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MS. Ash. Rolls 21

Summary Catalogue no.: 7081

Former shelfmark: MS. Ashmole 25

Genealogy of the Kings of England from William I to Henry VI, illustrated with verses and medallions

Language(s): Latin and Anglo-Norman

Physical Description

Form: roll

Support: parchment

Decoration

Miniatures (coloured drawings). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 983)

Fifteen medallions with ink and wash portraits of the kings of England, starting with William the Conqueror and ending with Henry VI.

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; English

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. H. Black, A descriptive, analytical, and critical catalogue of the manuscripts bequeathed unto the University of Oxford by Elias Ashmole Esq...., Quarto Catalogues X, 1845). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973).

Quarto Catalogue X, col. 11 (no. 25)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 2, p. 1127