Add MS 45577

'THE ANTIQUITY OF THE FAMILY OF MOULE...': genealogical collections compiled by Thomas Moule, author of Bibliotheca Heraldica Magnae Britanniæ (1822), 1837 (sic f. i), with additions and insertions made by himself and other members of the family; circ. 1822-circ. 1938, n.d. Included are drawings of coats of arms and seals, pedigrees, extracts from documents and transcripts of memorial inscriptions (of the latter that at f. 44 being in the hand of Sophia Barbara Moule, Moule's daughter, dated 8 Aug. 1838), etc. At f. 19 is a copy of the coloured drawing of the figure of Sir John de Moulens from Parliamentary Roll I. B (Harley MS. 4205, f. 82). Among the insertions is a pen-and-ink sketch of John Moule, the compiler's father, made 13 Apr. 1823 (f. 46). The volume is noticed by R. W. M. Lewis, The Family of Moule of Melksham, Fordington, and Melbourne, 1938, pp. 3, 4; see also H. G. Monroe, Elmley Lovett and the Moules of Sneads Green, 1927 (supplement, 1932). Paper; ff. iii + 69. Folio. Circ. 1822-circ. 1938. At ff. ii, 47b are engravings of the Moule crest with the motto, 'Gaudeat Patientia Duris' (as used on the title-page of his Bibliotheca Heraldica, 1822), for the probable source of which see f. 41. At f. i is inserted a letter from the donor to the then Keeper of Manuscripts, Harold Idris Bell (knt. 1946), 9 Sept. 1940, and at f. iii is a memorandum by the former recording that 'This book was bought by A. C. M.[oule] in London 23 June 1932 for £3-10s-od'. Presented by the Rev. Professor Arthur Christopher Moule, Litt.D.