Accession number
MS S.11
Object title
Manual of Heradry.
Display Date
17th century
Created
France, 17th century
Binding
Limp vellum.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Description
84 leaves (2 coats of arms to a page), bound : paper, ill. ; 222 x 159 mm.
Provenance
Pasted inside front cover, typed description of the manuscript, with British spelling of the word coloured; E. Clark Stillman Collection.
Notes
Ms. drawn, painted, captioned in France, seventeenth century (inscribed on one of the coats of arms, a silver bell on a blue field, the letters MAR . C . V. 1630).
Decoration: 168 armorial devices (coats of arms, drawn in brown ink and colored in opaque paint, probably gouache)
Watermark: on most folios but hardly possible to make out.
Decoration: 168 armorial devices (coats of arms, drawn in brown ink and colored in opaque paint, probably gouache)
Watermark: on most folios but hardly possible to make out.
Script
cursive
Language
French
Century
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