• Genealogical chronicle roll

Extent:

• 1 roll : parchment ; 1400 x 135 mm

Date:

• 1377

Language:

• Latin

Description:

• Genealogical chronicle roll of the kings of England from Alfred the Great (r. 871-899) to Richard II (r. 1377-1399).
• Script: Anglicana. Written by one scribe, who also made one substantial correction.
• Decoration: The roll has 102 roundels (2 blank), among which 27 have the names of kings and are surmounted by crowns and connected by lines in brown ink.

Binding note:

• The end of the roll is attached to a wooden dowel (modern) by means of a slip of newer parchment. Stored in a custom drop-spine box.

Provenance:

• Princeton MS. 211 is of unknown early and intermediate provenance. There is an 18th-century inscription on the dorse, at the top of the chronicle roll: “Genealogies of the Kings of England, MS. 1380.” Modern annotation in pencil, “RT42.” The roll appears to have been in the antiquarian bookmarket since the early 1970s. On 4 June 2008 the roll was sold at Christie's, London. It was purchased by Sandra Hindman (Les Enluminures, Paris, Chicago), who sold it to the Princeton University Library in 2009 (Acc. no. 2009-80).

Contributor:

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 211

References:

• Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, page 499.

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99115511433506421