Heraldic Manuscript, with c.3700 coloured coats of arms, 17th century

HERALDRY

Manuscript Armorial

containing approximately 3700 English coats of arms, pen-and-ink and watercolour, each captioned, nine to a page, with lists of armigerous families in various counties in Southern England scattered through the first quarter of the volume, full-page armorial achievement at the front of the volume, with an engraved portrait of King Charles I over a caption on the birth of Charles II on front endpapers, 197 (of 208) numbered leaves, 8vo (195 x 155mm), in later vellum, ties, initial armorial achievement torn with loss, lacking c.11 leaves, professional conservation and repairs principally to the initial leaves, the portrait edge-mounted, light spotting

This attractive volume, which has notes and captions in more than one hand, probably dates from the 1620s-30s, although it includes the arms of many individuals of an earlier date. 

PROVENANCE:

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

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