Alphabet of arms
Reference code
MSS/0368
Title
Alphabet of arms
Date
18th century
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
ff. iii + 159, iii + 183. Two volumes.
Folio.
Half leather binding, calf, with marbled boards.
Folio.
Half leather binding, calf, with marbled boards.
Scope and content
Two volumes, A-B, C-G, of an alphabet of arms; 18th century. Blazons, with small ink drawings of charges. Includes coats and variants not in Edmondson's or Burke's collections. Vol.I damaged by damp and lacks pp. 1-15 of the original pagination.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/368
Archival history
Acquired by V.H.P.Lawrence of Launceston (signatures, I,II, fol. ii verso) from the library of the late Rev. Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell of Landulph, Cornwall, and 'bound by me' [i.e. ?Lawrence], 1850 (notes, I, fols. ii verso, iii).