Treatises on heraldry, Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Scope and Contents
The contents of the book are mostly printed. (1) Nicholas Upton, ‘De officio militari’, libri quatuor; (2) Johannes de Bado Aureo, ‘Tractatus de armis’. The two treatises occupy 194 pages and were printed together in 1654. They are followed by three short manuscript tracts written in the early sixteenth century: (3) ‘Tractatus de armis compositus per Dom. Bartholomeum’; (4) ‘Bonus tractatus de armis in anglicis’, beginning ‘First as herolldie reordyn was atte siege of Troye ...’; (5) ‘Liber magistri Gaufredi phisici di lapidibus’, beginning ‘Evax rex arabum legitur scripsisse Neroni ...’.
Dates
- Creation: Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 volume(s)
Language of Materials
Latin
English
Custodial History
In the Library by the mid 1750s.
Physical Description
Paper.
Repository Details
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