| Notes: | Manuscript codex.
Title from caption of chapter 1 (page 1).
Date of production inferred from reference to the Feast of St. George, May 28-30, 1674 (page 141).
Includes index.
Collation: Paper, fol. i (flyleaf) + 140 (paginated i-vi, 1-274 ; pagination for i-vi and 212-274 in 20th-century pencil, pagination for 1-211 given in the scribe's hand, pages 221-260 also paginated 1-40 in the scribe's hand) ; horizontal catchwords in lower right margin.
Layout: Written in approximately 30-32 long lines; unruled.
Script: Written in mixed Secretary-Italic hand.
Binding: mid 20th-century quarter brown morocco with brown cloth over boards; brown morocco lettering piece; red and blue sprinkled edges; binding signed: Carolyn Horton.
Origin: Compiled in England in the late 17th century. The unidentified compiler borrowed a great deal from Elias Ashmole, Institution, laws, and ceremonies of the most noble order of the Garter (London, 1672), made extensive use of the Statutes of the Realm, and cited such printed sources as Peter Heylyn, The historie of ... St. George of Cappadocia ... [and] the institutions of the most noble order of the Garter (2nd edition: London, 1633) and William Camden, Britannia (London, 1586). The compiler also had access to the private registers of the Order of the Garter, including the "Black Book," the "Sky-Blue Book," the "Red Book," the "Liber Carolinis," and drew from the papers and notes of influential persons intimately connected with the Order, including Sir Henry St. George the elder, Sir Edward Walker, and Matthew Wren. The scribe has added marginal notes and corrections to the text, and has crossed out text on page 1.
Former shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, CR4827.I6.
Shelfmark: Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Library, Ms796.
Text in English and with Order statutes in Latin.
Cataloged with item in hand by Rebecca Flore, November 16, 2023.
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| Summary: | Extracts and citations from many sources pertaining to the Order of the Garter, its history and membership, and containing information about the ordinances, customs, functions, ceremonies, and wages of the officers and knights of the Order. Also includes a fair copy of Order statutes, composed in Latin by Matthew Wren and dated 1631. With a table of contents, index, and marginal annotations.
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