A display of heraldry [manuscript], ca. 1610.
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Title
A display of heraldry [manuscript], ca. 1610.
Description
[4], 110 leaves : coats of arms ; 38 x 25 cm
Associated name
Guillim, John, 1565-1621, author.
Dearing family, former owner.
Dearing family, former owner.
Scope and content
Perhaps Guillim's draft of the Display, published in 1611. Manuscript starts at about chapter 5 of section II of the printed edition, and follows the same order of subjects, but the text varies, and there are many more arms illustrated; some sentences are identical. Note on last page suggests manuscript is a draft for publication: ". . . these following which I will expresse with as fewe examples as I possibly maye because of the huge charge of cutting." The printed book does have fewer examples of arms. Arms in trick, color very rarely used, notable on leaf 76.
Note
Modern index of persons at beginning of volume.
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Provenance
Dering MS from Surrenden.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2014. Symbols of Honor. Opening: fol. 79v-80r.
Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1430.1
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Cover-to-cover images of Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.171
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V.b.171
Folger-specific note
Slip of blue paper with verse from Isaiah in 19th-century hand loosely laid in between pages 92-93.
Folger accession
cs1430