Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949343313503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/699487534
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4934331

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1425 and 1450

Place

England

Summary

A chronicle with diagram from the first reign of Henry VI tracing the descent of the kings of England from Noah, through Brut, and breaking off after the kings Kimbelinus and Arvigarus in the central line of descent and the kings Ingils and Offa in another line left of center. The birth of Christ is marked just before the end of the fragment. Earlier the line of descent on the left includes the descent of northern peoples such as the Danes, Jutes, and Geates from Steldius, also known as Scyld Scefing from the poem Beowulf. On the verso (outer surface of roll) is an 18th-century inscription, Genealogy, Noa to [the kings] of England.

Notes

• Ms. roll.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Incipit: "Iste Nemroth erat gigas ... " (text at top next to Noah roundel); "[Ab isto] Strephes filio Iapheth fratre..." (top of left column); "[Ab] hiis trib[us] filiis Noe texuntur generaciones septuaginte ..." (top of right column).
   
• Edges damaged, with some loss of text on left edge; mounted on modern vellum before sale in 2010.
   
• The same text is found in seven other manuscripts: Queen's College, Cambridge, MS. 167; College of Arms, MSS. muniment room 20/3 and 23; Bodleian, Oxford, MS. Bodleian Rolls 10; King's College, Cambridge, MS. 43; British Library, Lansdowne MS. 2; and Harley Roll c.5. The Queen's College and College of Arms rolls are most similar to UPenn Ms. Roll 1588 (Sotheby's).
   

Extent

Support

Script

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 7 December 2010, lot 16.
   

Subjects topical

• World history--Early works to 1800
• Scyld (Legendary character)

Genres

• Chronicles
• Genealogies
• Scrolls (information artifacts)
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Chronicle
• Genealogy
• Biblical
• Bible
• History
• English
• England
• Fragment

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