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Collection of Flemish and French armorials and other manuscripts, 1557.

BIB_ID
102848
Accession number
MA 1636
Display Date
1557.
Credit line
Purchased, 1955.
Description
1 item (191 leaves), bound : ill. (col.) ; 21 cm
Notes
Dated 1557 at the beginning of the volume.
Provenance
Purchased from Paris dealer Marcel Destombes, 1955.
Summary
f. 1-76: Corneille Gaillaert (or Gailliard). Le blason des armes. Manuscript written in Bruges, 1557. f. 81-102: Frere Jacques Le grand, religieux de l'Ordre de St. Augustin: De lestal des Seigneurs temporals (part of his Livre de bonnes moeurs). f. 106: Status et ordonances des heraulx darmes et comment on doit couronner messire Monjoye le roy darmes. Manuscript written by a French scribe, with a section on the election and coronation of an emperor. f. 138: Les dits des philosophes. f. 162: Les troys personnes deglise plus haultes et plus dignes. f. 164v: Thoison d'Or, councillor to the Duke of Burgundy, writing about armory. f. 166v: Letter to Thomas, Duke of Gloucester constable of England, concerning the order of combat.