Accession number:
MS W.43
Title:
Rew and perfecte roule.
Created:
1628.
Binding:
17th-century round leather case, gold tooled with acorn motifs.
Credit:
Bequest of Julia Parker Wightman, 1994.
Description:
1 scroll (5 sections attached end to end) : vellum, ill. ; 150 x 3655 mm.
Provenance:
Purchased by Julia Parker Wightman in 1969; JPW 6675; Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.
Notes:
Ms. heraldic scroll; written and illuminated in England in 1628. Entitled: A Trew and Perfecte Roule of all Nobilitie of England...since the tyme of William the Conquerer, as those that are of later Creations...in ANNO 1628.
Decoration: 138 coats of arms in colors and gold. Title inscribed within a cartouche.
Script:
cursive.
Language:
In English;
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