The Anthony Roll.

The Anthony Roll is a rocord of ships of the English Tudor navy of the 1540s, named after it's creator, Anthony Anthony. It originally consisted of three rolls of vellum, depicting 58 naval vessels along with information on their size, crew, armament, and basic equipment

The rolls were presented to King Henry VIII in 1546, and were kept in the royal library. In 1680 Charles II

gave two of the rolls to Samuel Pepys, who had them cut up and made into a single volume, which is now in the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The third roll remained in the royal collection

until it was given by William IV to his daughter, Mary Fox, who sold it to the British Museum in 1858; it is now owned by the British Library. The Anthony Roll is the only known fully illustrated inventory of ships if the English navy in the Tudor period. while the inventories listed in its text have proven to be highly accurate, most of the ship illustrations are rudimentary and made according to a set forrmular. The only known contemporary depictions of prominent Tudor vessels like the Henry Grace a Dieu and the Mary Rose are contained in the Anthony Roll.

   Since the Mary Rose sank by accident in 1545 and was successfully salvaged in the 1982, comparison between the information in the Roll and the physical evidence of the Mary Rose has provided new insights into the study of the naval history of the period.