- Alternative Title
- Statutes of the Order of the Garter, in Thirteen Chapters
- Subject
- Charters, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Order of the Garter
- Creator
- Edward VI, King of England, 1537-1553
- Language
- eng
- Date created
- 1500s
- Resource Type
- Text
- Identifier
- Shelf Mark: Ms.Brown.Eng.1
- Extent
- 32 pages; vellum; plus frontspiece; 23 x 17 x 205 cm (pages 220 x 158 mm) 272 leave s, quarto [180x133mm], bound in later r ed morocco gilt.
- Geographic Coverage
- England
- Coordinates
- 52.16045,-0.70312
- Additional Physical Characteristics
- 26 lines to a page, ruled in red, written in dark brown ink in a calligraphic secretary hand with some flourishes, forty-seven illuminated initials (one 4-line, three 3-line, the rest 2-line) in gold, red and blue with white tracery, illuminated frontispiece with the...
- Physical Repository
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection
- Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
- Provenance
- Donated by Bruce and Dorothy Brown.
- Provider
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre
- illuminated manuscripts
- Archival Item Identifier
- 1989-069-8
- Fonds Title
- Bruce and Dorothy Brown collection
- Fonds Identifier
- SC017
- Date Digitized
- 2019-10-23/2019-10-24
- Transcript
- Transcription and description by Sydney Terepocki and Luke Oldfield, as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (ENGL), April 2015, is available here : https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/documents/ms-brown-eng-1.pdf
- Technical Note
- Scanned on Betterlight/TTI at 600 dpi TIFF (1/20;303 (some at 283);copy 4 stops; camera height 500) Item scanned in acrylic cradle and mylar used to hold pages down during scans. Work completed 23-24 Oct 2019 - PD. Metadata by KD.