Ordinary of arms [manuscript], ca. 1600.
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Title
Ordinary of arms [manuscript], ca. 1600.
Created/published
England, 1600-1630.
Description
1 v. : coats of arms ; 196 mm x 160 mm x 38 mm
Note
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 271734 (folio)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "[Sussex? Circa 1600-30]. Modern vellum binding, some leaves torn with loss, since neatly archivally repaired. Small quarto (196 mm x 160 mm x 38 mm). A total of 205 leaves with hand-painted coats of arms, each captioned and with some additional notes in a contemporary hand, some errors in pagination but lacking approximately 13 leaves. Paper: earlier quires are post or pillar; later quires are grapes. Neither exactly match anything in Haewood. Both papers were used in the early- to mid-17th century. Provenance: Full-page crest of the Higham family to first leaf. This has been damaged but enough remains to allow identification. The arms are those of the Higham family with differences, and a mullet denoting the third son. The Highams are recorded in visitations of Essex, Sussex, and Cheshire where arms in each case are similar save the field is different (chequy or paly) and the chief of another colour (sable and azure). The arms in this manuscript seem to be a differenced coat for a younger branch of the Higham family of Sussex. Ownership inscription on front free endpapers "Sanctificetur Nomen Dei / Will: White Nov: 1644"; Christopher Gibbs, collector and antiques dealer (1938-2018); his sale, the contents of The Manor House, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire, Christie's, 26 September 2000, lot 799 [...]" Ordered from Dean Cooke, Manuscripts & Rare Books D9371 2019-11-27, Cat. "Boston Bibliotheca Being a selection of unusual MANUSCRIPTS & RARE BOOKS IN TWO PARTS PART I: FEATURED WORKS PART II: FURTHER WORKS", item #12.
Folger accession
271734