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Medieval Pageant : Writhe's Garter Book : The Ceremony of the Bath and the Earldom of Salisbury Roll.
Wagner, Sir Anthony ; Barker, N. ; Payne, A. ; Writhe, J. ; Roxburghe Club.
Published by Roxburghe Club, London, first edition, 1993, 1993
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Tan quarter morocco and blue cloth, vellum corner tips, top edge gilt. 47 cm xxi, 100 pp, 78 pp of plates (one folding). From the preface: "The second, third and fourth sections were written and painted by or for John Writhe, Garter King of Arms from 1478 till 1504" Contents : Preface; Introduction; Note; 1 Writhe's Garter Book;… 2 The Knighthood of the Bath and the Beginning of the Book; 3 The Earldom of Salisbury Roll and its Copies; 4 Interlude: Dugdale and the Graphic Preservation of Antiquity; 5 The Restoration: the Book Described; 6 John Anstis: the Book and the Roll Discovered; Epilogue; Appendices; A Description of the Contents of Writhe's Garter Book; B Contemporary Accounts of the Bath Ceremony; C Oldys's Description of Writhe's Garter Book; D Anstis's Draft from 'Collectanea'; E the Reversal of the Neville Arms; F Personages in the Earldom of Salisbury Roll; Genealogy of the Earldom of Salisbury; Index; The Plates. The copy of Christopher Dobson, sometime librarian of the House of Lords, with his name printed in red in the list of Members. Two short scratches to front board, otherwise Fine.