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Record Id:

032-003442537

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003442537

MDARK:

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Add MS 6331

Title:

Volume of larger collection of sixty-six volumes [6277 to 6342] acquired from Lady Banks, this volume contains a collection of Engravings and Drawings of the Arms born by various Sees, Cities, Towns, Corporations, Companies, Banking Societies, etc. in Eng

Scope & Content:

A folio volume (104 folios), the first portion of which consists of a collection of Engravings and Drawings of the Arms born by various Sees, Cities, Towns, Corporations, Companies, Banking Societies, etc. in England, arranged alphabetically, with memoranda by Mrs. Sarah Sophia Banks. (folios 1-50b)

In the second portion is arranged, in a miscellaneous order:

1. Arms of the Irish Sees. (folio 51)

2. List of colours from the blazon of Arms. (folio 52)

3. Arms of monasteries (from Tanner). (folio 53-55)

4. Great seal of George II and seals of the Lord Mayor and Prerogative Court. (folio 56)

5. Royal Arms, 1797. (folio 57)

6. Arms of Individuals, arranged alphabetically. (folios 58, 59)

7. Arms of Peers. (folio 60, 61)

8. Memoranda relating to the preceding Arms, and names of the contributors. (folio 62)

9. Original note from Mr. Townsend (Windsor Herald) to Sarah Sophia Banks, inclosing some notes, relative to Arms on Provincial Tokens. Dated Heralds College, 28 December 1796. (folio 63-64)

10. Memoranda by Mr. Adam Wolley, Junior of Matlock, on Provincial Tokens, the Arms of the Society of Mines Royal 1568, the Society for Mineral Works 1568, and arms of Robert Greensmith esquire, granted 18 January 1714. (folios 65-66)

11. Memoranda relative to the arms of the county of Derbyshire and Kesteven and Holland. (folio 67)

12. Drawings of Crests and Memoranda. (folios 68, 68b)

13. The armorial ensigns of Counties, Cities, etc. extracted from Edmondson’s ‘Heraldry’, volume 1. (folios 69-73)

14. Arms of the Royal Burghs, extracted from Edmondson. (folios 74-77)

15. Further extracts from Edmondson, relating to the Harrington, Wake, and Dacre Badges, etc. (folios 78-79)

16. List of the seals engraved in Jacob’s ‘History of Feversham’, 1774. With the engravings. (folios 80-85)

17. Extracts from Samme’s ‘Antiquities of Britain’, 1676, and ‘Divi Britannici’, by Sir Winston Churchill, 1675. (folios 86-87b)

18. Mottoes of the Nobility, with translations, from Edmondson. (folios 88-89b)

19. List of the City Companies. (folio 89b)

20. List of seals engraved in Boys’s Collections for a History of Sandwich etc. 1792, with proofs of the engravings, and extracts from the work. (folios 91-103)

21. Memoranda relating to the Cinque Ports. (folios 91-103)

22. Engraved plate of Mr. Boys’s Arms. (folio 104)

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003442537

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003442537

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume (104 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1791

End Date:

1801

Date Range:

c 1796

Era:

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Custodial History:

As with sixty-six volumes nos. 6277 to 6342 inclusive, presented to the Museum by Lady Banks, in the Autumn of the year 1819

Material Type:

Prints, Drawings and Paintings

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Notes:

This catalogue description has been transcribed from the original [18th-19th-century] handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts and may contain inaccuracies. The handwritten catalogue is available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.

Related Material:

Contains extracts from Edmondson’s ‘Heraldry’, volume 1, Samme’s ‘Antiquities of Britain’, 1676, and ‘Divi Britannici’, by Sir Winston Churchill, 1675. Related to the sixty-six volumes nos. 6277 to 6342 acquired from Lady Banks.