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Detailed record for Arundel 149
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| Title |
Ordo Coronationis (fragment) |
| Origin |
England, S. E. (London) |
| Date |
2nd half of the 15th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic cursive, with musical notation on 4-line red staves |
| Decoration |
Three-sided foliate borders and large foliate initials, in colours and gold (ff. 1, 5v, 7v, 15, 17v, 20v). 2 large foliate initials, in colours and gold, with foliate extensions into the margins (ff. 23, 29v). Small initials in gold with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Line-fillers in gold and blue. |
| Dimensions in mm |
315 x 215 (220 x 140) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. 30 (+ 2 modern paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 2 at the end) |
| Collation |
i8 (ff. 1-8), ii1 (last leaf of a missing quire, f. 9), iii8 (ff. 10-17), iv4+1 (5th leaf inserted, f. 22; ff. 18-22), v8 (ff. 23-30); [quire(s) missing]. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
? 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).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. |
| Notes |
A late medieval foliation in brown ink runs from '57' to '69', and [192]-'205'; last quire (ff.23-30) without original foliation, finishing 'Explicit'. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part 1: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 39. |
| Last revised: 02 December 2005 |
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f. 7v
Foliate initial |
f. 7v
Detail: Foliate initial |
f. 17v
Foliate initial and border |
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f. 17v
Detail: Foliate initial |
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