BIB_ID
81810
Accession number
MA 1251
Display Date
16th cent.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Description
1 item (71 p.), bound ; 27 cm
Notes
Preceded by a table of contents.
Formerly bound with Albertano da Brescia's Le livre de Melibée et de Prudence (MS M.39).
Formerly bound with Albertano da Brescia's Le livre de Melibée et de Prudence (MS M.39).
Provenance
John E. Kerr Collection (catalogue, 1903, p. 7, no. 1); purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Kerr Collection in 1903.
Summary
Emblazoned arms of 70 British families. Being a series of black ink drawings of coats of arms, flanked by supporter animals and crowned by coronets and/or helms and/or crests, with decorative mantling. Not all the coats of arms have mottoes. Several have numbered lists of names below them. The first four coats of arms have been hand colored.
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