Harvard University, MS Typ 455

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11104

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 455

Title:

Armoiries des seigneurs de la cour d'Henri II Roy de France vers l'an 1551

Date:

ca. 1551

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

fre

French WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: leaves I-XXII, bound : vellum ; 28 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Stanhope family

Earl of Chesterfield WIKIDATA

Bliss, Jeannette Dwight

Jeannette Dwight Bliss WIKIDATA

Note:

Title from a later (18th-cent?) inscription on front flyleaf.
The last coat of arms on f. XXIIr is uncaptioned, and there is a blank for a further one. On the verso is an unidentified coat of arms in a different style added later.
Bound in 18th-century russia, gilt, rebacked.
In a tray case, 30 cm.
Stanhope family, Earls of Chesterfield (bookplate; 10th Earl's sale, Sothebys, 9 April 1919, lot 231); Jeannette Dwight Bliss (bookplate).
Gift of Miss Susan D. Bliss from the library of Jeannette Dwight Bliss, 1967.

Keyword:

coats of arms

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Heraldry

France

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098259630203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3983599

Holding Institution:

Harvard University