Descents of the houses of Warwick and Essex
Accession number:
MS M.956
Title:
Descents of the houses of Warwick and Essex
Created:
England, 16th cent.
Binding:
Vellum.
Credit:
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
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