Swan History Vol. I
Reference code
TIC/01
Title
Swan History Vol. I
Date
mid 20th century
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
ff. 297.
Quarto.
Half leather binding, tan, with red boards.
Quarto.
Half leather binding, tan, with red boards.
Scope and content
ff 1-110 and f 260 to end, abstracts and extracts from published articles with added comments [for published articles see also TIC/018].
ff 112 – 258, The Order for Swannes, different texts transcribed and compared, using MSS, early printed broadsheets and published sources. Transcribed MS include the Burghley Swan-roll (Marquis of Exeter coll); Marriott Swan-roll (now private collection); Rawlinson Swan-roll (Bodleian Library); Elsing Hall, Norfolk, Swan-roll (all listed in Ticehurst 1957, pp. 76-77).
Illustrations include:
Drawings, pen and ink, from Order for Swans in possession of Mr Bromhead, Lincoln (f. 89, f. 90)
Photographs (2) of John Witherings Orders, printed 1632 (ff. 174, 178)
Tracing of a text section of Elsing MS (f.208)
ff 112 – 258, The Order for Swannes, different texts transcribed and compared, using MSS, early printed broadsheets and published sources. Transcribed MS include the Burghley Swan-roll (Marquis of Exeter coll); Marriott Swan-roll (now private collection); Rawlinson Swan-roll (Bodleian Library); Elsing Hall, Norfolk, Swan-roll (all listed in Ticehurst 1957, pp. 76-77).
Illustrations include:
Drawings, pen and ink, from Order for Swans in possession of Mr Bromhead, Lincoln (f. 89, f. 90)
Photographs (2) of John Witherings Orders, printed 1632 (ff. 174, 178)
Tracing of a text section of Elsing MS (f.208)
Creator
Ticehurst, Norman Frederic (1873-1969), surgeon, ornithologist and historian of swan marks
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/819/1-2