Founder's and benefactors' book of Tewkesbury Abbey — 16th century, beginning; English, Tewkesbury | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Founder's and benefactors' book of Tewkesbury Abbey — 16th century, beginning; English, Tewkesbury

Shelfmark

MS. Top. Glouc. d. 2

Place of origin

English, Tewkesbury

Date

16th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Founder's and benefactors' book of Tewkesbury Abbey

(fol.2–5 line 8) Extracts from a narrative cartulary giving an account of the abbey and its benefactors, beginning c.1000 and ending with the death of Isabel, wife of Gilbert de Clare [d.1239/40], followed (fol.5 lines 9–17) by two genealogical notes

(fol.5 line 18 – 5v, 42v–45v) An overlapping set of extracts from the same source c.1000 to 1109, written in imitation 13th cent. script

(fol.6–7v) Charter of William fitz Count, with his portrait

(fol.8–40v) Chronicle of founders and benefactors, pr. from MS. Cotton Cleop. A. VII (Davis), another version with slight differences, in Dugdale Monasticon, II.59–65. There are 24 crude portraits with arms, including three pre-Conquest patrons and a continuous series of patrons from Robert fitz Hamon to Richard, earl of Warwick, with some ladies, and also Robert Chandos, founder of Goldcliff.

(fol.41–2) Quartered arms of George, duke of Clarence, patron of the abbey followed by an illustrated explanation of the quarterings. On fol.1v is a note on properties once belonging to the abbey.

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Hands

Several hands; one is a good secretary hand (fols. 6–7v, 12 (inserted slip), 22, 28, 37–40v); another imitates at 13th cent. hand (see under Contents)

Decoration

Good miniatures, arms. Copies of an earlier manuscript (?). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1177, pl. CVIII). 22 half-page and two full-page portraits, many coats of arms.

Binding

19th cent. binding.

Acquisition

Bequeated by him, 1938.

Provenance

Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin: Charters with historical notes, adorned with coloured drawings. Cf. Trans. Bristol and Glos. Archaeol. Soc. 33, with emendations in BLR 1 (1938), pp. 14–15 [by I. G. Philip]. (MLGB3: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.).

Sir Edw. Grevell. Robert, Lord Spencer. Baron Wormleighton. Lady Fane. Baroness le Despencer. The Earls of Westmoreland. Bequeathed to Bodley by the late Rev. C. H. B. Hudson 1938. (MLGB3)

Johannes Ewisham hunc librum fecit fieri (fol. 1v). A man of this name received a pension as subchanter in 1540; see Mon. Angl. II.83.

Edward Grevell: Sir Edward Grevell of Milcote (d. 1559) (fol. 1v)

Robert, Lord Spencer, of Wormleighton

Given by him to Mary, Baroness le Despencer (fol. 1v)

John Fane, 17th Earl of Westmorland (d. 1859) (bookplate)

C. H. Bickerton Hudson.

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Title

Founders and benefactors book of Tewkesbury abbey

Shelfmark

MS. Top. Glouc. d. 2

Summary

Founders and benefactors book of Tewkesbury abbey, in Latin, on vellum, early 16th century.

Associated place

Gloucester (England)

Date

early 16th century

Language

Latin

Physical facet

19th-century brown morocco

Physical extent

49 Leaves

Custodial history

Made for Joannes E[wis]ham (erased inscription on fol. iv); owned by Sir Edward Grevell of Milcote (d. 1559); given by Robert Spencer, Lord Spencer (1570-1627) to Mary Fane, Baroness Ie Despencer; booklabel of John Fane, 17th Earl of Westmorland, 1857.

Acquisition

Bequeathed by C. H. B. Hudson, 1938.

Subject

Church records and registers

Local history

16th century

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