BIB_ID
104260
Accession number
MA 960
Display Date
1597 or later.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1919.
Description
1 item (124 p.), bound ; 31.8 cm
Notes
Formerly identified in the Morgan's catalog as The Baron Book (i.e., Robert Cooke's Armorie of nobiliti).
With two notes on armory on the front flyleaf (first note is from Guillim's Display of Heraldrie) and a quote from Ovid on the back flyleaf.
Written primarily in secretary hand with blazons in a later italic hand.
With two notes on armory on the front flyleaf (first note is from Guillim's Display of Heraldrie) and a quote from Ovid on the back flyleaf.
Written primarily in secretary hand with blazons in a later italic hand.
Provenance
"Mounsier Guillim" written on front flyleaf; thought by Sir Thomas Phillipps to have been owned by the antiquarian Sir John Mohun ("Mohuns [illegible]" written below full-page arms on p. 2); "John Hunt [illegible] 1795" written front flyleaf and John Hunt (in another hand) written on the original vellum wrapper; Sir Thomas Phillipps (his MS 11934); purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from the London dealer Quaritch in 1919.
Summary
Emblazoned arms of British rulers and nobles, in chronological order, beginning with a noble who "came to England w[i]th w[illia]m Conquerer" through one created Earl "sondaye the 23th [sic] of october in the yeare of our Lord god 1597." Each entry features a shield painted with arms; a short account of the bearer's entry into England, notable achievements, famous ancestors/descendants, and investiture into peerage (secretary hand in dark brown ink); and a blazon (later italic hand in black ink). Monarchs' arms represented larger than others,' and centered on page, without descriptions.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (33.7 cm)
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