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Descents of the houses of Warwick and Essex (MS M.956).

Accession number
MS M.956
Object title

Descents of the houses of Warwick and Essex (MS M.956).

Created
England, 16th cent.
Binding

Vellum.

Credit line

Purchased from Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1974.

Description

6 leaves : vellum, ill. ; 451 x 476 mm

Provenance

Lord William Howard (1563-1640), Naworth, Cumberland, who signed his name and inscribed the date of 1610 on fol. 1; William H. Schab Gallery, who acquired it from a member of a collateral line of the house of Norfold, descendants of Lord Howard.

Notes

Ms. genealogical tree; written and illuminated in England in the 16th century.
A genealogical tree from the legendary Guy of Warwick (10th century) to William Beauchamp (13th century)--Cf. Seventeenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974.
The manuscript is foliated; collation: I6.
Decoration: written in black ink; 1 large miniature containing two arms, 7 large roundels with portraits, 64 shields with arms, 17 depictions of documents, 12 of which are shown with one seal, one of which has 2 seals; the trees are horizontally arranged.

Script
engrossing secretary hand
Language
English
Century
Classification