12. Bull's head. The original is seven inches high. Ars Moriendi. 13-20. Bulls' heads. No. 20 is seven inches long. Brit. Mus., 318c. 1400. 21, 22. Anchors. See PLATE I. Brit. Mus., 318c. 22-26. Letters G, M, P, Y. See Sotheby's Principia Xylographica, xi., leaf 8, chap. 25. In the " Barclay "copy of the Apocalypse, the IHS are elaborately introduced in the style of the early English letters, and with crosses and flourishes. MSS. and the Apocalypse, Spenser copy. 1440, 1460. PLATE III. 1. Open hand. Archives Haarlem, British Museum, 318c. 1432. 2. Open hand. Letter written to the Archbishop of Bath. Archives Haarlem, British Museum, 318c. 1433. 3-5. Open hand, with heart. Cotton MSS. Caligula E vii. 205. 1573. 6. Open hand, with 3. From Rome. Cotton MSS. Caligula E, vii. 205. 1521. 7. Open hand, with cross. Museum, C 34c 11. 1598. Chapman's Works, British 8. Hand, with key. Archives Haarlem. 1427-8. 9. Hand, with bunch of grapes. 10. Hand, with star. Hatton Finch MSS. Dateless. 11, 12. Hand, with star. Cotton MSS. 14. Hand, horn or crescent and trefoil, and A B, in pedigrees of the Bacon family. Harleian MSS. 1393, fol. 85. 15. Hand, with crescent in palm. Shepherd's Garland— Drayton. British Museum, C 30e 21. 1593. 16. Hand, with 3. No star. Undated document, foreign. Hatton Finch MSS. 1393. 17, 18. Bugle. Account book, Hague, and letter to the Bishop of Durham. British Museum, 318c. 1421. 19. Bugle (in heart, trefoil). Paradise Lost; Andrew Mar vel's Verses. 1668. 20. Bugle in shield. Letter of Francis Allen, or Alleyne, to Anthony Bacon. Tennison MSS., Lambeth. 15921641. 21. Bugle in mirror, hearts, trefoil, etc. Bacon's History of Henry VII. 22. Bugle on shield, imperfect; and a bar on which is PAN. Quarles' Emblems. 1639. 23. Another. Paradise Lost. 1668. 24. Another. A Learned Discourse of Justification by Faith - Richard Hooker, D. D. 1631. 25. Bugle on shield made by olive wreath and crown, horns, trefoil. Observe the S S, and that the same shield is a pot in disguise. From Bacon's History Natural and Experimental, title page, and History of Life and Death, preface. 1658. 26-30. Specimens of innumerable fleur-de-lis, some 2 inches high, scattered about in the above works and MSS. 1. Horns of a bull. PLATE IV. MSS. Frankfort. British Museum, 2. Horns of a bull. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy; unique copy, presented by Burton to the Nation. British Museum, C 45c 30. 1621. 3-5. Horns of a bull. Molière's Works. 1682. 6. Horns of a bull, or cornucopeia, crown indistinct. Cotton, Nero vi. 132. 1632. Another in Shakespeare, 1632, and Cotton, Nero vi. 48. 7. Horns of a bull. Cotton, Nero vi. 368. Bullock pedigree. Harl. 1393, 8. Horn in shield, etc. Bullock pedigree. fol. 96. 10-12. Fool's cap and fragments. Quarles' Emblems. Dyce & Forster Library, S. Kensington Museum. 1676. 13. Fool's cap. Bagford collection, fol. 29. 14. Moor's head, with bandage pushed up from the eyes. (An allusion to the efforts being made to convert the Mahommedans?) Circa 1420. 15. Twisted horns. 16. Twisted horns. Advancement of Learning. 1605. 17. Triangle, hearts. Harl. MSS., 1393, 88. 18. Shield. Account book, Zuid, Holland. British Museum, 318c. 1469-1470. 19. Shield. Document, Frankfort on the Main. British Museum, 318c. 1470. 20, 21. Shield, other specimens. Dutch. 1460. 22, 23. Shields. Apocalypse, Haarlem. Early 15th century. 