Harvard University, MS Typ 549
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS11026
- Shelfmark:
- MS Typ 549
- Title:
- Receuil des principaux seigneurs, qui passerent la mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d'Angleterre; & de plusieurs autres, qui apres le deces dudict Guillaume, se retirerent en Angleterre & quelz honneurs & estatz ilz ont eu en la cour des roys dudict païs jusques apresent ; ensemble les gestes, alliances genealogiques, mariages, & armaries des duc, marquis, comtes, vicomtes, & barons estans de...
- Bénard, Jean
- Date:
- 1568 Jan. 1.
- Language:
- fre
- Material:
- ill.
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 v. ([31] leaves, 440 p.) : ill. ; 33 cm.
- Former Owner(s):
- Moreau, Nicolas
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
- Note:
- Autograph manuscript, the dedication to the king signed by the author and dated Paris 1 Jan. 1568 (f. 3r).
Written by the author in littera bastarda and a mixture of other calligraphic hands.
The section headed "Les principaux conseillers & officiers estants en faveur en la Court d'Elizabeth a present Royne d'Angleterre" (pp. 167-440) includes an armorial drawing in color for each nobleman.
Throughout there are many illuminated initials and foliate and floral tailpieces in colors.
Bound in original calf painted with flowers and scenes in cartouches on front and back, spine rebacked. The edges are also hand-decorated in colors.
In a cloth four-flap folder within a tray case by Zaehnsdorf, 35 cm.
Gift of Philip Hofer in memory of Theodore Sizer '16, 1967.
Nicolas Moreau (16th cent.; signatures on verso of title page and on p. 440); Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 13786; label on spine). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098478110203941/catalog
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:4074277
- Holding Institution:
