The Dering Brasses
| Autor: | R. H. D'Elboux |
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| Rok vydání: | 1947 |
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| Zdroj: | The Antiquaries Journal. 27:11-23 |
| ISSN: | 1758-5309 0003-5815 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0003581500017546 |
| Popis: | There is, in the library of the Society of Antiquaries, part of the Franks bequest, an illustrated manuscript by Sir Edward Dering of Surrenden in Pluckley, Kent, of monuments (mainly brasses) and heraldry in various Kent churches noted by him from 1628 to 1634. The Surrenden copy of Philipot's 1619 Visitation of Kent, in Sir Edward's handwriting, was sold, with other manuscripts from Surrenden, at Sotheby's in 1865, the first dispersal of the Dering library having occurred in 1811. J. J. Howard possessed a copy of it which has recently come to rest, as part of the Elgood bequest, in the library of the Kent Archaeological Society at Maidstone. Some pedigrees have been maintained to about the date of this church visitation, and from the note under Robert Master of Willesborough ‘vid: booke of Monuments in Churches’ (he is duly entered in 1628 on folio 28), it is possible that the whole of Philipot's visitation was copied at about that date. Some of the drawings from this Book of Monuments were illustrated in volumes i and ii of Archaeologia Cantiana, at the instigation of the Rev. Mr. Lambert Larking, from facsimiles made of the whole manuscript by Mr. Herbert Smith. The Society of Antiquaries' manuscript is Smith's copy, and his notes on folio 5 and 5a establish the fact; in all his published illustrations, however, there are minor but obvious differences from the manuscript. |
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