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Heraldic manuscript of the English kings and peers
Title
Heraldic manuscript of the English kings and peers.
Created
England, [circa 1620]
Physical Description
236 p. : paper ; 280 x 183 mm.
Language
English
Notes
Spine title: Arms of the Nobility of England. MS. 1042-1619.
Script: English secretary hand.
Decoration: more than 600 emblazoned coats of arms, in full color.
Binding: nineteenth-century full polished calf, by Clarke & Bedford.
In English.
Provenance
Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of a genealogy of the rulers of England from Brutus and Julius Caesar to James I, containing short biographies of each individual and illustrated with their emblazoned coats of arms.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 25, 2014
References
A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Heraldic Manuscript of the English Kings and Peers. Takamiya MS 13.
Cite as
Heraldic Manuscript of the English Kings and Peers. Takamiya MS 13.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Coats of arms - Great Britain - 17th century.
Genealogies (histories) - England - 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance - England - 17th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance - Great Britain - 17th century.
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