English Brasses, Walters Art Museum MS. W.769

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A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.769, English Brasses Title: Brass rubbings

Published by: The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/

Released under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2013


This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.


Shelf mark

Walters Art Museum Ms. W.769

Descriptive Title

English Brasses

Text title

Brass rubbings

Author

As-written name: Woodcock, John

Abstract

Calligrapher John Woodcock handwrote, illustrated, and bound this book on English brasses. The manuscript contains drawings of brass rubbings of many knights and nobles, including Sir John d'Abernon, Thomas de Hope, and Nichol de Gore, as well as noblewomen such as the wives of Reginald de Malyns, Nicholas Wadham, and Nicholas Wotton. The names and dates in the titles for the images are based directly on the green ink inscriptions accompanying the illuminations.

Date

Dated 1949 CE

Origin

Kingsweed, Surrey, England

Artist

As-written name: Woodcock, John

Scribe

As-written name: Woodcock, John

Form

Book

Genre

Historical

Language

The primary language in this manuscript is English.

Colophon

fol. 8r: Transliteration: Written & illuminated & bound by John Woodcock 1949

Support material

Paper White bond paper; watermark "J Green"

Extent

Foliation: 12 Eight numbered folios; one blank folio in front and three blank folios in back are unfoliated, but integral to quire structure and therefore not flyleaves; modern pencil foliation in upper right corners of rectos

Collation

Formula: 1(12)

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Catchwords: None Signatures: None Comments: Manuscript comprised of one single large quire Dimensions

28.3 cm wide by 39.0 cm high

Contents

fols. 1r - 8v: Title: Brass rubbings Contents: Brasses of English nobles; each illustration with description of English brasses during particular time period Hand note: Text in adapted versals Decoration note: Manuscript comprised of drawings of brass rubbings; black ink with yellow tint; seven initials with raised or burnished gold; black ink headings in Roman capitals; green ink used for captions

Decoration

Upper board outside: Title: Sir John d'Aubernoun the Younger on upper board outside Form: Brass rubbing mounted on upper board fol. 1r: Title: Thomas de Hope Form: Drawings of brass rubbings fol. 2r: Title: Jon Mulsho and his wife Joan Form: Drawings of brass rubbings fol. 3r: Title: Bishop Yso von Wilpe at Verden, Hanover, 1231 Form: Drawings of brass rubbings fol. 3v: Title: Sir John d'Abernon at Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey Form: Drawings of brass rubbings fol. 4r: Title: Sir Robert de Setvans, Chartham, Kent, 1306 Form: Drawings of brass rubbings

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fol. 4v: Title: Reginald de Malyns and his two wives, at Chinnor, Oxfordshire, 1385 Form: Drawings of brass rubbings fol. 5r: Title: Pictorial compartment below the feet of Adam de Waisokne, 1349, King's Lynn, Norfolk Form: Drawings of brass rubbings fol. 5v: Title: Sir Nicolas Hawberk, 1407, third husband of Lady Joan Cobham, Cobham, Kent Form: Drawings of brass rubbings fol. 6r: Title: Illustrations (from left to right) include Nicholas Wotton with his wife and family, 1490, at Boughton Malherbe, Kent; two knights and two ladies, 1490-1510, at Writtle, Essex Form: Drawings of brass rubbings fol. 6v: Title: Robert Langton DCL, 1518, Queen's College, Oxford Form: Drawings of brass rubbings fol. 7r: Title: Thomas Hawkins, Broughton-under-Blean, Kent, 1587 Form: Drawings of brass rubbings fol. 7v: Title: Sir Nicholas Wadham and his wife Dorothie, 1618 Form: Drawings of brass rubbings fol. 8r: Title: Colophon with Nichol de Gore, priest, 1320, Woodchurch, Kent Form: Drawings of brass rubbings Lower board outside: Title: Sir John D'Aubernoun on outside lower board Form: Brass rubbing mounted on lower board

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Binding

The binding is original. Original hand-made, hot-pressed wove tan paper; black Nigerian goat quarter cardboard cover; two rubbings from Stoke d'Abernon, Surrey adorn front and back covers

Provenance

John Woodcock (1924-2011) of Kingsweed, Surrey; manuscript completed 1949; see colophon (fol. 8r)

Acquisition

Gift of John Woodcock, 1960

Contributors

Catalogers: Bucca, Lauren; Dutschke, Consuelo; Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editor: Herbert, Lynley Copy editor: Joyal, Stephanie Conservators: Owen, Linda; Quandt, Abigail Contributors: Bockrath, Diane; Emery, Doug; Noel, William; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.

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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.


The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/

Released under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2013


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