24. Shield, heart-shaped. Letter, H. Maynard to Anthony Bacon. Tennison MSS., Lambeth. 1592. 25, 26. Shield, heart-shaped. Poems of Michael Drayton. 1619. 27. Shield, heart-shaped. Letters of Sir Francis Bacon. Copies. Hatton Finch Collection. 28. Shield, heart-shaped. North's Plutarke. 1595. 29. Shield. Letter from Theodore Beza to Anthony Bacon. Tennison MSS., Lambeth. 1593. 30. Shield, heart-shaped. Letter unsigned. Cotton MSS. Nero, 229. 1590. 31, 34. Shield, heart-shaped, with R C. Advancement of Learning. 1640. 32. Shield, heart-shaped. Document. Cotton, Nero vi. 180. 33. Shield, heart-shaped. De Augmentis. Holland. 1652. PLATE V. 1. Shield, with Greek omega, and eight rays within. Cotton MSS. Nero vi. 62. Dateless. 2. Shield, with B, and the name NICOLAS. Cotton MSS. 3. Shield, with C R. Advancement of Learning. 1640. fol. 118. 5, 6. Shield (note horns and eye). From the Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare. 1632. 7. Shield (note bull face). Shakespeare. 1632. The Works of Joseph Mede. 9. Shield (note bull face). Modern mark, in L. Van Gelder's paper. 1890. 10. Mock shield, lions. George Herbert-The Temple. 1633. 11. History of Life and Death. 1638. 12. Advancement of Learning. 1640. 14. Fleur-de-lis. Coriolanus-Shakespeare. 1632. 15. Fleur-de-lis and crown. Apocalypse, Haarlem. Early fifteenth century. Large oval shields, lions, harp, fleur-de-lis, Harl. Bagford's Collection, 5892, fol. 5; other patterns, fols. 80, 96, 105, 122; others, with lions rampant, one five inches high, Bagford, 5896, 6. 17, 18. Bar. IR C. Cynthia's Revels-Ben Jonson. (Perhaps Jonson Rosy Cross?) PLATE VI. 1. Shield, chains, cabalistic marks. Works of J. Mede. 1652. 2. Shield, chains. The Rule of Conscience-Jeremy Taylor. 1671. 3. Shield, chains. Theophrastus Paracelsus - Opera Omnia. Geneva. 1658. Shield, chains and cross. Companion to the Temple — J. 4-9. Mock shield and fleur-de-lis. Commentary. 1648. "Diodati" Bible and 10. Bar. Shakespeare folio- Cymbeline, last page. CIRC. (Jonson Rosy Cross?) 1623. 11. Bar. Ben Jonson's Works-title-page and catalogue. 1640. (Anthony? This bar surmounted by large bunch of grapes.) 12, 13. Fleur-de-lis and pearls. Vestal Virgin (epil.)-Sir R. Howard. Circa 1450-1600. 14, 15. Spires rising from bulls' heads. Foreign paper. 16. Fleur-de-lis. Shakespeare-Cymbeline. 1632. 17, 18. Fleur-de-lis. The Merchant's Book of Commerce - Thos. Horne Cornhill. 1700. PLATE VII. 1-4. Crowns. Shakespeare, Works. 5-9. Crowns. Shakespeare, Works. Brit. Mus. copy. 1623, copy. 1623. 10. Crowns. Philomathes-Pleasure with Profit. 1594. 12. Crowns, with rose in pentagon. Hatton Finch MSS. 304. 4829 iv. 14. Crowns. diamond. Brit. Mus. Themata Varia. Hatton Finch MSS. 304. 15. Crowns. MS. 16, 18. Crowns. Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World. Several patterns. 1614. 19. Crowns. 1603. North's Plutarke. Brit. Mus. 10,605, i. 2. 20. Truth seated in triple ellipse, five pearls, diamond, trefoil, water, cross, crown. Joynson's foolscap paper. 1890. Another, one-tenth of an inch smaller, details different, Toogood's paper. Another in fly-leaf to book has Time as an old man instead of Truth. PLATE VIII. 1. Tower. Nuremberg Chronicle. Jo. Ames' collection, Bodleian library. 2. Castle-like candlesticks. A. Powlett French document. Cotton MSS. 73, 92. 3, 4. Pillars or candlesticks, drawn in Fenn's collection, pp. 8, 21. 5. Double candlesticks, with grapes, etc. Note the B. |