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Detailed record for Arundel 150
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| Author |
Roger of Hoveden |
| Title |
Annales |
| Origin |
England |
| Date |
2nd half of the 13th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic, written below top line |
| Decoration |
1 puzzle initial in red and blue with red and blue pen-flourishing (f. 1). Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing, and in blue with red pen-flourishing. 1 large marginal image of a pennant (f. 41v). 1 diagram in red and green with a cross (f. 64v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
320 x 225 (240 x 150) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 130 ( + 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning at at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1963. |
| Provenance |
Lord William Howard (b. 1563, d. 1640), antiquary and landowner, the younger son of Thomas Howard (b. 1538, d. 1572), 4th duke of Norfolk: inscribed: ‘William Howarde' (f. 1), and 'W. How' (f. 128v); his replacement parchment folios 11-12, and 24-35, and additional text f. 128-128v in humanistic cursive script; an ink lion rampant (f. 1).
? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 1); its book-plate (inside upper cover, with the pencil inscription 'XV: 3.18').
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part I: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 39.
Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Hovedene, ed. by William Stubbs, Rolls Series, 51 (London, 1868), p. lxxxii.
Antonia Gransden, Historical Writing in England, 2 vols, (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974-1982), I, c. 550 to c. 1307, p. 226.
D. R. Howlett, ' A St Albans Historical Miscellany of the Fifteenth Century', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 69 (1974), 195-200 (p. 200 n. 11). |
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f. 41v
Pennant and decorated initials |
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