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CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS
[384-
Contents by Sancroft.
Collation: i8 (+frontispiece) 28-i/8.
Done for a private owner; see below.
i a blank. On i b a frontispiece, full page, bordered with frame
of feather-work and flowers. Within this is a frame of gold, en-
closing a medallion also framed in gold. The intermediate ground
is black, with flourishing, and patterns in silver and colour. The
medallion is a coloured representation of a seal, outer border blue ;
next, a white band inscribed : then a narrow blue band. Then the
device of the seal: ground above red, with white mantling: leaves
and grass below. The device is a shield, quarterly 1 and 4 or a
castle azure 2 and 3 barry nebuly of or and aztire: supporters dexter
a female figure (crowned ?) sinister a man in plate armour. Sir C. R.
Peers was doubtful whether the 1st and 4th quarters and the 2nd
and 3rd had the same charge. The crest is badly obliterated. It
should seemingly be a crescent gzt, out of a ducal coronet or. The
coronet at least is visible. All is much defaced. Of the inscription
only about half is left nt • militis • quondam -magni • thesaurrzrii •
nobmo (or norm or novus...). This inscribed band is treated as
a strap, the curled ends projecting into the field.
I believe that the seal here represented is that of Sir Walter
Blount (1st Lord Mountjoy). Blount has two coats: (1) or a castle
azure, (2) barry nebuly of six pieces or and sable, which is very
near those in the MS. In Burke’s General Armory the supporters
are given as two knights in complete armour. The termination of the
name (-nt) suits. Sir Walter was Lord High Treasurer of England
in 1465 and was created Lord Mountjoy the same year. Before that,
in 1460, he had been treasurer of Calais. The difficulty is that he is
here ‘quondam thesaurarius ’ and yet not a Lord : and I do not know
that the treasurer of Calais was ‘ magnus thesaurarius.’ The word
following (‘nob...) might have been an epithet of Calais. However,
the positive evidence in favour of the Blount attribution is strong
and an explanation of the difficulty may yet be forthcoming.
f. i a is bordered with feather-work studded with gold and
flowers. There is a historiated initial, rubbed, representing a female
saint in white, blue and pink, with gold nimbus, holding something
which might be pincers, and taking a book from the hands of a man
in pink robe shot with gold who stands in the door of a stone
CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS
[384-
Contents by Sancroft.
Collation: i8 (+frontispiece) 28-i/8.
Done for a private owner; see below.
i a blank. On i b a frontispiece, full page, bordered with frame
of feather-work and flowers. Within this is a frame of gold, en-
closing a medallion also framed in gold. The intermediate ground
is black, with flourishing, and patterns in silver and colour. The
medallion is a coloured representation of a seal, outer border blue ;
next, a white band inscribed : then a narrow blue band. Then the
device of the seal: ground above red, with white mantling: leaves
and grass below. The device is a shield, quarterly 1 and 4 or a
castle azure 2 and 3 barry nebuly of or and aztire: supporters dexter
a female figure (crowned ?) sinister a man in plate armour. Sir C. R.
Peers was doubtful whether the 1st and 4th quarters and the 2nd
and 3rd had the same charge. The crest is badly obliterated. It
should seemingly be a crescent gzt, out of a ducal coronet or. The
coronet at least is visible. All is much defaced. Of the inscription
only about half is left nt • militis • quondam -magni • thesaurrzrii •
nobmo (or norm or novus...). This inscribed band is treated as
a strap, the curled ends projecting into the field.
I believe that the seal here represented is that of Sir Walter
Blount (1st Lord Mountjoy). Blount has two coats: (1) or a castle
azure, (2) barry nebuly of six pieces or and sable, which is very
near those in the MS. In Burke’s General Armory the supporters
are given as two knights in complete armour. The termination of the
name (-nt) suits. Sir Walter was Lord High Treasurer of England
in 1465 and was created Lord Mountjoy the same year. Before that,
in 1460, he had been treasurer of Calais. The difficulty is that he is
here ‘quondam thesaurarius ’ and yet not a Lord : and I do not know
that the treasurer of Calais was ‘ magnus thesaurarius.’ The word
following (‘nob...) might have been an epithet of Calais. However,
the positive evidence in favour of the Blount attribution is strong
and an explanation of the difficulty may yet be forthcoming.
f. i a is bordered with feather-work studded with gold and
flowers. There is a historiated initial, rubbed, representing a female
saint in white, blue and pink, with gold nimbus, holding something
which might be pincers, and taking a book from the hands of a man
in pink robe shot with gold who stands in the door of a stone