[Manual of Heradry].

Accession number: 
MS S.11
Title: 
[Manual of Heradry].
Created: 
France, 17th century
Binding: 
Limp vellum.
Credit: 
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Description: 
84 leaves (2 coats of arms to a page), bound : paper, ill. ; 222 x 159 mm.
Provenance: 
Pasted inside front cover, typed description of the manuscript, with British spelling of the word coloured; E. Clark Stillman Collection.
Notes: 

Ms. drawn, painted, captioned in France, seventeenth century (inscribed on one of the coats of arms, a silver bell on a blue field, the letters MAR . C . V. 1630).
Decoration: 168 armorial devices (coats of arms, drawn in brown ink and colored in opaque paint, probably gouache)
Watermark on most folios but hardly possible to make out.

Script: 
cursive
Language: 
French
Century: 
Classification: