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Title
Names and arms of the Knights of the Garter [manuscript], 1606.
Description
56 leaves : coats of arms
Associated name
Segar, William, Sir, -1633, author.
Material base
Manuscript on parchment.
Scope and content
Loose pages from Segar's work, bound in no order. Includes: 6 dedication pages to James I; some full page arms in color of royal and other knights; some biographies of knights, many incomplete. Many added much later, ca. 1800, including the arms of the Hanoverian Kings of England before 1800. Possibly connected with "Arms of the knights of the noble Order of the Garter [1591]."
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Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2014 .Symbols of Honor. Opening: fol. 16.
Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1461.1
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V.b.157
Folger accession
cs1461