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Container Reference (shelfmark) Stowe MS 661-742

1. Stowe MS 661

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Stowe MS 661
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1. "A PROBATIONERS first discourse (very playne and familliar) of the true placeing of the ordinarye difference of younger brothers and families in every coate armour incident"; written in the form of a dialogue between "three wandring knights," named respectively Sir Beraro, Sir Challamor and S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Stowe MS 662

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Stowe MS 662
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"A SHORT HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of such marks and ensignes of honour, as are commonly called Armes: shewing their originall, true use, and the antient practise in bearing them. Whereunto are added (f. 50) certain breife observations touching the antiquitie of Heraulds, their imployments, rights, pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1680
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 663

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Stowe MS 663
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"LES PRINCIPES DU BLASON," by T[homas] Dingley; with penand ink drawings, consisting of heraldic illustrations, arms of a few French nobles, and drawings of animals and landscapes, and a frontispiece of Orpheus playing- to wild beasts. At the end, reversing the volume, is a "Sermon [by Thos. Len...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 664

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Stowe MS 664
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THE ART of Blazoning-; with numerous coats-of-arms, coloured or tricked, in illustration. Followed (f. 14) by a Catalogue of the Baronets of England from the institution of the order in 1611 to 1721; with their respective arms in blazon, and the first thirteen also in trick. Paper; ff. 47. XVIII...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 665-666

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Stowe MS 665-666
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"ASPILOGIA, sive de Iconibus scutariis gentilitiis commentarius," by John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (ob. 1745), with additions by Thomas Astle. In two volumes. The first part of Vol. 1. is divided into thirteen chapters, in the autograph of Anstis, as follows:-Chap. i.-vi. Introductory treatise on the antiquity and history of seals, and their uses and value for heraldic and other purposes. ff. 1-21;-Chap. vii. Seals of the Crown. f. 21 b;-Chap. viii. Seals of the Nobility. f. 38;-Chap. ix....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 items

6. Stowe MS 667

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Stowe MS 667
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"ART OF HERALDRY: 41 [coloured] plates of arms blazoned, by the late Thomas Barber." With an index of names. Paper; ff. 88. XVIIth-XVIIIth centt. Small Quarto. Heraldry: Art of, by T. Barber: 17th-18th cent. Thomas Barber: Art of Heraldry: 17th-18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 668

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Stowe MS 668
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COLLECTION relating to heraldry, etc.:- 1. "Mémoir de ce que le t[re]sexcellent et tresuictorieux Roy [Hen. VII.] dangleterre ara a faire quant il sera mande venir aux chapitres generaulx de lordre de la toison dor, dont il est frere et compaignon," consisting of forms of procuration, etc. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 669

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Stowe MS 669
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HERALDIC COLLECTIONS, in English and Welsh, viz.:- 1. Copy of an ordinance (imperf. at beg.) concerning the duties of heralds in processions, etc., dated 3 Sept. 1417, and of another ordinance regulating the fees of the serjeant-at-arms; n. d. f. 1. 2. Analysis of the contents of the volume;...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Welsh
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 670

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Stowe MS 670
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HERALDIC COLLECTIONS, viz.;- 1. English arms in trick, granted for the most part temp. Eliz.; the, first part (ff. 1-56) copied from a MS. written by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux 1567-1592 (see f. 56). f. 1. 2. Northamptonshire arms in blazon, with a few others. In the same, hand as art. 6. f. 8...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Stowe MS 671

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Stowe MS 671
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COLLECTIONS of John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (1718-1745), for the most part in his own hand, and consisting of notes and extracts from the Heralds' College MSS., the Lords' Journals, the Cottonian MSS., and other sources. At f. 2 is a complete table (written by Anstis) of the contents of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item