Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MANUSCRIPT.) A Roll of Arms Temp Hen III AD 1216-78 Cott MS Tiberius E VIII. illustrated manuscript on paper, comprising stencilled title on blue paper; 29 leaves with 461 mounted pencil and ink drawings of coats of arms, arranged 16 per page and captioned in ink, almost all hand-colored; and 5 leaves with handwritten index in ink. 229x187 mm, later 19th-century 1/2 leather, scuffed; contents generally clean. Np, later 19th century

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Copied from Cottonian MS Tiberius E VIII, 2 volumes of miscellaneous historical and heraldic papers in the collection of manuscripts formed by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571–1631), his son, and grandson, and now in the British Library.