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`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.32.7.1A-B
Dates:
1812-1841.
Collection of English arms in trick, probably compiled as a working notebook by herald painters in London, one of whom appears to have worked with Sir Henry Saint George, Garter King of Arms.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.6
Scope and Contents
The earliest section (folio 14) includes a number of mythological coats (for example, those of Cupid and the Nine Worthies) and some of members of the nobility and gentry from 1573 onwards. Many of the later additions are dated between 1630 and 1641. There are a few pedigrees and three indices to the compilation (folios i verso, 82 verso, and 86 verso). There is also a list of arms painters authorised in England (folio 88 verso), with a note `all theas in my life time kepte open shope and...
Dates:
Late 16th century-1664.
`Collection of illuminate arms` by Etherington Martyn, in 2 volumes, containing watercolour paintings of Scottish, English and a few foreign arms.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.1(i)-(ii)
Scope and Contents
In an introductory note (volume 1, folio iv.), Martyn states that many of the arms were unpublished, and taken from seals, drawings, paintings and manuscript blazons; also from a manuscript collection of heraldry `purchased at Mr Cummyngs sale by a Mr Rose`. This probably refers to James Cummyng, herald painter and Lyon Clerk Depute (died 1793). Martyn sometimes gives the source for a particular coat of arms, and occasionally criticises the heraldry.
Dates:
1794.
Lindsay Armorial: the armorial register of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms from 1542 to 1555.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.3
Scope and Contents
In 1630 the armorial was formally recognised by the Privy Council as an official register and a note to that effect, signed by Sir James Balfour, Lord Lyon, and Thomas Drysdale, Islay Herald, is on folio 110 verso.The manuscript was shown in the Heraldic Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1891 (see ‘Memorial Catalogue’, number 663).The contents are as follows:(i) Latin verses on and a painting of the royal arms (folio 1 verso).(ii) Arms of mythical...
Dates:
16th century-17th century.