Armorial bearings.
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
15th-century English manuscript containing three Middle English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the chivalric poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Armorial bearings of John Dunlop of Gairbraid., Circa 1860.
`Armourial [sic] Bearings of the Bruces`, by Major William Bruce Armstrong.
Arms and crests painted in colours, followed by brief notes on their holders and the authorities from which the information was taken.
Collection of material on French heraldry, in several hands of the first half of the 18th century.
Copy, 16th century, of `Recueil des Principaux Seigneurs qui passerent la Mer avec Guillaume Conquereur d`Angleterre`, a treatise on the genealogy and heraldry of the English nobility written by Jean Benard in 1567.
The manuscript is similar to the autograph manuscript of 1572 (Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. français 19000), but lacks the dedicatory letter to Charles IX and has no miniatures. The decoration consists of paintings of flowers and fruit, borders and armorial bearings, with some decorated initials. There is a note, ‘Southampton`s Genealogies`, in a 17th-century hand on folio iii.
Description of the armorial bearings of Scottish families, some bearings being shown in colour., Late 17th century.
On folio 4 verso is a note, “This Copie I had from the originall written by Sr. Patrick Lyon Lord Carse and lent to me by him selfe all wrñ with his own hand, which he had lent before to Sr. George McKenzie the king's advocate, who copied itt & made severall additions therto, as every one may doe from ther own experience as I myselfe have done in seāll places. Facile est inventis addere. W A".
'Fitzalan Prayerbook', a 15th-century devotional manuscript written and illuminated in England, bearing the arms of the Fitzalan Earls of Arundel.
`Foundation of the Universitie of Cambridge with a Catologue of the principall founders and speciall Benefactors of the Colledges publike Schooles and Librarie now extant in ye same. And the names of all the present Mrs and Fellowes ... together with the number of Magistrats Gouernours and Officers ... Collected Julie the 10th 1622`, compiled by John Scott, a notary public, who dedicated it to Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel.
The manuscript includes the painted arms of each college and its founder, and of some of the university officials.
Genealogy of the family of Harry Robertson, Minister of Kiltearn., [Circa 1890.]
John Riddell’s grangerized copy of ‘The Peerage of Scotland’ by Sir Robert Douglas (Edinburgh, 1764), divided at pages 364-365 of the printed text into two separately bound parts., 1764, ?1807.
Both parts are interleaved, the paper being watermarked 1807, and contain Riddell`s notes and amendments throughout, and a small number of letters and papers (one printed) bound in at various places. Colours have been added to the majority of the armorial engravings.