Manuscript of `The Variation of the Armes and Badges of the Kings of England from the tyme of Brute untill this present yeare of our Lord 1604` by Sir William Segar, with paintings of the arms (some of which are mythical) and, from Henry II onwards, of the badges.

Item

Identifier: Adv.MS.31.7.11

Scope and Contents

The work was intended for presentation to James I.

0.00 Linear metres (vi folios + 50 pages. Octavo.)

English

Vellum binding, gilt-stamped.

The manuscript was bought by the Advocates’ Library in 1723 at the sale of Sir Robert Sibbald`s library.

Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.

For another manuscript by Segar in the same style, see Adv.MS.31.4.5.

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