Coats of arms. devices (symbols).
Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:
15th-century manuscript containing the first statutes of the Ordre de Saint-Michel drawn up in 1469, but not those of 1476.
Armorial coats-of-arms of the Scottish gentry, drawn first in pencil, then inked over, a very few being partially coloured.
At the beginning 30 folios have been left blank and the last drawings, on folio 47, have not been completed. From the watermark and the hand, the manuscript may be dated to the late 16th century; it is possibly an English production as many Scottish family names have been misspelt in a non-Scottish manner.
Arms of the Scottish nobility, 1581, bound with leaves of another Scottish armorial dating from ca. 1645 and some heraldic fragments.
‘Catalogue and succession of the Kings ... of this Realme of England' ([London], 1622), by Ralph Brooke., 1622, [circa 1804].
The notes by John Borthwick include some observations by Thomas Hamilton, Lord Binning, on the claims of the Borthwicks of Crookston to the title of Lord Borthwick (folio 1 verso).
'Collection of some coats of arms and fragmental genealogical researches on the house of Horn ...' by Major George M Horn., [1927.]
Reproduced from typescript with coloured illustrations.
Copy of the statutes of the Order of the Garter presented to James V of Scotland when he was invested with the order in 1535., 1535.
The text is preceded by a large drawing in colour (most of the silver in which is oxidized) of the royal arms of England (impaled with those of St George) and of Scotland (folio ii verso). The preface and the first of the statutes are introduced by large illuminated initials and the remainder by small gold initials within alternate red and blue squares. Lacking the seal formerly attached to the cords visible at folios 1 and 18 verso.
Correspondence and papers of Louisa Kathleen Haldane concerning her parents, Coutts and Harriet A Trotter of Dreghorn, and their ancestors.
Correspondence and papers of the publisher, Robert Cadell, and of his grandchildren in the Stevenson family.
Robert Cadell (1788-1849) was the partner of Archibald Constable, and, after the dissolution of that partnership in 1825, the sole publisher of Walter Scott's novels. His papers reflect his personal and business relations with Scott and other authors, as well as his family affairs.
Diploma certifying the award of the insignia of office as Protonotary Apostolic to Giovanni Paolo Pongelli at Camerino, 1582., [1566, or after]-[1589, or after.]
With a copy of Giovanni Paolo Pongelli's doctoral diploma, 1582 (folio 11) and privilege of citizenship of Camerino, 1589 (folio 20). Illuminated with the arms of Pongelli and two cardinals.
'Disegni ad illustrazione della Divina Commedia, di Dante Alighieri...' being a collection of prints, drawings, etc., archaeological, topographical, and heraldic, formed by Elizabeth Macleod of Cadboll., 1842-1848.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
'Disegni ad illustrazione della Divina Commedia, di Dante Alighieri, il Paradiso', being a collection of prints, drawings, etc., archaeological, topographical, and heraldic, formed by Elizabeth Macleod of Cadboll., 1842-1848.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
'Disegni ad illustrazione della Divina Commedia, di Dante Alighieri, il Paradiso', being a collection of prints, drawings, etc., archaeological, topographical, and heraldic, formed by Elizabeth Macleod of Cadboll., 1842-1848.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
'Disegni ad illustrazione della Divina Commedia, di Dante Alighieri, il Paradiso, parte seconda', being a collection of prints, drawings, etc., archaeological, topographical, and heraldic, formed by Elizabeth Macleod of Cadboll., 1842-1848.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
'Disegni ad illustrazione della Divina Commedia, di Dante Alighieri, il Purgatorio', being a collection of prints, drawings, etc., archaeological, topographical, and heraldic, formed by Elizabeth Macleod of Cadboll., 1842-1848.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
'Disegni ad illustrazione della Divina Commedia, di Dante Alighieri, l'Inferno', being a collection of prints, drawings, etc., archaeological, topographical, and heraldic, formed by Elizabeth Macleod of Cadboll., 1842-1848.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
'Disegni ad illustrazione della Divina Commedia, di Dante Alighieri, l'Inferno', being a collection of prints, drawings, etc., archaeological, topographical, and heraldic, formed by Elizabeth Macleod of Cadboll., 1842-1848.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
'Disegni ad illustrazione della Divina Commedia, di Dante Alighieri, l'Inferno, parte seconda', being a collection of prints, drawings, etc., archaeological, topographical, and heraldic, formed by Elizabeth Macleod of Cadboll., 1842-1848.
The manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries include the ‘Hawthornden Manuscripts’, MSS.2053-2067, the papers of William Drummond of Hawthornden and of his uncle, William Fowler.
Early 16th-century manuscript of the allegorical poem 'Le Chevalier délibéré' by Olivier de la Marche, composed in 1483.
Extracts, early 19th century, made from a copy of the Lyon Register belonging to Andrew Plummer of Middle Steed and Sunderland Hall.
There are additions up to 1822 by the copyists David Deuchar, and his son Alexander, the seal-engravers.
The volumes are interleaved with pages engraved with blank shields, some of which have been completed in watercolours or in trick to illustrate the text.
Extracts made from a copy of the Lyon Register belonging to Andrew Plummer of Middle Steed and Sunderland Hall., 1672-1822.
Genealogy of the family of Harry Robertson, Minister of Kiltearn., [Circa 1890.]
'Geschlecht Buch dess Heiligen Reichs Stat Nürnberg Darinen alle alte und neue Adeliche Geschlecht daraus der Rath von 300 Jaren hero erwöhlth wordn Hierin zusamgebracht Anno 1610’, being histories, in different hands, of Nürnberg families.
Each history is preceded by an engraving of a figure with the arms of the family.
Grant signed by Cardinal Francesco Sforza to Baldassare Zuccola of Burmio and his successors of the titles of Miles Auratus, Comes Palatinus, and Comes Aulae Lateranensis., 1622.
The grant quotes as authority a letter, 1539, of Pope Paul III conferring on the Sforza family of Sta Fiora (Sforza, Carlo, Mario, Paolo, and Alessandro and their descendants) these titles and the right to grant them.
Written in gold and black.
Arms of Cardinal Sforza, coloured, on folio 1 verso.
‘History of the baronetage of Scotland and Nova Scotia’ by Robert Riddell: volume I., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
'Illustrations of the genealogy of Sir Coutts Trotter', 1st Baronet of Westville, being an abridgement, 1830, of a manuscript genealogy then in Trotter’s possession of the various branches of the family of Moubray, his maternal ancestors., 1830.
The title is taken from folio 5.
The abridgement was made by John Philp Wood for presentation to Alexander Trotter of Dreghorn, brother of Sir Coutts.
A drawing of the arms of Sir Coutts Trotter is pasted inside the front cover.