Manuscripts

[Palmer Family genealogical roll of arms

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Description: Modeled on genealogical rolls of the late medieval kings of England, this roll of arms, signed by Robert Cooke, Clarenceaux King of Arms, claims to display the ancestry of the Palmer family from the eleventh- or twelfth-century progenitor Henry Palmer to the four sons of Edward Palmer (ca. 1550-1624), a wealthy landowner in England and the New World. A crusader and a member of Henry VIII's Troop of Gentlemen number among the sixty-nine men and women identified here. The earlier portions of the genealogy, clearly calculated to show off illustrious ancestors and to highlight important connections through marriage, are difficult to verify. This roll does not provide the dates of birth or death for anyone in the Palmer pedigree, and only a few are linked definitively to a particular monarch's reign or to a specific historic event.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1575-1584 ]
Call number: mssHM 83385
Provenance: Purchased by the Library Collectors' Council from Les Enluminures, Paris, January 14, 2017. Edward Palmer (ca. 1550-1624) almost certainly commissioned the roll. It remained in the Palmer family into at least as late as the 18th century, when the roll was shown to Sir William Dugdale (who made note of it in his Antiquities of Warwickshire) by Giles Palmer.

First Calais roll of arms

Manuscripts

The present manuscript belongs to the first of two variant versions of the Calais Roll in circulation during the later sixteenth century. It includes details of the military retinues of each peer and knight as well as a summary of the 700 ships and more than 14,000 mariners of the English fleet, arranged by home port, and a few notes of other expeditionary expenses. The manuscript is skillfully and calligraphically designed and executed, with a colored frontispiece of the arms of Edward III, encircled by the Garter, and contains 116 heraldic coats of arms, professionally tricked. The decorative scheme of the manuscript is however unfinished, with only one of the arms colored in, although the scribe's instructions to the illuminator can be seen.

mssHM 72023

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Warrant to William Ongley to bear the arms of Hopson

Manuscripts

Document signed. Vellum roll. Arms emblazoned. Two seals in metal cases. Signed by Principle King of Arms, Sir George Nayler, and Clarenceux King of Arms, Ralph Bigland.

mssHM 2902

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Savillinae familiae...stemma...per Gulielmum Dugdale Norroy Regem Armorum

Manuscripts

This Saville family tree on a parchment roll was prepared by William Dugdale, Norroy King of Arms. There is some damage to the parchment and, sometime prior to 1967, modern wooden boards were glued to the top and bottom of the roll.

mssHM 82923

Prayer roll : [manuscript]

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Roll: [Prayer roll: Penitential psalms and litany; Short hours of the Dead; Short hours of the Conception; Prayers in Latin and in French].

mssHM 39467

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Cephas Arms letters

Manuscripts

This collection is comprised of letters that chronicle Cehpas Arms' wagon journey from Knoxville, Illinois to Stockton, California from 1849-1850. There are 22 letters addressed to his second wife Louisa A. Taylor, 1 letter from Taylor, and 1 letter to his mother Experience Gates Arms. The letters are detailed in terms of dates, locations, routes, events, acquaintances, and his spiritual reflections. Although he often remarks on the beauty of the natural landscape and flora, the harsh realities of the journey are reminded with each grave marker mentioned. Arms describes the difficulties faced by him and his team including encounters with Native Americans, illnesses, disastrous stampedes, loss of cattle, and the challenging terrain. While staying in Utah, Arms encounters Brigham Young and details his impression of the Mormons. Of the 24 letters, 18 include typewritten transcripts prepared by Louisa Barber Hoblit and Carrolle Barber Clark.

mssHM 83913-83936

Minnie Palmer

Visual Materials

Image of actor Minnie Palmer portraying multiple different stage characters in a single scene, with Palmer dressed as a male impersonator in the military uniform of a naval cadet standing before a fireplace and smoking a cigarette, while Palmer, dressed as a bootblack, falls out of the fireplace, Palmer dressed as a maid with two lap dogs looks on, and a miniature version of Palmer bent over to rearrange her dress stands on the fireplace mantle; with a portrait of Palmer in formal dress and a picture of a beach labeled "Long Branch" hanging above the mantle; the poster presumably advertises Palmer's play "My Brother's Sister" written by Leonard Grover in which she appears as those characters.

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[Palmer Family genealogical roll of arms

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