Bound volume
Reference code
STM/02
Title
Bound volume
Date
1870s-1880s
Level of description
series
Extent and format
1 volume
Outer dimensions 35.5 x 30 cm (boards)
Outer dimensions 35.5 x 30 cm (boards)
Scope and content
Album bound in red-brown cloth-covered boards, titled on spine, ‘MARGARET STOKES Copies from Coloured MSS. on Vellum’
Contains 12 card pages, each supporting one drawing on paper or vellum, mostly window mounted, numbered here 1–12. Each bound in, using a cloth strip to the left of the card mount. On the card pages themselves there is inconsistent and partly deleted old numbering upper right, mostly in Roman figures. Several of the copy drawings are signed or countersigned by artists other than Stokes.
Inscribed in ink on first (paper) page, ‘Presented to / The Society of Antiquaries of London / by Miss Margaret Stokes / January 12th. 1882.’
Contains 12 card pages, each supporting one drawing on paper or vellum, mostly window mounted, numbered here 1–12. Each bound in, using a cloth strip to the left of the card mount. On the card pages themselves there is inconsistent and partly deleted old numbering upper right, mostly in Roman figures. Several of the copy drawings are signed or countersigned by artists other than Stokes.
Inscribed in ink on first (paper) page, ‘Presented to / The Society of Antiquaries of London / by Miss Margaret Stokes / January 12th. 1882.’
Creator
Stokes, Margaret McNair (1832-1900), illustrator, antiquarian and writer
Contents
- STM/02/01 - An ornament from the Ussher Codex I
- STM/02/02 - Carpet-page from the Book of Durrow
- STM/02/03 - The Evangelist Matthew from the Book of Durrow
- STM/02/04 - Evangelical Symbols from the Book of Durrow
- STM/02/05 - The Garland of Howth, St Matthew’s Gospel
- STM/02/06 - The Garland of Howth, St Mark’s Gospel
- STM/02/07 - The Gospel of Mulling, figure of St John the Evangelist
- STM/02/08 - The Book of Dimma, figure of St Matthew
- STM/02/09 - The Ricemarch Psalter, Psalm 52
- STM/02/10 - The Ricemarch Psalter, Psalm 119
- STM/02/11 - The Ricemarch Psalter, Psalm 1
- STM/02/12 - Decorated Page, with the Madonna and Child, from the Book of Hours of Yolande of Navarre