Shelfmark
MS 296
Title
Recueil d'armoires diverses des rois, empereurs, souverains, princes et ducs et barons des temps anciens et modernes, avec notices en français [manuscript]
Varying form of title
Spine title: Armorial des souverains de l'Europe
Publication, distribution, etc.
North-western Europe, 1625-1675.
Physical description
1 v. : coats of arms ; 293 x 207 mm.
Language
Written in Latin, German and French. Text at the head of each coat of arms is written in Latin or German; additional marginal explanations or translations are written in French.
Note
Cataloguer devised title.
Note
Material: paper; early modern and modern (watermark visible on flyleaves but illegible).
Note
Format: codex.
Note
Number of leaves: pagination mixed with foliation; begins at folio 100 but there are occasional errors in foliation and numbers are not always in sequential order.
Note
Mise-en-page: each page presents text accompanying large illustrations of coats of arms, using red and black ink. Notes in French are written on lines ruled in pencil.
Note
Decoration: coats of arms are drawn in brown ink and filled with blues, reds, greens, pinks, yellows etc. Their size varies, some occupy the entire page (e.g. 221 x 130 mm) while others are small enough to fit multiple examples on one page (e.g. 85 x 60 mm). Some coats of arms are surrounded by additional decorations, such as puttis.
Note
Handwriting: the text in German or Latin is usually written in a gothic script; when the script is all capitals then the model script of the one used here is square capitalis. The text in French is written in a cursive script.
Cite as
Eton College, MS 296
Provenance
Origin: unknown.
Provenance
Provenance: ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front flyleaf.
Binding
Early 19th-century red morocco and marbled paper over ?millboards. Covers otherwise undecorated. Spine with 5 raised bands, decorated with blind fillets, one gilt tool and titling ("Stumphius -- Armorial des souverains de l'Europe"). Textblock trimmed and dyed red. Endleaves of marbled (lining papers) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both end of the textblock.
Subject
Heraldry Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Language code
ger lat fre
Identifier
B52825