Armorial : manuscript written and decorated : [England], [ca. 1550-1563].

Record ID: 
80849
Accession number: 
MA 3318
Credit: 
Gift of Mrs. George H. Fitch, 1978.
Description: 
1 item (68 unnumbered folios) ; 26.6 cm
Notes: 

The manuscript is undated; the dates provided in the record are from notes in the accession record.

Summary: 

Emblazoned arms of 64 British families. Being a series of hand-colored black ink drawings of coats of arms, flanked by supporter animals and crowned by coronets and/or helms and/or crests, with decorative mantling. One coat of arms has a motto. Many have numbered lists below and on the facing page; others have unnumbered lists.

Binding: 
Brown leather, rebound, incorporating original materials; blind tooled.
Provenance: 
Mrs. George H. Fitch.