Title: Medieval pageant :
Authors: Wagner, Anthony Richard,; Barker, Nicolas.; Payne, Ann.; Writhe, John,; British Library.; Roxburghe Club.
Date: 1993
Publisher: The Roxburghe Club,
Physical description: xxi, 100, 78 p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), facsims., coats of arms, geneal. tables ; 47 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: C
Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Note -- Writhe’s Garter Book -- The knighthood of the Bath and the beginning of the book -- The Earldom of Salisbury Roll and its copies -- Interlude: Dugdale and the graphic preservation of antiquity -- The restoration: the book described -- John Anstis: the book and the roll discovered -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Genealogy of the Earldom of Salisbury -- Index
Notes: Description and facsimile of sections from the Duke of Buccleuch's 15th-century heraldic manuscript known as Writhe's Garter book; one section is completed from British Library ms. Additional 45133. The Earldom of Salisbury roll contains portraits and coats of arms of the Montagu ancestors of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick. "Dedicated and presented to the president and members of the Roxburghe Club by the Duke of Buccleuch, 1993."--P. [vii]. Ex copy has ts. and ms. letter from the Duke of Buccleuch to Charles Ryskamp laid in.
Subject headings (LCSH): Chivalry; Facsimiles.; Heraldry--England--Pictorial works.; Heraldry--England.; Manuscripts, English--Facsimiles.; Montague family--Portraits.; Order of the Bath--Pictorial works.; Order of the Bath--Rites and ceremonies--Pictorial works.; Portraits.