Stowe MS 1023-1024

"IMAGINES seu Figuræ variarum Inscriptionum præcipue Sepulchralium, Lapidum in orbes depositorum, Substructionum quas Wallici Kromlech et Kistvêan nominant, cipporum quos cruces dicimus, castrorum seu castrametationum antiquarum, in Angliâ, Scotiâ et Hiberniâ, curâ Johannis Anstis, Fecialium Principis cognomento Garter, delineata et ob oculos posita": a collection of drawings of stone-circles, crosses, cromlechs, camps, tombs, brasses, etc. In two volumes. Only the title-page and a few pages at the beginning of vol. i. are in the hand of Anstis himself. The contents are divided as follows:-England, vol. i. ff. 9-78; Wales, vol. i. ff. 79-181, vol. ii. ff. 1-78; Scotland, vol. ii. ff. 79-124; Ireland, vol. ii. ff. 125-196. The work has apparently never been published, but a paper on the subject of it by Thomas Astle, who acquired most of Anstis's MSS. in 1768, was read before the Society of Antiquaries on 11 June, 1798, under the title of "Observations on Stone Pillars, Crosses and Crucifixes" (see Archæologia, vol. xiii. p. 208). Paper; ff. 181, 201. XVIIIth cent. With the arms of T. Astle on the covers. Quarto.