Category talk:Flores Historiarum

Identifying the pic sources

• Bridgeman has the sources of many of the pics: [1]
• Hollaender (1944) has b/w photos of the Chetham illustrations: The pictorial work in the "Flores Historiarum" of the so-called Matthew of Westminster. (Ms. Chetham 6712)

Other MSS

Vaughan (1958) discussion the textual formation of "Ch" and "E": [2]

According to Judith Collard (2008) [3], there are ten surviving illuminated versions of the work from the second half of the 13th century.

"They follow the pattern established in Chetham MS 6712 that consists of a series of images of kings that begin with Arthur, but focus in particular on Edward the Confessor and the post-conquest monarchy. Most representations show coronation scenes..."

Collard's list:

• Manchester: Chetham MS 6712 - "Ch"
  • webpage
• Eton College MS 123 - "E"
  • M.R. James catalogue (1895): [4]
• BL Arundel MS 96
  • Catalogue entry: Arundel MS 96
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• BL Royal MS 14 C VI
  • Catalogue entry: Royal MS 14 C VI
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• BL Cotton MS Nero D II "Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral Priory, AM 1–AD 1377", fols 2-214

  Category:The Rochester Chronicle (14th C) - BL Cotton MS Nero D II

  • Catalogue entry: Cotton MS Nero D II
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• Westminster Abbey MS 24
• Oxford, Bodleian: MS Laud Misc 572
• Oxford, Bodleian: MS Hatton 53
• Oxford, Bodleian: MS Bodley 912
• Private coll: A Chester Beatty MS 70
  • sold 1968: [5]

Later MSS include this, cut from an earlier version of the en-wiki Matthew Paris article:

• Flores Historiarum Huntington Library, Berkeley, California, HM 30319 [6] Digital Scriptorium - Not by Paris, a 15th-century Ms of the Chronicle he continued, before starting his own. Not heavily illuminated.

Jheald (talk) 16:08, 2 April 2014 (UTC)