Transcripts, with coats of arms relating to Froissart’s Chronicle (Heraut de Gueldre etc)
Reference code
SHP/02
Title
Transcripts, with coats of arms relating to Froissart’s Chronicle (Heraut de Gueldre etc)
Date
1899-1930s
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
ff. iii + pp. 223.
Quarto.
Cloth binding, dark blue.
Quarto.
Cloth binding, dark blue.
Scope and content
Transcript of ‘L’Armorial du Heraut Gueldre’ (1334-1372), likely from the 1881 Victor Bouton edition, with excerpts from other rolls mainly French. With correspondence from the Shakespeare Head Press headed ‘Froissart’ (1928/29) and transcripts of William Belcher’s church notes relating to Northamptonshire (pp. 195-223). Shepard’s arms drawn in pencil on inside cover and contents list included on folio ii.
Creator
Shepard, Thomas (1860-1937), army officer and antiquary
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/729/2