Thomas Jenyns’s Book
Reference code
MSS/0351
Title
Thomas Jenyns’s Book
Date
16th century
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
ff. iii + 39.
Folio.
Half leather binding, brown, with marbled boards.
Folio.
Half leather binding, brown, with marbled boards.
Scope and content
Thomas Jenyns’s Book. Copy derived from Queen Margaret's version (BL Add.MS 40851; see Aspilogia, I (1950), 73- 5); 16th century. Four rows of five shields per page, in colour, with blazons, mostly arranged as an ordinary. Arms of Margaret of Anjou laid down, fol. 1. Probably ended originally with Amondeville (fol. 36 verso; pages now bound out of order).
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/351
Archival history
Owned by William Hamper, FSA (signature, Birmingham, 1 Jan. 1813, fol. iii). Later owned by Henry Valentine (Stafford-Jerningham), 18th Baron Stafford (d. 1884); sale, Costessey Hall, Norfolk, Christie's, 28-30 May 1885, lot 147; see note by Sir A.W.Franks, fol. ii.