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Title

Authors

• Cooke, Robert, -1592

Other related names

• Cosman, Madeleine Pelner, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942186163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/176198181
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4218616

Publisher

Origin

Date

circa 1572-1573

Place

England

Summary

Genealogy of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, tracing his descent from the earls of Leicester and Chester, beginning with individuals of the 11th and 12th centuries, and providing the heraldic devices of the principal members of these families. Although the genealogy may have been compiled in association with Robert Dudley's appointment as lieutenant of the Order of the Garter in 1572 or the birth of his illegitimate son in 1574, Robert Dudley is mentioned in the introduction but does not appear within the genealogy, as noted in a late 16th- or early 17th-century hand (f. 18r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from opening rubric (f. 1v); a faded spine title in ink refers to the Earle of Leycestre and another faded title on the upper cover refers to the Earls of Leycester and Chester with a later addition specifically naming John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, father of Robert Dudley.
   
• A copy of Barbara McGeoch's 1974 MA thesis, including an edition of the manuscript, is shelved with the manuscript.
   

Watermark

Extent

Collation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Miniature of two knights bearing shields with the emblems of Leicester and Chester (f. 2r); 25 small and 2 large (f. 14v, f. 17v) heraldic shields of the descendants of the earls of Leicester and Chester; and an illuminated border throughout formed by the family tree that passes through the heraldic shields and roundels with the names of principal family members, painted in a naturalistic style with leaves resembling elm and oak foliage.

Script

Provenance

• Sold to H. P. Kraus by a London book dealer before 1964; consigned by Kraus to Sotheby's, 1964.
   
• Sold to Madeleine Pelner Cosman by Sotheby's, 1964.
   
• Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2007.
   

Subjects topical

• Heraldry--England--Early works to 1800
• Nobility--England--History

Genres

• Codices
• Genealogies
• Illuminated manuscripts
• Manuscripts, English--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• English
• England
• Illumination
• History
• Paper
• Genealogy

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 2r — Miniature, Two knights, f. 1r
• fol. 18r — Owner note, f. 18r