Manuscript entitled ‘Traite du Blazon’.
Scope and Contents
The treatise is in thirty-five chapters and is followed (folio 105) by explanatory notes to the illustrations, and (folio 127) by the illustrations themselves, which are in trick. It is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a diagram of the divisions of a field.
Three folios which probably contained the title page and dedication have been removed from between folios 2 and 3. Offsets of the dedication survive, from which it appears that the author`s name was Bonin, and that he presented his work to a Scottish judge and Privy Councillor, possibly Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh or Sir Thomas Wallace, Lord Craigie.
Dates
- Creation: 1678.
Extent
0.00 Linear metres (134 folios. Octavo.)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Bound in part of a vellum document.
Custodial History
The manuscript was bought by the Advocates’ Library in 1723 at the sale of Sir Robert Sibbald`s library.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented, 1925, by the Faculty of Advocates to the nation on the foundation of the National Library of Scotland.
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland
- Date
- 13 07 2015
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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