Shelfmark
MS 215
Main entry--corporate name
College of Arms (England and Wales) Garter King of Arms
Title
The knights and companions of the most noble Order of the Garter, made by our Soveraign Lord King Iames, from ye year of o[ur] Lord .1603. untill .1619. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, 1619.
Physical description
1 volume (iv, 27, ii leaves) : coats of arms ; 27 x 19 cm.
Note
Title transcribed from title-page.
Note
Contains the arms of the knights and companions of the Order of the Garter with their titles in French.
Note
Dedicatory letter to King James VI & I signed by Sir William Segar (c.1554-1633), Garter King of Arms.
Note
Date of production taken from the title and the dedicatory letter.
Note
Main text is written in professional English italic and roman hands.
Note
Leaves are numbered in pencil in a modern hand. The first four leaves and final two leaves are blank.
Note
Leaves double ruled in red; ruled in dry point; written in blank ink with some illumination in gold.
Note
The verso of each leaf bears a list of titles; the facing recto bears an illuminated image of the related arms.
Note
Booklabel of Storer bequest, recording bequest by Anthony Morris Storer to Eton College Library in 1800. The number 321 on leaf i recto may relate to Storer's collection.
Note
Catalogued by hand by M.R. James in the interleaved James 1895 catalogue (Eton MS 932). According to this, the manuscript was previously shelved with Storer's books at Ch.1.2.10.
Binding
According to the catalogue record in MS 932, the volume was bound in red velvet with ribbons 'of Garter blue'. This binding was replaced by Richard Day in the late 20th or early 21st century: Stiff boards covered in dull red velvet cloth; green ribbon ties; small paper label printed with garter emblem adhered to spine, presumably from earlier binding; fresh endpapers; gilt edges.
Subject
James, 1566 - 1625 I, King of England
Subject
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Storer, Anthony Morris, 1746 - 1799 former owner.
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--place
England
Identifier
B48725