Harvard University, MS Typ 11

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10931

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 11

Title:

Genealogical history of the kings of England from Athelstan to Edward I

Date:

ca. 1300

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

fre

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 roll : vellum ; 403 x 26 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Ord, Craven, 1756-1832

Craven Ord WIKIDATA

Graves, Richard, 1677-1729

Richard Graves WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

There are 25 large and 82 smaller medallion portraits in color of the English monarchs and their descendants, connected by colored stripes to indicate descent. Text accompanying the medallions is in Old French, written in a gothic hand in brown ink.
The beginning and end of the roll are wanting.
In a red cloth box 29 x 7 x 7 cm.
Richard Graves (see letter in internal file); Ord Craven (sale 1830); Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 4096).
Purchased with the gifts of the Friends of the Harvard College Library, 1941.

Keyword:

scrolls (information artifacts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Great Britain

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990095076400203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:497142794

Holding Institution:

Harvard University