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Royal MS 14 E IV
- Record Id:
- 040-002107005
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x00009b
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 14 E IV
- Title:
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Jehan de Wavrin, Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre
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The manuscript includes the third volume of the Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre (also known as the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre) of Jean (Jehan) de Wavrin, preceded by a list of contents (ff. 1r-9v). The text of the chronicle begins with the coronation of Richard II and ends in 1387. Incipit: 'Assez tost aprez le trespas'.
According to McKendrick (2011), the manuscript was copied by Jean Du Quesne (or Duchesne), scribe and translator from Lille and illuminated by the Master of the Vienna and Copenhagen Toison d’Or in c. 1470 (other manuscripts copied by Du Quense in the Royal collection are Royal MS 17 F I, Royal MS 17 F VI-VII, and Royal MS 16 G VIII). The work on the manuscript's decoration was subsequently completed in c. 1480 with a collaboration of the Master of the White Inscriptions (ff. 81r, 98v, 114r, 121r, 169v, 299r, see Kren and McKendrick 2003, p. 289), and the Master of Edward IV (f. 293v), with the majority of the illuminated borders painted in a style associated with the Master of the Harley Froissart, except for the three borders of the original campaign, attributable to the Master of the Vienna and Copenhagen Toison d’Or (ff. 14v, 281v, 284r).
The decoration of the manuscript includes 5 half-page miniatures in colours and gold, with full borders, and initials in colours and gold with flowers, at the beginning of books (ff. 10r, 71r, 121r, 186r, 254r). 33 half-page or one-column miniatures with partial borders, and foliate initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of chapters (ff. 14v, 23r, 28v, 34r, 39r, 47v, 49v, 57r, 59v, 64r, 81r, 98v, 114r, 169v, 195r, 201v, 204r, 210r, 217v, 224r, 232r, 236r, 244v, 252r, 258v, 259v, 265v, 267v, 276r, 281v, 284r, 293v, 299r). Initials in gold on blue and rose grounds with penwork decoration in white. Line-fillers in blue and rose with penwork decoration in white. Some written instructions to the illuminators are preserved in lower margins.
The subjects of miniatures are:
f. 10r, Richard II with his court after his coronation (book 1, chapter 1).
f. 14v, Battle between the garrisons of Cherbourg and Montebourg (book 1, chapter 5).
f. 23r, Siege of Mortagne (book 1, chapter 7).
f. 28v, The king of Navarre at Bordeaux and the siege of Pampeluna (book 1, chapter 10).
f. 34r, Lord de Lagurant killed by Bernard Conrat, captain of Cavaillac for the king of England (1379) (book 1, chapter 11).
f. 39r, Marriage of Waleran, Comte de St Pol, to Maud, half-sister of Richard II (book 1, chapter 13).
f. 47v, Death of Bertrand du Guesclin at the siege of Randon (book 1, chapter 17).
f. 49v, Richard II and his council sending the Earl of Buckingham to Brittany, and Buckingham embarking on his ship (book 1, chapter 18).
f. 57r, The English army at the walls of Troyes, with two heralds summoning (book 1, chapter 20).
f. 59v, Capture of a bastion at Troyes (book 1, chapter 21).
f. 64r, Death of Charles V of France (book 1, chapter 22).
f. 71r, Siege of Nantes (book 2, chapter 2).
f. 81r, Joust of Nicholas Clifford and a Frenchman (book 2, chapter 8).
f. 98v, King Richard II ordering the execution of a rebel (book 2, chapter 14).
f. 114r, Pennon of St George hoisted at 'Ville Viciouse' (book 2, chapter 23).
f. 121r, Military expedition from Ghent (book 3, chapter 1).
f. 169v, Audience of the master of the wool-staple with Duke Albert (book 3, chapter 31).
f. 186r, Edmund of Langley remonstrating with the King of Portugal (book 4, chapter 1).
f. 195r, English ships arriving at Lisbon, and the audience of the English envoys (book 4, chapter 9)
f. 201v, Portuguese and English armies defeating a French vanguard of the King of Castile (book 4, chapter 14).
f. 204r, King of Portugal fighting at Juberotes (Albujarotta) (book 4, chapter 16).
f. 210r, Bastion being erected against Brest (book 4, chapter 18).
f. 217v, Chapelle Ardente of the King of Portugal, with hatchments (book 4, chapter 24).
f. 224r, Siege of Brest (book 4, chapter 29).
f. 232r, King of France holding council, and French and Burgundian ships at Sluys (book 4, chapter 34).
f. 236r, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, receiving a letter from the King of Portugal (book 4, chapter 36).
f. 244v, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster dining with the King of Portugal (book 4, chapter 44).
f. 252r, Assault on Ribodane, or Ribadavia, Spain (book 4, chapter 50).
f. 255r, Court of the King of Castile (book 5, chapter 1).
f. 258v, The King of France arrives at Sluys (book 5, chapter 6).
f. 259v, The King of Armenia having an audience with Richard II at Westminster (book 5, chapter 7).
f. 265v, The Dukes of York, Gloucester and Ireland dining with Richard II (book 5, chapter 13).
