University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Roll 1588
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS2108
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Roll 1588
- Title:
- Genealogical chronicle fragment of the kings of England to Kimbelinus and Arvigarus.
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- [between 1425 and 1450]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 roll (2 membranes) : parchment ; 1620 x 260 mm
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
The same text is found in seven other manuscripts: Queen's College, Cambridge, MS. 167; College of Arms, MSS. muniment room 20/3 and 23; Bodleian, Oxford, MS. Bodleian Rolls 10; King's College, Cambridge, MS. 43; British Library, Lansdowne MS. 2; and Harley Roll c.5. The Queen's College and College of Arms rolls are most similar to UPenn Ms. Roll 1588 (Sotheby's).
Origin: Written and illustrated in England in the second quarter of the 15th century (Sotheby's).
Incipit: "Iste Nemroth erat gigas ... " (text at top next to Noah roundel); "[Ab isto] Strephes filio Iapheth fratre..." (top of left column); "[Ab] hiis trib[us] filiis Noe texuntur generaciones septuaginte ..." (top of right column).
Edges damaged, with some loss of text on left edge; mounted on modern vellum before sale in 2010.
Script: Written in secretary script.
Decoration: Yellow, green, and red bands linking double roundels in red ink containing names in brown ink, except for the names Noa (in a larger roundel at the top, probably for an illumination never added) and Brutus in red, and a larger empty roundel off to the side at the bottom of the second membrane labeled Incarnatio Christi in red, perhaps intended for a Nativity scene.
Ms. roll.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 7 December 2010, lot 16. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949343313503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3923m/manifest
- Holding Institution:
