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Heraldry in the Decoration of English Medieval Manuscripts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

John A. Goodall
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The use of heraldic decoration in medieval books has been somewhat neglected, only a few have been the subject of detailed studies and some of these are less than satisfactory. The Tickhill Psalter group had the advantage of having been the first to use the medieval rolls for comparanda, although the importance of the background decoration and line fillers as part of the overall pattern was not realised, accordingly a re-examination of all of these books is desirable. Unfortunately the book also gave renewed currency to the erroneous identification of the heraldry in the so-called Grey–FitzPayne hours at Cambridge which has long been regarded as closely dated to 1308 and hence a key manuscript for the chronology of the early fourteenth century books.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 77 , March 1997 , pp. 179 - 220
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1997

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