Abstract
An inventory of about 1578, purchased in 1995 by the British Library, describes the contents of one of the greatest medieval and Elizabethan houses, then the principal seat of Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, and the setting of the best known and most ambitious of the revels which were staged on her famous progresses. Made within three years of this event, it offers an unusually rich insight into the material culture of the Elizabethan elite. It specifies weights, dimensions, materials, colour, decorative motifs and subject matter, in particular of about 50 paintings and more than 20 maps. It casts light on four major portraits of the queen and the earl of Leicester, including two (now lost) by the Italian mannerist Federico Zuccaro.
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