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Detailed record for Harley 7353
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| Title |
Typological life and genealogy of Edward IV |
| Origin |
England |
| Date |
1460 - c. 1470 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
Five pairs of large miniatures in colours, pairing an event of Edward's career on the right with its biblical type or precedent on the left, including an allegorical representation of Edward's success and the fulfilment of all prophecies and below, genealogical tree of Edward IV including kings in the form of a tree of Jesse, with Henry III reclining at the bottom and Edward IV and Henry VI emerging as opponents at the top. |
| Dimensions in mm |
1750 x 535 |
| Official foliation |
Unfoliated |
| Form |
Parchment roll |
| Binding |
Roll format, unbound |
| Provenance |
? A Dominican house in Gloucester: see Sutton p. 139.
Sold as part of the Harley collection to Parliament by the Countess of Oxford, widow of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, and their daughter, the Duchess of Portland, in 1753 and incorporated into the newly founded British Museum. |
| Notes |
Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts. |
| Select bibliography |
John Warkworth, Chronicle ed. with notes by J. O Haliwell (London: Camden Society, 1839), p. 62.
Charles L. Kingsford, English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913; repr. New York: Franklin, 1972), p. 165.
Anthony Cheetham, The Life and Times of Richard III (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1972), pl. on p. 13.
Alison Allan, 'Yorkist Propaganda: Pedigree, prophecy and the 'British History' in the Reign of Edward IV' in Patronage, Pedigree and Power in Later Medieval England, ed. by Charles Ross (Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1979), pp. 171-92.
Kathleen L. Scott, ‘Design, Decoration and Illustration’, in Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375-1475 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 31-64 (p. 59 n. 47).
A. J. Pollard, Richard III and the Princes (UK: Alan Sutton, 1991), p.40.
Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, Richard III’s Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1997), pp. 138, 197 n. 37, pls 64, 66.
Raluca Radulescu, 'The Political Mentality of the English Gentry at the End of the Fifteenth Century', in New Europe College Yearbook, 8 (2000-2001), 355-389 (pp. 369).
Maree Shirota, ‘Neither Roll nor Codex: Accordion Genealogies of the Kings of England from the Fifteenth Century’ in The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages, ed. by Stefan Holz, Jorg Peltzer and Maree Shirota (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019), pp. 263-88 (p. 267, n.25).
Sonja Drimmer, 'A Political Poster in Late Medieval England: British Library, Harley MS 7353', in Harlaxton Medieval Studies Volume XXX, Performance, Ceremony and Display in Late Medieval Britain: Proceedings of the 2018 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. by Julia Boffey (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020), 333-59. |
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