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