Heraldic notebook
Reference code
HOP/07
Title
Heraldic notebook
Date
1880-1887
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
ff. 49.
Octavo.
Black spine, with marbled boards.
Octavo.
Black spine, with marbled boards.
Scope and content
Heraldic notebook containing blazons of arms from seals (fols.2-22), lists of rolls of arms (fols.47v-37v rev.), notes (fols.36v-24v rev.) on the earliest source of the Heralds' roll (College of Arms, MS B 29, pp.20-27); commenced 20 Aug. 1880 (fol.1), continued 1887, etc. The notebook contains Hope's first collections for a grammar of heraldry (see note, fol.1) and is the germ of his book A Grammar of English Heraldry (1913). At the reverse end (fol.49v) is noted a 'Scheme for an English Heraldic Library' to include publications of rolls of arms, a history and grammar, an armorial and other heraldic topics. See Aspilogia, I (1950), xxviii, for the project planned by Hope, Barron and Doubleday for a corpus of medieval arms.
Creator
Hope, William Henry St John (1854-1919), Knight, archaeologist and antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/916/1