University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1071

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DS ID:

DS890

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1071

Title:

The names and armes of all the nobilitie who were in England at the tyme of King William the Conqueror.

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

1597.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

eng

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 96 leaves : paper ; 285 x 186 (239 x 174) mm bound to 298 x 207 mm

Former Owner(s):

Dallas, Robert, Sir, 1756-1824

Robert Dallas WIKIDATA

Stewart, J. A. 1846-1933

John Alexander Stewart WIKIDATA

Stewart, Henry Clark

Henry Clark Stewart WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in England in 1597.
Title from opening rubric (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 96; ii (modern paper) + iv (contemporary ruled paper) + 84, [85-94] + ii (modern paper); contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Ruled in brown and red ink for a wide inner column for text and a narrower outer column for illustration; running heads at the top of the text column follow the progression of monarchs.
Script: Written in a late Elizabethan secretary script, with a larger calligraphic script used for the names of monarchs.
Binding: 20th-century half leather with leather label for title on upper cover, Heraldic manuscript, 1597.
Watermark: Briquet 12772, Pot à une anse (Amiens, 1598).
Decoration: 509 coats of arms (307 painted, 164 drawn in ink, 38 blank); one large calligraphic initial (f. 1r).
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2007.
Previously owned by Sir Robert Dallas (note from Simmons and Waters Booksellers to John Alexander Stewart, f. 94v); purchased in 1921 by John Alexander Stewart (1846-1933 if the professor at Oxford University; armorial bookplate, Sigillum Johannis Alexandri Stewart, with pelican piercing breast and motto Sanguine suo, inside upper cover); and previously owned by Henry Clark Stewart (armorial...

Keyword:

Manuscripts, English

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Heraldry

England

Nobility

Kings and rulers

Great Britain

Early works

History

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942208683503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3xd1w/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania