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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.76) | |
|---|---|
| Language: | English |
| Origin: | England, ?York |
| Date: | 20th c., ca. 1918 - 1961 |
| Material: | Paper (factory made) |
| Physical Description: | i paper flyleaf + 36 folios + i paper flyleaf, 301 x 223 (210 – 220 x 135) mm, ca. 14 lines, ruled in pencil |
| Rubric: | N/A |
| Incipit: | Barking [St Margaret’s] on a silver gilt cup |
| 2o folio: | Ockendon, North, in |
| Explicit: | N/A |
| Contents: | Fols. 1r – 28r, Heraldry on church plate in Essex; fol. 29r, Index (incomplete); fol. 30r, Pedigree of the family of Marney of Layer Marney, Essex; fol. 30v, Pedigree of family of Bullen or Boleyn of Blickling, Norfolk, and Hever, Kent; fol. 31r, Pedigree of the family of Bardwell and Harleston (incomplete) |
| Script: | Cursive (pseudo-Secretary) |
| Scribe: | George Edward Larman (1895 – 1961) |
| Artist: | George Edward Larman (1895 – 1961) |
| Decoration: | 5 achievements of arms, 63 shields of arms and 13 crests, painted or drawn and prepared for painting, fols. 1r – 28r; 1 historiated initial [ca. 4 l.] in gold on a quartered pink and blue ground with white diaper and foliate patterns for entry for Bulmer (St Andrew’s) fol. 16r [arms of Ulster and Ireland]; ornamental initials [ca. 4 l.] in shaded blue or gold on pink or red grounds with white foliate motifs for towns and significant villages; three-sided bar-borders with minor spraywork and foliate motifs, fols. 1r – 28r; shields of arms (most blank) for pedigrees, fols. 30r – 31r |
| Provenance: | George Edward Larman (1895 – 1961); his bequest, 1961 |
| Binding: | 19th / 20th c., brown leather over paste boards, blue and cream endbands (probably produced as a blank notebook) |
| Notes: | Only rectos used, fols. 1r – 28r. Larman was born in Essex, and was a student at Trinity Hall 1914 – 1918. |
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| © Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
