by Michael Townsend (Collections Librarian)
Title: Ceremonial de la coronación, unción y exequias de los reyes de Inglaterra
Author: Pieter Christiaanszoon Bor
Imprint: Pamplona : Gobierno de Navarra, 2008. (2 v.)
Location: Classmark: B.2961/Ram
This title provides us with a facsimile of Codex B2, ff. 23 from the Archivo General de Navarra. This richly illustrated work provides us with an insight into the nature of the English coronation ceremony from the reign of Richard II. As Prof. Given-Wilson highlights in the book of studies which accompanies the facsimile, this manuscript is largely a copy of the English coronation ordo found in the Litlyngton Missal and the Liber regalis. [1]
As well as the facsimile itself, the work includes a Latin transcript with a facing Spanish translation as well as a number of essays discussing the nature of the coronation ceremony not only in England, but also Castile, Aragon and Navarre, as well as Europe as a whole.
Other titles on the nature of the coronation ceremony in Great Britain can be found at classmark B.2961 including:
- Legg, J. Wickham (ed.) Three coronation orders (London: Harrison and Son, 1900)
- English coronation records (London: A. Constable & Co., 1901)
- Liber regalis seu ordo consecrandi regem solum…e codice Westmonasteriensi editus (London: J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1870)
- Taylor, Arthur, The glory of regality: an historical treatise of the anointing and crowning of the kings and queens of England (London: R. & A. Taylor, 1820)