Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 28
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- The John Rylands Library
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- Latin MS 28
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- Latin
- French
- Spanish
- Title
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- Prayer to the Trinity
- Prologue
- Rome
- Germany. Headed by the badge (gold dragon vomiting flame) and banner (single-headed eagle) and crown of Sigismund.
- Spain. Headed by badge, banner, and crown of Castile and Leon, and by the style of Johannes dei gracia rex de castella de leon
- Device. Motto pour lasee amour, banner and crown of Aragon. Style of Alfonsus rex arragonum, etc.
- Sicily. Banner and crown.
- Catalonia
- Majorca
- Portugal
- Arms of Alfonsus, Count of Barcellos
- Navarre
- Naples
- Banner and three shields of nobles, Aurel a Urbaun, Masser. a. Nicolet, Zuff. a. Meil
- Description of Hungary
- Device, banner and crown of King of Hungary
- Nineteen shields of Hungarian nobles, with names
- Five shields drawn in pencil.
- Nine shields blazoned, without names
- Poland. Spanish text added. Banner and crown of Rex de pollonia
- Twelve shields, without names
- Banner and crown of the King of Bohemia
- Cyprus. Device (pour loyaute maintenir), banner and crown and style of James d. g. rex de Iherusalem de cipria et de armenia
- Banner of Knights of Rhodes (unfinished)
- Two shields copied from two on p. 103, in red and yellow
- Twenty shields
- A copy in red and yellow of a shield
- Five shields
- Four shields
- Banner and crown of Rex de Dina marga (Denmark).
- Four shields on each page
- Banner and coronet (a plain band), quarterly, 1 and 3 gu., two leopards passant or, 2 and 4 or, a lion rampant asure, langued gules, the field semee of billets of the second.
- Banner, coronet, shield, and device of Ludouicus dux in eselesia et de briga.
- Ten shields of nobles, with names
- Five shields, blank, in outline
- Fifteen shields, blazoned, with names
- Fifteen shields, blank, in outline
- Five shields, three in outline, with beginnings of blazon: two blank
- Full-page composition of the shield, banner, etc., of Ludouicus frater Elisabeth regine francie comes palatini renique bauarie dux et comes moritonii, etc.
- Five shields, one under a tent, with banners
- Thirty-four shields (German), all but one named
- Banner and coronet. Quarterly, 1 and 3 gules, a knight on a white horse: 2 and 4 or, a death or demon sable, with sword and shield of the same
- Eight shields, without crests
- Ten shields, with crests
- Three shields, with crests.
- Device, banner and coronet of the Duke of Savoy, followed by text
- Six shields (Savoyard) with names
- Banner of Prussia
- Two shields (Lerchtenberg and another)
- Two shields (Pelsewcz)
- Nameless banner and coronet. Party per fess
- Banner and coronet of Austria
- Twelve shields, named (Austrian)
- Banner and coronet of Samsonha (Saxony)
- Four small banners, supported by a gold crowned lion, and four shields, of Fredericus Lantgrauius Duringe (Thuringia)
- Five shields, three with names
- Banner and coronet of Brittany
- Banner and coronet of Orleans
- Four shields (French), not named
- Banner and coronet of Bregonha (Burgundy).
- Three shields, of Lanscolot de Bocheria, Antoninus de Bocheria, and another. The first has by it a man in green robe and hat, holding a sun with the letter N in centre
- Banner and coronet of Normandy
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- Agent
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- Preferred form
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- James Ludovic Lindsay (comte de Crawford, 1847-1913)
- Role
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- Former owner
- Original form
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- James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913
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- Lindsay, James Ludovic, Earl (1847-1913)
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic (1847-1913)
- James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), peer and collector
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, 1847-1913
- Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847-1913
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford 1847-1913
- James Ludovic Lindsay, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- James Ludovic Lindsay 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913, 26th Earl of Crawford
- James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford of Haigh Hall
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- Description
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- Extent:
ff. 111 (x+98+iii) Leaf height: 270 mm, width: 165 mm.
Binding:
Black morocco.
19th century
Acquisition:
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford. Bequeathed by Rylands to the John Rylands Library in 1908.
Layout:
2 columns to a page. 32 written lines for the first scribe; 46 written lines for the second
Collation:
8 endleaves of paper written
1 parchment endleaf
1 paper endleaf
Quire 18
Quire 28, 5 cancelled, 3 misplaced (now p. 25), 8 cancelled(?)
Quire 32
Quires 4-64, 4 cancelled
Quire 72, 2 cancelled
Quire 86
Quire 92
Quire 106, 4 cancelled
Quire 114
Quire 122
Quire 132
Quire 142, wants 2
Quire 154
Quire 164, 4 cancelled
Quire 174, 4 cancelled
Quire 182, 2 cancelled
Quire 196
Quire 202, 2 cancelled
Quire 216
Quire 224
Quire 234, 1 cancelled
Quire 246, 5 and 6 cancelled
Quire 252, 2 cancelled
Quire 262
Quire 274
Quire 28?4, 3 and 4 cancelled
Quire 294
Three paper endleaves
Data Source(s):
Description based on M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (München, 1980), revised and expanded by Joanne Edge.
Subject(s):
Heraldry
Abstract:
Armorial (a book of coats-of-arms), produced in 1416. Apparently unique. Made by a Portuguese herald, attending the Council of Constance.
Foliation:
Foliated 1-98. Previous pagination numbers still extant.
Format:
Codex
Material:
Parchment, with 8 paper endleaves at the front and 3 paper endleaves at the rear.
Provenance:
According to Eric Millar and M. R. James this manuscript appears to have been owned in 1795 by the owner of Bodleian MS. Douce 180 (see the note on pp. 5-6, 46 of James's edition of the latter, The Apocalypse in Latin and French (Bodleian MS. Douce 180) (Oxford, 1922. Roxburgh Club).
Additions:
On the third paper endleaf is an old pencil press-mark U. 6, and a note in English. On the five following is an imperfect table in English (18th century) of the principal contents of the book. Then follows a parchment endleaf with notes in English in the same eighteenth-century hand on the contents of the work. The next paper leaf is blank.
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