Order of the Garter. Stall plates
Reference code
MSS/0660
Title
Order of the Garter. Stall plates
Date
mostly 1822-44
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
ff. xii + 65.
Folio.
Green leather spine (initials. 'K W. M.'), with green cloth. Bookplates of Keith William Murray, FSA, fols. iv, v.
Folio.
Green leather spine (initials. 'K W. M.'), with green cloth. Bookplates of Keith William Murray, FSA, fols. iv, v.
Scope and content
Counter-impressions (some in two states) of stall plates of Knights of the Garter. As follows:- 1552, reversed and counter-impressions, fols. i, ii, of the plate of Sir William Parr, brother of Qu Katherine (plate acquired by the British Museum; see Proc., 1st ser., 3 (1853-6), 151; Archaeologia, 36 (1855), 214-18); 1816 (fol. iii); 1822-44 (64 impressions); 1865 (one). List of missing plates, fol. xi. Index by Mill Stephenson, fols. viii-ix. See also MSS/0357, MSS/0358, MSS/0661, MSS/0662.
Creator
Stephenson, Mill (1857-1937), expert on monumental brasses, antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/660