Scrapbook of heraldic and genealogical items of 16th and 17th centuries [manuscript], collected ca. 1700?.
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Title
Scrapbook of heraldic and genealogical items of 16th and 17th centuries [manuscript], collected ca. 1700?.
Description
197 p. : coats of arms
Associated name
Vicars, Arthur Edward, 1864-1921, former owner.
Scope and content
Miscellaneous collection in numerous different hands; some may be cut from herald's notebooks, a few are printed charges/emblems possibly intended for inn signs. Several large blazons in water color. On p. 73 is a sketch of arms of "Shakespeare the player." Page 165 dated 1570; p. 57 dated 1632; p. 80 dated [1665?]. Pages 36 and 91 in the hand of Peter le Neve, and page 102 in the hand of Ralph Brooke.
Note
Index of names added by Arthur Vicars, 1887.
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Provenance
Arthur Vicars MS.
Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 466.5
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V.b.92
Folger accession
cs466