Armorial bookplates.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Bookplates displaying coats of arms or other armorial devices as a mark of ownership.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Copies of poems concerning Lanarkshire in an unidentified nineteenth-century hand.
File
Identifier: MS.20754
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) 'The Douglas bonspiel', with introduction and sequel (by Captain John Paterson; printed in J B Greenshields, ‘Annals of the Parish of Lesmahagow’ (Edinburgh, 1864), Appendix, pages 39-55) (page 1);
(ii) 'Review of the Douglas Upper Parish Rink As it Mustered In 1803-4 by One of the Rink' (page 31);
(iii) 'The Douglas party' (page 36);
(iv) 'Verses on a Dunghill' (page 37);
(v) 'To Thomas R. Scott Esq. Castlemains' (page 40);
(vi) 'Reflections on death'...
Dates:
19th century.
Manuscript of 'Panurgi Philo-Caballi-Scoti Poemata ... 1688', and ‘Panurgi Philo-Caballi-Scoti Grameidos libri sex 1691’.
Item
Identifier: MS.100
Scope and Contents
‘Panurgi Philo-Caballi-Scoti Poemata . . . 1688’ (folio 1); ‘Panurgi Philo-Caballi-Scoti Grameidos libri sex 1691’ (folio 9).
Dates:
1688, 1691.
'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.