Lehigh University, Lehigh Roll 8
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- DS ID:
- DS30071
- Shelfmark:
- Lehigh Roll 8
- Title:
- Roger of St. Albans. Genealogical roll
- Author:
- Rogerus Albanus -1450
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- 1461-1465
- Language:
- Latin; French
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 6130 x 300 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Honeyman, Robert B.
- Note:
- Has been removed from its 19th century wooden and glass case, the digital facsimile includes photos of the case taken after removal
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Genealogical tree diagram; rondels with borders in red and green, connected by lines in red, green, and blue; 28 rondels are crowned; one-line or two-line initials at the beginning of paragraphs alternate between blue and red; internal initials touched with red; some names in rondels written in red; larger rondels with space for illustrations of Adam and Eve and the Nativity are...
Related resource: Hirsh, John C., Western Manuscripts of the Twelfth through the Sixteenth Centuries in Lehigh University Libraries: A Guide to the Exhibition (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Rare Book Room, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, 1970), pp. 14-15, no. 8.
Provenance: Owner inscription "liber Robert Ohlund (?) de Stondley (?)" (sixteenth century); acquired by Lehigh in 1955, the gift of Mr. Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0007/html/lehigh_roll_008.html
- Holding Institution:
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