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1. Add MS 4958-4977

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STUART COLLECTION
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts formerly belonging to Sir Simeon Stuart, 3rd Bart., of Hartley Mauduit, co. Southt. (d. 1779), sold at the sale of his library in 1777 and purchased by the Museum from a book seller in 1778 (cf. John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, viii, 1814, p. 645). Paper, except where otherwise sta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[1500-1714]
Extent:
20 items

2. Add MS 4958-4975

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Heraldic MSS., of which all except 4959 had been the property of Richard Wallis, painter stainer of London, some having previously belonged to Samuel Waker, another painter stainer, with whom Wallis was closely associated. Many of these MSS. are in the autograph of Waker or Wallis, or both, while others bear their annotations or marks of ownership. Some bear as a frontispiece a form of summons to the Court of Assistants of the Painter Stainers Company, very likely belonging to Wallis, who be...
Scope & Content:
Heraldry: Heraldic collections of Sir S. Stuart: 16th-18th centt.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
[1500-1714]
Extent:
18 items

3. Add MS 4977

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STUART COLLECTION. Vol. XX (ff. i + 31). Book of swanmarks of the Fenland and Broadland area of East Anglia; circa 1573- 1579. Vellum and paper. About 550 marks are recorded, with names of owners, indexed in a contemporary hand at ff. 1-4b. For a list of rolls of swan-marks, including a referenc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1573-1579
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 4976

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STUART COLLECTION. Vol. XIX (ff. i + 89). Album Amicorum of a gentleman, probably of German or Austrian origin, resident at Florence; 1660-15 Mar. 1669. Latin, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Paper, except for ff. 25, 55 which are of vellum. There are eighty-seven entries, each with a paint...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1660-15 Mar 1669
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 4973

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STUART COLLECTION. Vol. XVI (ff. 106). Book of arms, drawn by R. Wallis, being a record of work done by London painter-stainers for funerals, etc.; 20 Mar. 1690/1 - 12 July 1692. In trick. The materials used are noted, also the name of the painter-stainer executing the work. Old number 'N. 1' (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar [1691]-12 Jul 1692
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 4975

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STUART COLLECTION. Vol. XVIII (ff. 136). Arms of the Scottish nobility, etc.; temp. Charles I [between 1625-1649]. In trick, and painted (f. 15). There is an index at ff. 5-7b. At f. 1 is a title beginning 'Heraldi sunt Nuncij Nobilitatis ...', followed (f. 2) by the order for creation of an Eng...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1625-1649]
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 4967

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STUART COLLECTION. Vol. X (ff. i + 47). Collection of arms and crests, circa 1556-1622, drawn in trick by Samuel Waker; circa 1669. At ff. 40-47 are anonymous coats of arms, some of which are simply pencil sketches. Old number 'N. 23'(f. i). Samuel Waker, painter stainer, of London: Heraldic co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1669
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 4958

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STUART COLLECTION. Vol. I (ff. 113). Baronage of England from the Conquest to 1572, by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms (d. 1593), with additions down to 1597. With painted drawings of shields, including those of sovereigns. Enlarged coats of arms for most sovereigns have been inserted in l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 4970

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STUART COLLECTION. Vol. XIII (ff. ii + 51). Collections of arms by Richard Wallis; late 17th cent. Autograph. Entered chiefly on ruled pages, with two separate sets of contemporary foliation, a large number of leaves being left blank. The material consists mainly of pencil and pen drawings of mi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 4962

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STUART COLLECTION. Vol. V (ff. i + 89). Visitation of Cambridgeshire, 1619, by Henry St. George, Richmond Herald (knt. 1627, Garter King of Arms 1643); aft. 1619. With painted shields and crests and an illuminated title-page (f. 1). There is an index at ff. 86-89b. The Visitations of Cambridgesh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1619
Extent:
1 item