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Genealogy of Kings of France and England,
1470–83
French
y1932-32
The genealogical scrolls of the Middle Ages—early forerunners of the timelines and family trees familiar to us today—were displayed by noble families to proclaim the continuity of their royal bloodlines. This fragment of a fifteenth-century genealogical scroll sets French, English, Papal, and Imperial Roman histories in vertical columns. Produced in France in the aftermath of the Hundred Years War, the manuscript asserts an unbroken French royal line at a time when English kings claimed rights to the French throne. The scrolls were generally hung in the halls of their patrons; this example has been mounted on rollers and housed in a red leather box since the late nineteenth century.
Information
Title
Genealogy of Kings of France and England
Dates
1470–83
Medium
Illuminated manuscript scroll on vellum
Dimensions
437 x 69.3 cm (172 x 27 5/16 inches)
Credit Line
Gift of Margaret G. Mather
Object Number
y1932-32
Culture
Type
Materials
Dawson's.
- A check list of modern first editions together with a few rare old English firsts, (Los Angeles, CA, Dawson's Book Shop, 1932)., no. 8
- Seymour de Ricci and W.J. Wilson, Census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, (New York: The H. W. Wilson company, 1935-1940)., Vol. 2: p. 1175, no. 8
- Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., "Two manuscript rolls", Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 5, no. 1 (Spring, 1946): p. 6-9., p. 6-9; fig. 1-3 (incorrectly numbered 31-32)
- C. U. Faye and W. H. Bond, Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962)., p. 304, no. 5
