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Eulogium historiarum. Book V (incomplete)
Uniform Title
Eulogium historiarum. Book V.
Title
Eulogium historiarum. Book V (incomplete).
Created
England, between 1375 and 1400.
Physical Description
ii (paper) + 63 (parchment) + ii (paper) leaves : parchment and paper ; 290 mm x 190 mm
Language
Latin
Notes
Layout: single columns of 37-38 lines.
Script: gothic bookhand.
Decoration: two 5- to 6-line initials in burnished gold with purple pen-flourishing (ff. 1r, 10r); 2- to 6-line intials in red or blue with contrasting pen-flourishing, and some with human faces; 1-line initials in red or blue; capitals stroked in red. Marginal glosses decorated in red.
Binding: late 18th-century quarter leather over marbled pasteboards, spine gilt-stamped with flowers and decorative patterns and with title "ANTIQ. BRIT. HIST. MSS. | COD. SEC. XIV. | MUS. BAPT. BRISTOL | GIFFORD."
Secundo folio: Post.
Medieval foliation from 156 to 238, skipping numbers 190-199 and 222 by mistake. Marginal annotations in Latin in 15th- and 16th-century hands.
Bookseller descriptions available.
In Latin.
Provenance
Previously owned by Henry Justice. Justice sale, van Daalen, 1763 October 31, lot 1485. Armorial bookplate of Andrew Gifford. Bequeathed to Bristol Baptist College, their armorial bookplate. Sotheby's sale, 1991 December 17, lot 65. Sotheby's sale, 2014 December 02, lot 47. Purchased from Les Enluminures on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2016.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Illuminated manuscript on parchment, incomplete, of a presentation copy of the Eulogium historiarum, Book V. One leaf wanting after f. 10r and one quire after f.15r. Ends imperfectly at the death of St. Edmund Rich in 1240, which corresponds to Book V, chapters 1-128, with gaps, of Haydon edition.
The Eulogium historiarum is a universal chronicle from the Creation to 1366 written in five books in Latin prose, probably by a monk at Malmesbury Abbey in Wiltshire. Book V presents the history of England from the legendary foundation of Britain to 1366 and relies on Geoffrey of Monmouth, William of Malmesbury, and the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
March 30, 2022
Indexed in its entirety by:
Haydon, Frank Scott. Eulogium (historiarum sive temporis): Chronicon ab orbe condito usque ad annum domini M.CCC.LXVI, a monacho quodam Malmesburiensi exaratum, 3 vols., Rolls Series 9, London, 1858-1863.
References
Eulogium Historiarum. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Eulogium Historiarum. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations (Provenance) - 15th century.
Annotations (Provenance) - 16th century.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Illuminated manuscripts.
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 14th century.
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