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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26667
Title:: Chronique Universelle
Scope & Content:: Contents: Chronique Universelle, a chronicle of universal history from the Creation to 1340, divided into 6 ages. Decoration: 7 full-page miniatures in colours with gold. Initials and line fillers in gold on red grounds. The subjects of the miniatures are: f. 1r: The Expulsion from Paradi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1480-1490
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26669
Title:: LETTERS and papers relating to the restoration of Louis XVIII.; 1813-1815. Fr. The writers are- 1. [Pierre Louis Jean Casimir, Duc de] Blacas d'Aulps; Hartwell, London, 7 Apr. 1813-31 Mar. 1814, ff. 2-9, 15, 21, 27. 2. Louis XVIII.; Hartwell, 20 Sept. 1813, ff. 10, 12 (copy), 14. 3. Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Stewart, [afterwards 3rd Marquis of Londonderry;] Basle, 20 Jan. 1814, f. 23. 4. M[arqu]is? de Beauvais; Vienna, 30 Mar. 1814, f. 25. Included also are-Secret instructions to ...
Scope & Content:: Louis XVIII of France: Letters and papers relating to his restoration: 1813-1815.: Fr. Henri Alphonse Bruges, Vicomte de Bruges: Correspondence and papers: 1813-1815.: Fr. includes: ff. 2-9, 15, 21, 27 Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas, Duc de Blacas d'Aulps; French Ambassador to Rome: Lett...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1813-1815
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26688
Title:: ENTRY-BOOK of patents of nobility granted by Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia and Empress, to families of the Low Countries, and drawing of the arms; 1741-1756. With notes of registration by the Chevalier A[ndré] F[rançois] Jaerens, Toison d'Or King at Arms, to the end of the year 1749, and subsequently by A. F. J. Jaerens. An index is added. Paper; Quarto.
Scope & Content:: André François Jaerens, Toison d'Or King-of-Arms: Entry-book of patents of nobility of the Netherlands: 1741-1749.: Fr. A- F- J- Jaerens: Entry-book of patents of nobility of the Netherlands: 1749-1756.: Fr. Netherlands, United Provinces: Register of grants of nobility from the Empress Maria T...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1741-1756
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26692
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. I. Nicolas Quesnel, Painter., of Paris: Arms of French nobility: 1630.: Fr. Heraldry: Arms of the French nobility, described by N. Quesnel: 1630.: Fr. France General Chronicles and History, etc: Arms of the French nobility, by N. Quesnel: 1630.: Fr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1630
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26692-26693
Title:: ARMS of the French nobility, in colours, and described by Nicolas Quesnel, painter, of Paris; with indexes; 1630
Scope & Content:: . In French. Paper. Two volumes Small Quarto.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1630
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26693
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II. Nicolas Quesnel, Painter., of Paris: Arms of French nobility: 1630.: Fr. Heraldry: Arms of the French nobility, described by N. Quesnel: 1630.: Fr. France General Chronicles and History, etc: Arms of the French nobility, by N. Quesnel: 1630.: Fr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1630
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26700
Title:: ARMS, in blazon and colours, of princes and "seigneurs à banieres," of France, England, Burgundy, and the Netherlands, and, towards the end of the volume, with less fulness, of Germany, Spain, and Portugal; with a short introductory treatise on heraldry, in which the work of "maistre Eraert" [Jan Errart] is quoted, f. 7. At the end, f. 130, are the names of towns and arms of provinces which belonged to "Charles de Valloix" [Charles the Bold], Duke of Burgundy. Fr. Compiled apparently by a he...
Scope & Content:: Kingdom of Spain: Arms of princes and nobles: 16th cent. Portugal: Arms of princes and others: 16th cent. Portugal: Genealogical table and arms of princes: 16th cent. Netherlands, United Provinces: Arms of princes, nobles,and towns: 16th cent. Heraldry: General armory compiled by a Flemish h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26707
Title:: 1. ARMS, in colours, of Flemish nobles, of 1549, of Flemish towns, and of Counts of Flanders and their wives; with descriptions in Flemish and French, f. 1. 2. Genealogical tables, tracing the quarterings of sovereign princes of Flanders, of the houses of Valois, of Austria, Spain and Portugal, and of their wives; with arms in colours. Fr. f. 7. 3. Arms, in colours, of kingdoms hed by Philip II. of Spain, f. 18. 4. Arms, in colours, of kingdoms of Europe and Asia, f. 18 b. 5. Genealo...
Scope & Content:: Netherlands, United Provinces: Arms of princes, nobles,and towns: 16th cent. Heraldry: Arms of Flemish nobility, towns, etc.: 16th cent. includes: ff. 1-6 Flanders: Arms of nobles and towns: 16th cent. f. 7 Valois family: Genealogy and arms of: 16th cent.: Fr. f. 7 Kingdom of Spain: Arms of p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26708
Title:: TREATISE on the blazonry of arms, in twelve chapters, in French; with arms in gold and silver, and in colours. Beginning, "Pource que a toutes maniers de gens nobles." Between the 5th and 6th chapters, f. 9, is a tract in French, describing the arms of the "vergior de France," of various duchies and earldoms, and of eighteen Christian kings, and setting forth the primary rules of blazonry; with the colophon, "Explicit. Frere ihehan Pierre. 1489." And after the 1lth chapter, f. 25, is inserte...
Scope & Content:: Jehan Pierre: On the blazonry of arms: 1489.: Fr. Heraldry: Treatise on the blazonry of arms, by J. Pierre: 1489.: Fr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26713
Title:: "LIURE de Lordre du Thoison dor," containing the arms of all the knights of the order to the year 1559, in colours; the names in French. Paper; xvith cent. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Orders Military. Golden Fleece: Arms of knights, 1429-1559: 16th cent.: Fr. Orders Military. Golden Fleece: Livre de l'ordre: jusqu'á 1559. Heraldry: Arms of knights of the Golden Fleece: 16th and 17th centt.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

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