University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Roll 1066
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS2106
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Roll 1066
- Title:
- Genealogical chronicle of the kings of England to Edward IV
- Place:
- London?, England
- Date:
- circa 1461
- Language:
- Latin, with a few words in Middle English
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 roll (13 membranes) : parchment ; 1122.25 x 32 cm
- Former Owner(s):
- Hauck, Cornelius J. 1893-1967
- Note:
- Ms. roll.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Temporum summam lineamque descendentem ... " (prologue from Roger of Wendover's Flores historiae); explicit: "Et tunc dominus Ricardus dux Ebor regens nationem francie."
Script: Written in an anglicana hand.
Decoration: 3 large roundels with tinted drawings of Adam and Eve, a T-O or tau world map, and Noah's ark (membrane 1); 3 mandorlas with tinted drawings of full-length figures (Brut, membrane 2; Claudius and Lucius, membrane 5; Arthur, membrane 7); 14 medium roundels of bust-length kings and queens in color in frames of burnished gold linked by bands of burnished gold following a full-length...
Origin: Written and illustrated in England, probably London, soon after the accession of Edward IV in 1461.
Previously sold by Philip Duchnes (New York).
Formerly in the collection of Cornelius J. Hauck, given to the Cincinnati Historical Society in 1966.
Sold at auction at Christie's (New York) as part of the Hauck Collection, 2006.
Sold by Sam Fogg (London), 2007. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9941717573503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3qk24/manifest
- Holding Institution:
