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Lansdowne Roll 3

Record Id:

040-003457644

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003313209

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100083119167.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Lansdowne Roll 3

Title:

Genealogical roll chronicle of the English kings to Richard II

Scope & Content:

Contents:

Also known as Lansdowne Charter Rot. 3. Order as Lansdowne Roll 3.

A genealogical chronicle, with a commentary in Anglo-Norman French, from the reign of Egbert to Henry III and a continuation to Richard II on the dorse. It is dated to the reign of Edward I (r.1272-1307)

Face of the roll:

Membrane 1: A diagram of the Heptarchy, followed by a commentary and a poem from Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, in Latin;

Membranes 1-4: A genealogical diagram from Egbert (here named 'Aethelbert') to the children of Henry III, with a commentary in Anglo-Norman French;

Dorse of the roll (dorse abbreviated as d):

Membrane 1d: A continuation of the genealogical diagram from Edward I to Richard II, with commentary up to Edward, the Black Prince in Latin; the content is similar to Additional MS 21368 (see de Laborderie, 'Ligne des Reis' (2002)).

Membranes 2d-4d: Blank.

Decoration:

Diagrams in brown ink (membranes 1-4). Crosses in the margin and spaces left for initials. Traces of green and red ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Lansdowne Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003313209
040-003457644

Is part of:

Lansdowne Ch : Lansdowne Charters and Rolls

Lansdowne Roll 3 : Genealogical roll chronicle of the English kings to Richard II

Hierarchy:

032-003313209[0005]/040-003457644

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Lansdowne Ch

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 roll

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Anglo-Norman
French
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1272

End Date:

1307

Date Range:

1272-1307

Era:

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User Conditions:

Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 2100 x 170/200 mm.

Script: Gothic.

Arrangement: 4 unfoliated parchment membranes stitched together end-to-end with an added modern parchment membrane forming a wrapper.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

William Petty (formerly Fitzmaurice) (b. 1737, d. 1805), 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, and prime minister; the number, '1117' inscribed in an early modern hand at the top of membrane1d: purchased by the British Museum from him together with the Lansdowne manuscripts in 1807.

Former Internal References:

Lansdowne Charter Rot. 3

Information About Copies:

Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.

Publications:

'Catalogue of the Topham charters and the Lansdowne rolls and charters, part II: Rolls and charters belonging to the Lansdowne collection of manuscripts purchased in 1807' (British Museum, handwritten catalogue).

Thomas Wright, Feudal Manuals of English History (London, 1872), pp. XIII-XIV, 61-87.

W. H. Monroe, 'Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century Illustrated Genealogical Manuscripts in Roll and Codex: Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium, Universal Histories and Chronicles of the Kings of England' (unpublished PhD thesis: University of London, 1989), pp. 546-48.

Ruth Dean and Maureen Bolton, Anglo-Norman Literature, A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), no. 6.

Diana B. Tyson, 'The Manuscript Tradition of Old French Prose Brut Rolls', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 55 (2001), 107-18 (no. BL6, pp. 107, 108, 109, 110, 115, 118).

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 PhD thesis, Paris EHESS, 2002), pp. 1398-99, 1508, passim.

Olivier de Laborderie, Histoire, mémoire et pouvoir: les généalogies en rouleau des rois d'Angleterre: 1250-1422 (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013), no. BL13, p. 502, passim.

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. 246, n. 6).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England