, Customs, Arms, Habits, etc. of the Inhabitants of England, from the arrival of the Saxons till the reign of Henry the Eighth, 3 vols (London: White, 1775-6), II (1775), pl. XXXIII.
Matthew Paris, Matthaei Parisiensis, monachi Sancti Albani, Historia anglorum: sive, ut vulgo dicitur, Historia minor; item ejusdem abbreviatio chronicorum Angliæ, ed. by Sir Frederic Madden, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores, 44 (London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1866-1869), p. xxxviii.
T. D. Hardy, Descriptive Catalogue of Materials for British History, 3 vols (London: Rolls Series, 1862-1871), l, pp. lx, lxxi, lxxiii, lxxvi, cxxvi-vii, cxxx-cxxxi, III, pp. 133-36, 153-55.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts (London: Methuen, 1911), p. 185.
Schools of Illumination: Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1914-1930), II: English 12th and 13th Centuries (1915), pl. 10.
W. R. Lethaby, 'English Primitives', Burlington Magazine, 31 (1917), 45-52 (pp. 45, 47-48).
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, pp. 135-36.
M. R. James, 'The Drawings of Matthew Paris', Walpole Society, 14 (1926), 1-26 (pp. 18-21).
Eric G. Millar, English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century (Paris: Van Oest, 1926), pl. 87.
[Eric G. Millar], British Museum Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 4 (London: British Museum, 1928), pl. 17.
J. P. Gilson, Four Maps of Great Britain designed by Matthew Paris (London: British Museum, 1928), pp. 3-11, pl. D.
O. E. Sounders, English Illumination, 2 vols (Paris: Pegasus Press, 1928, reprinted New York: Hacker Art Books, 1970), I, pp. 76, 78, II, pl. 80.
J. B. Mitchell, 'Early Maps of Great Britain. I: Matthew Paris Maps', The Geographical Journal, 81 (1933), 28-34.
English Benedictine Calendars after A. D. 1100, ed. by Francis Wormald, 2 vols, Henry Bradshaw Society, 77, 81 (London: Harrison and Sons, 1934-1939), I, 32.
Guide to an Exhibition of English Art gathered from Various Departments and held in the Prints and Drawings Gallery (London: British Museum, 1934), no. 113.
Youssouf Kamal, Monumenta Cartographica Africae et Aegypti, 5 vols (Leiden: [Printed for the Author], 1935), III, p. 1001.
B. L. Ullman, 'Manuscripts of Duke Humphrey of Gloucester', in Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Storia e Letteratura, 51 (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1955), pp. 345-55 (first publ. in English Historical Review, 52 (1937), 670-72), (p. 354 no. 14).
F. M. Powicke, 'Notes on the compilation of the Cronica Majora of Matthew Paris', Modern Philology, 38 (1941), pp. 312-17.
Francis Wormald, 'More Matthew Paris Drawings', Walpole Society, 31 (1942-43), 109-12 (p. 109, n. 2).
V. H. Galbraith, Roger Wendover and Matthew Paris (Glasgow: University of Glasgow Publications, 1944), pp. 24, 28-30.
F. M. Powicke, 'The Compilation of the Chronica Majora of Matthew Paris', ~Proceedings of the British Academy~, 30 (1944), pp. 153-60.
Aspilogia: being Materials of Heraldry, 2 vols, ed. by A. R. Wagner (Oxford: University Press, 1950), I: A Catalogue of English Medieval Rolls of Arms, p. 1.
C. E. Wright, 'The Dispersal of the Monastic Libraries and the Beginnings of Anglo-Saxon Studies. Matthew Parker and his Circle: a Preliminary Study', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 3 (1951) 208-37 (f. 214).
Richard Vaughan, 'The Handwriting of Matthew Paris', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 5 (1953) 376-94 (pp. 376-77, 380, 388, 399, pls XVIIb, XIXh).
G. B. Parks, The English Traveller to Italy (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1954), pp. 180-84.
Peter Brieger, English Art 1216-1307, Oxford History of English Art, 4 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1957), p. 136.
Richard Vaughan, Matthew Paris (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958), pls I, V, XI, XII.
N. R. Ker, 'From 'Above Top Line' to 'Below Top Line': A Change in Scribal Practice', Celtica, 5 (1960) 13-16 (p. 15).
O. H. M. Baron Hexthausen, 'Jerusalemskorset', Heraldisk Tidsskrift, 7 (1963), 293-306 (p. 303, il. 15).
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. 167.
D. H. Turner, 'The Evesham Psalter', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 27 (1964), 23-41 (p. 35).
Roberto Weiss, 'Portrait of a Bibliophile XI: Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester d. 1447', The Book Collector, 13 (1964) 161-70 (pl. 1b).
Margaret Rickert, Painting in Britain: the Middle Ages, 2nd edn (London: Penguin Books, 1965), pp. 108-09, 203, pl. 110.
