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Royal MS 15 E IV
- Record Id:
- 040-002107092
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002105724
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x0000f0
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Royal MS 15 E IV
- Title:
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Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, vol. 1
- Scope & Content:
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The first volume of the Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne (Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre)by Jean de Wavrin, Seigneur de Forestel, contains a chronicle of British history from its mythical origins up to the reign of Edward II. This copy has been bound in two separate parts, ff. 1-174 and ff. 175-350. The remaining five volumes relate events up to the author''s lifetime in the reign of Edward IV. The material is compiled from existing chronicles and historical writings. It is divided into six books, as follows:
Contents list and prologue: ff. 1r-15v
Book 1: ff. 16r-24r
Book 2: ff. 24v-119v
Book 3: ff. 120r-191v (part 1 ends at f. 174 and part 2 begins at f. 175)
Book 4: ff. 192r-235v
Book 5: ff. 236r-295r
Book 6: ff. 295v-350v
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Royal Collection
Royal Manuscripts Digitisation Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002105724
040-002107092 - Is part of:
- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 15 E IV : Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, vol. 1 - Contains:
- Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 1r-174v : Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, volume I, ff. 1-174
Royal MS 15 E IV, ff 175r-350v : Jean de Wavrin, Recueil des croniques et anciennes istoires de la Grant Bretaigne, volume I, ff 175r-350v
Royal MS 15 E IV, ff ix-xviii : Binding and flyleaves for part 2 of Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre, volume 1, ff 175r-350v
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- 032-002105724[1287]/040-002107092
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X
- Record Type (Level):
- File
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A parchment codex bound as 2 separate volumes
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_15_E_IV (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1471
- End Date:
- 1483
- Date Range:
- 1471-1483
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment codex.
Foliation: Part 1: ff. iv + 174 + iv (the fourth unfoliated flyleaf at the beginning and the first unfoliated flyleaf at the end are parchment leaves; the remaining unfoliated flyleaves are modern paper leaves). Part 2: ff. iii + 175 + iv (the first unfoliated flyleaf at the end is a parchment leaf; the remaining unfoliated flyleaves are modern paper leaves). Catchwords written vertically, quire numbers and bifolium signatures.
Collation: Part 1: i8(ff. i,1-7), ii-xxi8(ff. 8-174). Part 2: i-xxi8.
Layout: Written in two columns of 36 lines.
Script: Gothic cursive (bâtarde).
Binding: Post-1600. Royal library binding of red leather with the Royal arms and a date of 1757.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Southern Netherlands (Bruges).
Provenance:
Edward IV (b. 1442, d. 1483), King of England and Lord of Ireland, adapted for him: his portrait wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece that he had received in 1468, the royal arms of England supported by the Lions of March, Edward''s badge, and a banner with the motto of the Garter (f. 14r).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 12; and in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 13r.
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
- Information About Copies:
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- Publications:
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J. Strutt, A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England (London, 1796, reprinted London: Tabard Press, 1970) II, pl. cxxiii, fig. 6.
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. 5).
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.
Margaret Kekewich, ''Edward IV, William Caxton, and Literary Patronage in Yorkist England'', The Modern Language Review, 66 (1971) 481-87 (p. 484).
Otto Pächt, ''La terre de Flandres'', Pantheon, 36 (1978), 3-16 (p. 14, fig. 21).
The Hastings Hours, with preface and commentary by D. H. Turner (London: Thames and Hudson, 1983), p. 99.
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. 24, 40, pl. 1).
Lilian M. C. Randall, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery, 3 vols (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989-1997), III: Belgium, 1250-1530, 2 parts, I, p. 276.
Scot McKendrick, ''Lodewijk von Gruuthuse en de Liberije van Edward IV'', in Lodewijk von Gruuthuse: Mecenas en europeen Diplomaat, ca.1427-1492, ed. by M.P.J. Martens (Bruges, 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 (p. 165, n. 101).
D. B. Mahoney, ''Courtly Presentation and Authorial Self-Fashioning: Frontispiece Miniatures in the Late Medieval French and English Manuscripts'', Medievalia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies Worldwide, 21 (1996) 97-160 (pp. 104-05, fig. 3).
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 173.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H1.12, pl. 6b.
Janet Backhouse, ''Memorials and Manuscripts of a Yorkist Elite'', in St George''s Chapel, Windsor, in the Late Middle Ages, ed. by Colin Richmond and Eileen Scarff, Historical Monographs relating to St George Chapel, Windsor Castle, 17 (Leeds : Maney Publishing, 2001), pp. 151-60 (p. 152).
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 dissertation, University College, London, 2002), pp. 206, 322, 331
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1550 (London: British Library, 2003), pls. 65-66.
Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), no. 75 pp. 69, 224, 226, 256, 276, 278-80, 284, 301 exhibition catalogue.
Sophie Page, Magic in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2004), pp. 8-9, pl. 5.
Alain Marchandisse, ''Jean de Wavrin, un chroniqueur entre Bourgogne et Angleterre, et ses homologues bourguignons face a la guerre des Deux Roses'', Le Moyen Age, 112 (2006.3), 507-27 (pp. 512, 518).
Joe Flatman, Ships and Shipping in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2009), pls 95, 105, 149.
Ilona Hans-Collas and Pascal Schandel, Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux, II: Manuscrits de Louis de Bruges (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2009), pp. 157-58, 256-72.
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden and Kathleen Doyle, ~Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination~ (London: British Library, 2011), no 47 exhibition catalogue.
- Exhibitions:
- Discovering literature: Shakespeare and Renaissance, (online), 30 April 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)