University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1070
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS889
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1070
- Title:
- Genelogies of the Erles of Lecestre and Chester.
- Cooke, Robert, -1592
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- [circa 1572-1573]
- Language:
- eng
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 20 leaves : paper ; 219 x 165 mm bound to 223 x 170 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Cosman, Madeleine Pelner
- Note:
- A copy of Barbara McGeoch's 1974 MA thesis, including an edition of the manuscript, is shelved with the manuscript.
Origin: Written in England, circa 1572-1573.
Title from opening rubric (f. 1v); a faded spine title in ink refers to the Earle of Leycestre and another faded title on the upper cover refers to the Earls of Leycester and Chester with a later addition specifically naming John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, father of Robert Dudley.
Binding: Contemporary stiff vellum with five cords sewn through and visible on spine and one cord now gone at tail of spine; holes for two missing ties on fore-edge of covers.
Collation: Paper, 20; 1¹ 2⁵⁺¹ 3⁸ 4⁴⁺¹; modern foliation in pencil, [1-20], lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 25 long lines, ruled in lead; double vertical and single horizontal bounding lines in pale red ink.
Script: Written in a hybrid secretary script, probably in the hand of Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms (by comparison to MS King's 396, British Library; Megan Cook, Colby College)
Decoration: Miniature of two knights bearing shields with the emblems of Leicester and Chester (f. 2r); 25 small and 2 large (f. 14v, f. 17v) heraldic shields of the descendants of the earls of Leicester and Chester; and an illuminated border throughout formed by the family tree that passes through the heraldic shields and roundels with the names of principal family members, painted in a...
Watermark: Briquet Lettre B 8077-8079 (1566-1580).
Ms. codex.
Sold to H. P. Kraus by a London book dealer before 1964; consigned by Kraus to Sotheby's, 1964.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2007.
Sold to Madeleine Pelner Cosman by Sotheby's, 1964. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942186163503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p32646/manifest
- Holding Institution:
