Various heraldic tracts and miscellanies, collected by William Smith, Rouge Dragon pursuivant, bulk: 1586
File
MS. Rawl. B. 120
Held at the Weston Library
The following title is prefixed: "The image of heraldrye: shewing divers secrett matters and secrettes touchinge heraldrye: wherein is described the true path-waye to obtaine that excellent science: fitt for to be knowne and readde of all those whiche are desirous to searche therein. Written ano Domini 1586, et anno regni Reginæ Elizabethæ vicesimo nono."
At the end of the volume, reversed, is an account of receipts for timber sold to Harry Vane, Thomas Browning, and others, from 1703 to 1709.
Originally 221 leaves but many are now missing: (fols. 1-8, 17-22, 32-84, 93-94, 99-112, 110-122, 127-132, 135-149, 157-159, 162-180) are wanting.
At the end of the volume, reversed, is an account of receipts for timber sold to Harry Vane, Thomas Browning, and others, from 1703 to 1709.
Originally 221 leaves but many are now missing: (fols. 1-8, 17-22, 32-84, 93-94, 99-112, 110-122, 127-132, 135-149, 157-159, 162-180) are wanting.
Dates
- Majority of material found in 1586
Extent
221 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Rawl. B. 120
Other Finding Aids
William D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae partis quintae fasciculus primus viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum classes duas priores, ad rem historicam praecipue et topographicam spectantes, complectens (Oxford, 1862), no. B. 120.
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. III, no. 11491.
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. III, no. 11491.
Custodial History
In tegmine exteriori literæ initiales nominis cujusdam possessoris, H. T., impressæ sunt; et in folio adinitium supervacaneo est hæc nota, manu Ric. Rawlinson: "This was wrote by Wm. Smith, Rouge Dragon, a very industrious officer in the college of arms, temp. Elizab. Regin. Thus Mr. Anstis."
Physical Facet
On paper, in folio
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk