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Coats of arms. devices (symbols).

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Devices that include the full display of armorial bearings: the escutcheon plus its adjuncts (helm, crest, mantling, motto, supporters).

Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:

'Regum Principumque Christiani Orbis Terrarum fere Omnium Genealogia. Item, Archiepiscoporum et Episcoporum aliquot Catalogus. Wilhelmus Smith, Anglus, fecit et possidet. Anno 1587.' The compiler was, presumably, William Smith, Rouge-Dragon Pursuivant.

 File
Identifier: MS.2516
Scope and Contents

The Genealogia, every page of which is within a coloured border, gives coats of arms, emblazoned; there is an index to it (folio 1). Following the Genealogia come the Catalogus (folio 29); short drafts for parts of the Genealogia (folio 31); a broadsheet, ‘The Succession of the Kings of England’ (London, 1687) (folio 34); and a genealogy showing the royal connections of various English families from early times (folio 37).

Dates: 1587.

Scottish armorial, probably produced in England between 1633 and 1641, entitled 'Painted peerage of Scotland being the armorial bearings of all the nobility of Scotland beautifully done in water colours in Charles the Ist' time.'

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14107
Content Description An armorial of the Scottish peers, containing coats of arms of the Scottish nobility, possibly created in England for the benefit of Englishmen who had received Scottish titles. The 14 coats of arms, beginning with the Scottish royal arms, are painted in watercolour on engraved templates showing the outlines of shield and name label, and varying styles of helmet, mantle and other marks of rank. A few blank and unfinished templates illustrate the process. The armorial records the...
Dates: ca. 1633-1641

Scottish armorial, probably produced in England in the late 16th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.19610
Scope and Contents

This armorial is closely related to MS.10338; the text in both manuscripts is the same, but the names of some of the Scottish queens are omitted in MS.19610 (folios 2-3) and the reference to James VI as king of England (folio 4 verso) is added in the margin. The coats of arms were originally in trick and have been painted.

Dates: Late 16th century, ?1627.

Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.

 Item
Identifier: MS.6299
Scope and Contents There is an index on folio 1; the songs begin on folio 5.The Scottish songs appear to come mainly from Allan Ramsay's ‘Tea table miscellany’ and David Herd's ‘Ancient and modern Scottish songs’ (1776), though some of the songs may have been picked up by ear, as they include a very debased version of Henry Carey's 'Sally in our alley' (folio 17 verso) and "My heart's in the Highlands" in an apparently unknown version different from that of Burns (folio 81 verso)....
Dates: 18th century.

'The Arms of Noblemen, Knights, and others who have been Recorded in the Books of the Lyon Office at Edinburgh. [Compiled, over a period of years at the end of the seventeenth century, by] Henry Frazer, Ross Herauld & Painter'.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2564
Scope and Contents

Henry Frazer’s signature is on page 710.

There are additions throughout in various hands including that of David Deuchar, Seal Engraver, Edinburgh, who also compiled the indexes (cf. Adv.MSS.35.6.15-35.6.16). There are thirteen coats crudely emblazoned and a sketch of the seal of office of the Lyon King of Arms.

Dates: Late 17th century.

‘Two Leith Admiralls’: a descriptive account of two late 15th century Scottish naval commanders, Andrew Barton and Sir Andrew Wood.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.19
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is written in purple ink in an unidentified hand of the late 19th century. Included are coloured drawings of the arms of Andrew Barton and Sir Andrew Wood (folios 2, 10).

The account, which is derived from printed sources, appears to have been the tenth part, consisting of pages 32-44, of a work written to illustrate the history, or the notable associations, of the port of Leith.

Dates: Late 19th century.

Volume entitled `Statuti della Mercanzia` (folio 1) containing a copy in a 17th-century hand of the statutes on trade enacted under Francesco de` Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, shortly after his accession in 1574.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.24.2.9
Scope and Contents

The text of the work, which is in three books, is preceded by an engraved title page (folio 1), lists of contents (folio 3) and an index of the most frequently occurring topics (folio 7), and is followed by additional statutes dated 1522-1523, 1526, 1528, 1613, and other material (folio 184).

Dates: 1522-1613.