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A DISCOURSE & CATALOGUE OF ALL THE DUKES OF ENGLAND BY CREATION OR DESCENT FROM THE TIME OF THE CONQUEST, in English, decorated manuscript on vellum [England], 1600

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 214

A DISCOURSE & CATALOGUE OF ALL THE DUKES OF ENGLAND BY CREATION OR DESCENT FROM THE TIME OF THE CONQUEST, in English, decorated manuscript on vellum [England], 1600

Schätzpreis
6.000 £ - 9.000 £
ca. 7.886 $ - 11.829 $
Zuschlagspreis:
17.500 £
ca. 23.001 $
Beschreibung:

A DISCOURSE & CATALOGUE OF ALL THE DUKES OF ENGLAND BY CREATION OR DESCENT FROM THE TIME OF THE CONQUEST, in English, decorated manuscript on vellum [England], 1600 A splendid decorated pedigree roll produced during the reign of Elizabeth I, presenting the historical descent of the dukes of England: from the earliest ducal creation under Edward III – Edward, the Black Prince becomes Duke of Cornwall in 1336 – to the treacherous Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk, who inherited his ducal coronet under Elizabeth’s half-brother Edward VI. 2860 x 860mm, four conjoined vellum membranes, the title, introduction, and individual histories of 47 dukes of England contained within decorative strapwork cartouches, the ‘discourse’ for each duke linked to their respective armorial bearings by a red thread and surmounted by a ducal coronet, the painted armorials linked by a band of green and yellow indicating the king under which the dukedom was created or inherited, from Edward III to Edward VI (worming, dampstaining affecting some of the pigment in places, surface soiling most evident at both ends of the roll). Provenance : (1) The present roll was produced in England between 1600 and 1601; Robert Devereux, ‘nowe Earl of Essex, being the year of CHRIST 1600’, was executed for treason in 1601. The text appears to have been copied in part from an earlier source: a comparable version, ‘The Discourse and Catalog of all the Dukes of England by Creation or Descent since the time of the Conquest’, is printed in the second edition of Holinshed's Chronicles (1587). (2) Bonhams, 13 November 2007, lot 454. Content : Introductory text in the upper-left cartouche opening: ‘There have bene twoo ancient sayengs: the one an Italian proverb, the other an English byword’; later continuing: ‘I will from ye first creation of any Duke since ye Conquest recite the creation, discent & succession of all such Dukes of England shewing first ye time of their creation & secondly their discent as they are lineally spread out of that creation, with their mariages & issues, which follow as they came in one line, & also where these Dukes were buried and how they came by their deathes’. The roll presents the various creations and lines of inheritance for the dukedoms of Cornwall, Lancaster, Clarence, York, Gloucester, Surrey, Exeter, Ireland, Norfolk, Bedford, Somerset, Warwick, Buckingham, Suffolk, Richmond and Northumberland from Edward III to Edward IV. In addition to recording biographical information, the compiler is sometimes moved to pass moral judgement upon the lives of the dukes: on the execution of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, he notes that ‘a mans dieng day is a bill of information putting him in minde of his life well or ill spent’, while the death of the traitorous Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk concludes with the remark that ‘the higher that a man doth clime, the greater is his fall’. Perhaps a preparatory work for the 1619 production by Ralph Brooke, York Herald, the Catalogue and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles and Viscounts of this Realme of England since the Norman Conquest .

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 214
Auktion:
Datum:
11.12.2019
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London
Beschreibung:

A DISCOURSE & CATALOGUE OF ALL THE DUKES OF ENGLAND BY CREATION OR DESCENT FROM THE TIME OF THE CONQUEST, in English, decorated manuscript on vellum [England], 1600 A splendid decorated pedigree roll produced during the reign of Elizabeth I, presenting the historical descent of the dukes of England: from the earliest ducal creation under Edward III – Edward, the Black Prince becomes Duke of Cornwall in 1336 – to the treacherous Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk, who inherited his ducal coronet under Elizabeth’s half-brother Edward VI. 2860 x 860mm, four conjoined vellum membranes, the title, introduction, and individual histories of 47 dukes of England contained within decorative strapwork cartouches, the ‘discourse’ for each duke linked to their respective armorial bearings by a red thread and surmounted by a ducal coronet, the painted armorials linked by a band of green and yellow indicating the king under which the dukedom was created or inherited, from Edward III to Edward VI (worming, dampstaining affecting some of the pigment in places, surface soiling most evident at both ends of the roll). Provenance : (1) The present roll was produced in England between 1600 and 1601; Robert Devereux, ‘nowe Earl of Essex, being the year of CHRIST 1600’, was executed for treason in 1601. The text appears to have been copied in part from an earlier source: a comparable version, ‘The Discourse and Catalog of all the Dukes of England by Creation or Descent since the time of the Conquest’, is printed in the second edition of Holinshed's Chronicles (1587). (2) Bonhams, 13 November 2007, lot 454. Content : Introductory text in the upper-left cartouche opening: ‘There have bene twoo ancient sayengs: the one an Italian proverb, the other an English byword’; later continuing: ‘I will from ye first creation of any Duke since ye Conquest recite the creation, discent & succession of all such Dukes of England shewing first ye time of their creation & secondly their discent as they are lineally spread out of that creation, with their mariages & issues, which follow as they came in one line, & also where these Dukes were buried and how they came by their deathes’. The roll presents the various creations and lines of inheritance for the dukedoms of Cornwall, Lancaster, Clarence, York, Gloucester, Surrey, Exeter, Ireland, Norfolk, Bedford, Somerset, Warwick, Buckingham, Suffolk, Richmond and Northumberland from Edward III to Edward IV. In addition to recording biographical information, the compiler is sometimes moved to pass moral judgement upon the lives of the dukes: on the execution of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, he notes that ‘a mans dieng day is a bill of information putting him in minde of his life well or ill spent’, while the death of the traitorous Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk concludes with the remark that ‘the higher that a man doth clime, the greater is his fall’. Perhaps a preparatory work for the 1619 production by Ralph Brooke, York Herald, the Catalogue and Succession of the Kings, Princes, Dukes, Marquesses, Earles and Viscounts of this Realme of England since the Norman Conquest .

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 214
Auktion:
Datum:
11.12.2019
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London
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