Tricks of arms in Canterbury Cathedral
Reference code
MSS/0162
Title
Tricks of arms in Canterbury Cathedral
Date
temp. Eliz. I
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
ff.i (ii-iv not found) + 40.
Small folio.
Vellum binding (repaired, 1989). In a tan cloth folder. Pressmark (?), 'N:10:3', fol.1v.
Small folio.
Vellum binding (repaired, 1989). In a tan cloth folder. Pressmark (?), 'N:10:3', fol.1v.
Scope and content
Mostly four rows of three shields per page. Contains:- Two shields (over the north door to the cloisters, and from the chapel by the site of the Martyrdom of St Thomas), fol.1v; cloisters, fols. 2-30; chapter house windows, fol.31; burial place above the choir, fols. 31v-2; arms of Constantinople, etc. (seven shields), fol.32v; drawing of the tomb of the Black Prince, with arms, fol.33; arms in windows in the cathedral, fols. 33v-7v; south porch, fols. 38-9; great gate, fols. 39-40. Notes by Peter Le Neve, Norroy, PSA, fols. 1v, 17, 22v, etc.
Creator
Thorpe, John (1682-1750), antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/162
Archival history
Exhibited to SA, 24 Jan.1793 (Minute Book XXIV, p.366). See Archaeologia, 66 (1915), 447-568; ibid., 71 (1921), 125-32.
Transcribed by Edward Hasted, 1768 (cf. BL Add. MS 5479, fol.90), when in the possession of John Thorpe, junior, FSA.
Transcribed by Edward Hasted, 1768 (cf. BL Add. MS 5479, fol.90), when in the possession of John Thorpe, junior, FSA.