Beinecke MS 617
England, c. 1480??
List of English knights with their blazons, in French

ff. 313r-321v	// Sir William Brannson, pale de argent e de asure a une bende de goules e III 
egles de or. Sir William Vesci, de or a une crois de sable. Sir Edward Burnell, de argent a un lion 
de sable corone de or. Sir William Martyn, de argent a II barres de goules ... Shropshyre. Sir 
William de Bottiller, de goules crusule d'or a une fesse chekere d'argent et de sable. Sir Rauf le 
Bottiller, de goules a une fesse chekere d'or et de sable, en le chef II moles d'or. Sir William le 
Bottiller de Wemme, de azur a une bende e VI coupes d'or. Sir William Pichard Meyand, les 
armes a un labell d'azur. [there follow 11 names added by a later hand].

The names are arranged by counties. The names of the counties are written by the same hand in 
the left margin and the total number of names in a county is sometimes added. Apart from the 
first group, the beginning of which is lost, they are:  "Cornewaille e Devenshyre", "Dorset e 
Somersett", "Wylteshire e Hampershere", "Sussex e Surrey", "Kent", "Middelsex" , 
"Barkeshyre", "Oxenfordshyre", "Bokinghamshyre", "Bedfordshyre", "Hertfordshyre", "Essex", 
"Sowthfolke", "Northfolk", "Cambrygshyre", "Derby e Nottingham", "Le Counte de Nichele", 
"Leycetershyre", "Warwykshyre", "Wyrcestreshyre", "Gloucestreshyre", "Herefordshyre", 
"Chestreshyre", Shropshyre". In the lower margins the number of names recorded on each page is 
mentioned (about 50).


Paper, ff. II + 8 + VIII, 305 x 205 mm. Watermark The manuscript is a section of a large 
manuscript and is foliated "313"-"321" (f. "318" is missing). Edges and folds of most leaves 
repaired.

Written in one column, the left margin is marked by a vertical fold in the paper. There is no 
horizontal ruling and the number of lines per page varies. 

Copied by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary).

Binding s. XX: half leather (dark brown sprinkled calf) over cardboard covered with blue-grey 
marbled paper. On the spine gold-tooled inscription "ENGLISH KNIGHTS. MS - ABOUT  - 
1480"

Gift of Mrs. Richard Gimbel, 27 October 1976.

Bibliography:
Shailor, "Acquisitions", p. 100.

Albert Derolez

R 02.06.08