Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1690s], [19 cent., last ¼] (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
iii, 128 ff. (original pagination 1-252 continued to end; some folios blank) with insertions ; 190 x 150 mm.
Contemporary binding, vellum over boards. 'La Maison de Bourgogne, de Montagu, de Viennois' (label on spine).
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A volume, [1690s], of biographies, painted armorials and pedigrees of members of three reigning houses in Burgundy and their collateral branches.
It comprises the Bosonid Dynasty from Beuves d'Ardennes (822-877) to Henry I of Burgundy (948-1002), the Capetian House of Burgundy from Robert I "le Vieux", son of Robert II, king of the Franks (1011-1076), to Philip I of Burgundy (1346-1361), and the House of Valois from Philip II "le Hardi" of Burgundy (1342-1384) to Mary of Burgundy (1457-1482) (pp. 1-167); the counts of Nevers, descended from the House of Valois, from Philip of Burgundy (1389-1415), to Charlotte of Burgundy (1472-1500) (pp. 169-184); the lords of Montagu et Chagny, descended from the Capetian House of Burgundy, from Alexandre (1170-1205) to N. de Montagu (15 cent.) (pp. 185-232); and the counts of Albon and dauphins of Viennois descended from the Capetian House of Burgundy, from André or Guigues (VI) of Burgundy (1184-1237) to Anne of Burgundy, wife of Humbert I de La Tour-du-Pin (1240-1307) (pp. 235-248). There are annotations and transcripts, [19 cent., last ¼], in the hand of G. T. Clark, both in the manuscript and on new leaves tipped in (18 ff.), with other genealogical and biographical notes by him, in French English and Latin (9 ff.), filed separately.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
French, a few items in English and Latin.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 15055B.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Burgundy, House of. (Subject)
- Valois, House of. (Subject)
- Nevers, Counts of. (Subject)
- Albon, Counts of. (Subject)
- Montagu, Seigneurs de. (Subject)
- Bosonid family. (Subject)
- Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898 (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
September 2008.
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Cyprien Henry and Rhys Morgan Jones.