Record ID:
81810
Accession number:
MA 1251
Credit:
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).
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.
Binding:
Modern blue cloth.
Provenance:
John E. Kerr Collection (catalogue, 1903, p. 7, no. 1); purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Kerr Collection in 1903.
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