The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 264
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9887
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 264
- Title:
- Genealogical chronicle of the Kings of England
- Place:
- England
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1475
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 5 membranes : parchment ; 310 x 4420 mm
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Bastard secretary.
Layout: Columns approx. 100 mm. wide: 2 outer columns of text with wider third center column for lineage, except sect. 17 before "Constantine," written in 33 long lines across the sheet. Ruled across the parchment in dry point, faded vertical double bounding rules in red ink.
Decoration: Three tinted drawings in roundels: in sect. 1, 65 mm. in diameter, Adam and Eve on either side of the tree, around which is twisted the devil as a snake with a woman's head; in sect. 2, 48 mm. in diameter, Noah pruning a vine; in sect. 2, 40 mm. in diameter, a T-O world map, somewhat damaged. Genealogical lineage between the columns with portraits of kings by one artist in 2...
A roll of 5 membranes glued end to end, and now folded in 9½ double leaves, numbered into 38 sections. The first membrane badly worm-eaten and backed with muslin.
Assigned Date: s. XV3/4.
Physical Issues: Roll.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/16/2012.
Written in England after the accession of Edward IV in March 1461 and perhaps before his marriage in May 1464 (a roundel with Elizabeth not included, as in other similar manuscripts). Sold in 1917 by J. and J. Leighton to Howard C. Levis whose armorial book plate is on the front pastedown; motto, "Deo Juvante." Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862119
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:53329/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
