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De officio militari : and other works
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Title
De officio militari : and other works.
Created
England, [ca. 1500]
Physical Description
ca. 225 p. : parchment ; 350 x 245 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Ownership inscription at top of first page: "William Howard 1591."
Bookseller's printed description pasted in on front pastedown.
Script: each work in a different professional book hand.
Decoration: Headings and initial letters in red and blue; decorated throughout with more than 270 emblazoned coats of arms in colors.
Binding: modern parchment over boards, rebacked.
De officio in Latin; other texts in French and English.
Provenance
Ex libris Lord William Howard. Formerly owned by H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence. Formerly owned by Alan G. Thomas. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript, on parchment, of this work on heraldry, chivalry and the laws of war. Bound with two illustrated heraldic treatises copied from printed editions: Sensuyt le blason des armes (Lyons: Claude Nourry, 1527) and Treatyses perteynyng to coatarmour (Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1496).
Variant and related titles
De studio militari
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
October 09, 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.
NIcholas Upton, De officio militari (Takamiya MS 86). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
NIcholas Upton, De officio militari (Takamiya MS 86). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Coats of arms - Great Britain - 16th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 16th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance - England - 16th century.
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