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Title

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

Other related names

• Dallas, Robert, Sir, 1756-1824, former owner
• Stewart, John Alexander, 1846-1933, former owner
• Stewart, Henry Clark, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1071
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942208683503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/179921380
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4220868

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1597

Place

England

Summary

Coats of arms, some painted and some drawn in ink, for the monarchs and nobles of England from Edward the Confessor to Elizabeth I, accompanied by names, titles, descriptions of the coats of arms, and sometimes short biographies. Sections for each monarch include the principal nobility who held titles or were given titles during the reign of that monarch. A contemporary index divides the names of the individuals included according to their first letter but then lists the names beginning with each letter in order of appearance (f. 88-90). Two smaller pages of notes perhaps associated with the compilation of this manuscript, one concerning the heirs of Richard Woodvile, Earl of Rivers, including the Lords of Stanley, and the other on financial holdings and properties of various families, are tipped in (f. 92v, f. 93v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from opening rubric (f. 1r).
   

Watermark

Briquet 12772, Pot à une anse (Amiens, 1598).

Extent

96 leaves : 285 x 186 (239 x 174) mm. bound to 298 x 207 mm

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.

Support

Paper

Binding

20th-century half leather with leather label for title on upper cover, Heraldic manuscript, 1597.

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.

Decoration

509 coats of arms (307 painted, 164 drawn in ink, 38 blank); one large calligraphic initial (f. 1r).

Script

Written in a late Elizabethan secretary script, with a larger calligraphic script used for the names of monarchs.

Provenance

• 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 bookplate, Henry Clark Stewart of Inchmahome, with pelican piercing breast and motto Sanguine suo, on first flyleaf).
   
• Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2007.
   

Subjects topical

• Heraldry--England--Early works to 1800
• Nobility--England--History

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, English--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• English
• England
• History
• Heraldry
• Paper

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Table of contents

• fol. 88r — Index, f. 88r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Calligraphic initial, Initial T, f. 1r
• fol. 92v — Owner note, f. 92v
• fol. 94v — Owner note, f. 94v