Aspilogia: being Materials of Heraldry, ed. by Anthony Wagner, II: Rolls of Arms: Henry III: The Matthew Paris shields, c. 1244-59', ed. by Thomas Daniel Tremlett (Oxford: University Press, 1967), pp. 11-36, 77-79.
Antonia Gransden, Historical Writing in England, 2 vols (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974), I: c. 550 - c. 1307, p. 356 passim, pl. IX.
Sonia Patterson, 'An Attempt to Identify Matthew Paris as a Flourisher', The Library 32 (1977), 367-70.
André de Mandach, Naissance et développement de la Chanson de Geste en Europe (Geneva: Libraire Droz, 1961- ), III: Chanson d'Aspremont, A. Les cours d'Agoland et de Charlemagne, Publications romanes et françaises, 134 (1975), p. 34.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 893.
W. B. Yapp, 'The Birds of English Medieval Manuscripts', Journal of Medieval History, 5 (1979) 315-48 (pp. 320, 346).
Francois Avril, L'enluminure a l'epoque gothique 1200-1420, Bibliothèque de l'image (Paris: Famot, 1979), pp. 33-34.
Helen Wallis, 'The Royal Map Collection of England', Rivista da Universidade de Coimbra, 41 (1981), 3-10 (p. 3).
Nigel Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts, 2 vols, A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles, 4 (London Harvey Miller, 1982-1988), I: 1190-1250, no. 92 [with additional bibliography], II: 1250-1285, pp. 51, 84.
The Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400, ed. by Jonathan Alexander and Paul Binski (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1987), no. 437 [exhibition catalogue].
Suzanne Lewis, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1987), pp. 9, 16, 145, 156, 457-67, figs 1, 2, 20, 48, 63, 71, 79, 105, 134, 141, 147, 155, 159-61, 163, 167, 169, 183, 191, 194, 204-08, 217, 218, pl. VII.
Jeanne E. Krochalis, 'The Books and Readings of Henry V and his Circle', The Chaucer Review, 23 (1988), 50-77 (p. 57).
Europa und der Orient: 800-1900, ed. by Gereon Sievernich and Hendrik Budde (Berline: Bertelsmann Lexikon, 1989), no. 7/3 [exhibition catalogue].
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P. D. A. Harvey, Mappa Mundi: The Hereford World Map (London: British Library, 1996), pls on pp. 36-37.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 59 and 60.
Sonia Scott-Fleming, The Analysis of Pen Flourishing in Thirteenth-Century Manuscripts (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1989), pp. 30-31.
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), pp. 25, 109, 172 n. 62, fig. 36.
Anna-Dorothee von den Brincken, 'Mappe de cielo e della terra: L'orientamento nel basso medioevo', in Atti del XXXIII Convegno Storico Internazionale, Todi, 8-11 ottobre 1995 (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 1996), pp. 81-96 (pp. 88-89, pl. VI).
Thomas Szabo, 'Le vie per Roma', in La Storia dei Giubilei, vol. I: 1300-1423, ed. by Gloria Fossi (Roma: Giunti, 1997), pp. 71-89 (pp. 74-75).
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Pamela Porter, Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 17-18.
Paul Binski, Becket’s Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England 1170-1300 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), pls 108, 185.
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Jane Roberts, Guide to Scripts used in English Writings up to 1500 (London: British Library, 2005), p. 149.
Katharine Breen, 'Returning Home from Jerusalem: Matthew Paris's First Map of Britain in Its Manuscript Context, Representations, 89 (2005), 59-93 (p. 59, 61, 62 and passim, figs. 1-11).
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M. Meuwese, 'Representations of Jerusalem on Medieval Maps and Miniatures', Eastern Christian Art, 2 (2005), 139-48 (pp. 140-42, pl. 3).
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Ingrid Baumgärtner, 'Reiseberichte und Karten: Eechselswitige Einflüsse im späten Mittelalter?', in In Spuren Reisen: Vor-Bilder und Vor-Studien in der Reiseliteratur, ed. by Gisela Ecker and Susanne Röhl (Berlin: Lit, 2006), pp. 89-124 (pp. 105, 107, il. 4).
Michelle P. Brown, The Holkham Bible: A Facsimile (London, British Library, 2007), p. 18, pl. 19.
Sacred: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their Sacred Texts (London: British Library, 2007), p. 205 [exhibition catalogue].
The Grant Atelier: Patheways of Art in Europe (5th-18th Centureis), ed. by Roland Recht (Brussels: Europalia, 2007), no. VI.2 [exhibition catalogue].
Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008), pp. 240-41, pl. 15-1.
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Joe Flatman, Ships and Shipping in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2009), pls 52, 53, 61, 62.
Scot McKendirck, John Lowden, and Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), nos 94 and 114 [exhibition catalogue].
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