f. 267v, Judicial combat of Jean de Carrouges and Jacques le Gris (book 5, chapter 16).
f. 275r, Naval fight of English and Flemings.
f. 281v, Taking of Ribodane, or Ribadavia, Spain (book 5, chapter 30).
f. 284r, Marriage of John, king of Portugal to Philippa of Lancaster (book 5, chapter 34).
f. 293v, Joust between John de Holand and Regnault de Roye (book 5, chapter 41).
f. 299r, Council of King John of Castile (book 6, chapter 1).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107005 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 14 E IV : Jehan de Wavrin, Anciennes et nouvelles chroniques d'Angleterre - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1204]/040-002107005
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 329 folios.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_14_E_IV (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1465
- End Date:
- 1485
- Date Range:
- c 1470-c 1480
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 460 x 330 mm (text space: 275 x 200 mm).
Foliation: ff. iii + 329 + ii (the unfoliated flyleaves are: 1 modern paper leaf at the beginning and at the end, and 2 medieval parchment leaves at the beginning and 1at the end; 1 blank leaf after f. 8). Original foliation in red begins on f. 10r.
Collation: 110, 2-418; catchwords and bifolium signatures.
Layout: Written in two columns of 38 lines. Ruling in purple ink.
Script: Gothic hybrid (Bastarda).
Binding: Post-1600. The Royal Library binding of brown leather with royal arms and a date of 1757; gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: copied probably in Lille by the scribe Jan du Quesne (fl. 1460-1479) and illuminated in the southern Netherlands (Bruges).
Provenance:
Edward IV (b. 1442, d. 1483), king of England and lord of Ireland: the royal arms of England surmounted by a crowned helm with mantling in Edward's colours of red and blue, and surrounded by the Garter (ff. 10r, 71r); with a lozenge bearing a white rose of the York family, with a Yorkist badge 'Dieu et mon droit' (e.g., ff. 1r, 23r, 34r, 49v etc.); adapted and completed for him in the southern Netherlands, probably c. 1479- c. 1480: record of payment to the foreign merchant Philip Maisertuell for books and record of books in the Great Wardrobe Accounts of 1480 (see McKendrick 1994).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 43.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
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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. 7).
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. 140.
F. Winkler, Die flämische Buchmalerei des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts: Künstler und Werke von den Brüdern van Eyck bis zu Simon Bening / Mit 91 Lichtdrucktafeln (Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1925), p. 179.
Janet Backhouse, 'Manuscript Sources for the History of Mediaeval Costume', Costume: Journal of the Costume Society, 1 (1968), 9-14 (p. 14, pl. 4).
Margaret Kekewich, 'Edward IV, William Caxton, and Literary Patronage in Yorkist England', The Modern Language Review, 66 (1971) 481-87 (p. 484).
Janet Backhouse, 'Founders of the Royal Library: Edward IV and Henry VII as Collectors of Illuminated Manuscripts', in England in the Fifteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1986 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. by David Williams (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1987), pp. 23-42 (pp. 25, 39).
Scot McKendrick, ‘La Grande Histoire Cesar and the Manuscripts of Edward IV’, in English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 2, ed. by Peter Beal and Jeremy Griffiths, (London: British Library, 1990), pp. 109-38, (p. 110).
Scot McKendrick, 'Lodewijk van Gruuthuse en de Librije van Edward IV', in Lodewijk van Gruuthuse, Mecenas en Europees Diplomaats ca. 1427-1492, ed. by M. P. J. Marten (Bruges: Stichting, 1992), pp. 153-59 (p.159, n. 89).
Scot McKendrick, 'The Romuléon and the Manuscripts of Edward IV', in England in the Fifteenth Century, ed. by Nicholas Rogers, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 4 (Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1994), pp. 149-69 (pp. 162, ns 74, 75, 163).
Lilian M. C. Randall and others, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, 3 vols (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989-1997), III: Belgium, 1250-1530, p. 390.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H1.43, p. xxv.
Pamela Porter, Medieval Warfare in Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2000), p. 15, p. 29.
The Image of Time: European Manuscript Books (Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, 2000), no. 56 [exhibition catalogue].
Hanno Wijjsman, 'William Lord Hastings, Les Faits de Jacques De Lalaing et le Maître aux inscriptions blanches à propos du manuscrit français 16830 de la Bibliothèque nationale de France', in ’Als Ich Can’: Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers, ed. by Bert Cardon and others, 2 vols (Paris: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2002), pp. 1641-664 (p. 1652).
C. T. L. Visser-Fuchs, 'Warwick and Wavrin, Two Case Studies on the Literary Background of Anglo-Burgundian Relations in the Yorkist Period' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University College, London, 2002), pp. 322, 331.
Justin Clegg, The Medieval Church in Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003), p. 34, fig. 28.
Pamela Porter, Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2003), p. 18.
Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), pp. 279, 280, 289. [exhibition catalogue].
Joe Flatman, Ships and Shipping in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2009), pls 85, 90, 97, 103.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, Kathleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 48.
- Exhibitions:
- Battles and Dynasties, The Collection, Lincoln, 27 May 2017 - 3 September 2017
The Middle Ages, (online), 26 March 2015- - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)