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Selected image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.74
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Title
Armorial of English families [manuscript], ca. 1590.
Description
240 leaves : coats of arms (some col.) ; 30 x 20 cm
Associated name
Segar, William, Sir, -1633, compiler.
Scope and content
Hundreds of arms, many very sketchy, in trick and in color. Index on leaves 160-168. Leaf 217: arms of Norfolk lords and gentry. Leaf 237: the order of the Scottish Queen's funeral at Peterborough, July 3, 1587. Possibly compiled by Sir William Segar: see his signatures on fly-leaf (as Somerset herald) and on leaf 137v (as Norroy King of Arms).
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Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 297.2
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Selected image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library V.b.74
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Great Britain -- England -- Norfolk.
Great Britain -- England -- Norfolk.
Item Details
Call number
V.b.74
Folger accession
cs297