Described Hardwick & Luard: i.437–8.

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f. 103

First as herowdis recordyn was atte siege of troye withyne the town and withoute for the nobilnesse of the deedis that wer shewid on bothe parties and for as moche as ther was so hwge a multitude of peeple that oon myht nat be knowe from anothir of ther poyntis of worship causid the kynges withyne the toun and withoute to drawe …

f. 106

… and yiff he bere in this wise ye must say he berith siluer and goul belly he berith siluer a mawnshe goul he berith siluer a bowge sabill.

‘Hic incipit bonus tractatus de armis in anglicis’ (f. 103). Illustrated with coloured drawings of shields on ff. 104v–105 and in the margins of ff. 104, 105v–106. Heraldic treatise, known as the ‘Ashmolean Tract’ apparently derived from the Tractatus de armis of Johannes De Bado Aureo (the version in BL Add 34648 has a translator's prologue which attributes the translation to ‘John’, and states that the text was translated from De Picturis Armorum). Wells Rev. 10:3930 [497]. IPMEP 223, where the reference to BodL Laud misc. 733 should be deleted.

Other texts: Wells Rev. 10 lists 9 MSS. For a copy already indexed see IMEP 9 indexing BodL Ashmole 15(A) (= Ashmole Rolls 4) [1]. In IMEP 12 (p. 2), Hanna, indexing a different heraldic text in BodL Eng. misc. d.227 [1], notes another copy in BodL Lat. misc. e.86 and three transcriptions made by Francis Pierrepont Barnard in BodL Eng. misc. c. 152 ff. 622–49 (from the BodL Lat. misc. e.86, BodL Ashmole Rolls 4, and CUL Dd.10.52).

s. xv ex.