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Title: Funeral ceremonies: containing an historical account of English funerals, tombs & monuments with specimens of funeral processions when conducted by officers of the Heralds College, taken from original manuscripts in the Harleian Library in the British Museum. With the death and funeral of Oliver Cromwell which cost the Commonwealth sixty thousand pounds. Also funeral trophies as hatchments, banners, bannerols, guidons, pencils, shaffrons, the great standard & pennon, the surcoat, helmet coat & mantling, also the shield, gauntlets, spurs &c. Ilustrated with 12 copper plates, containing upwards of 40 examples, neatly engraved with explanations whereby one person upon the sight of a hatchment, banner, or escutcheon, may know what the deceased was, when living, whether a gentleman or a nobleman, whether a married man, batchelor (sic) or widower, or whether a married woman, maid, heiress, or widow &c. Likewise alphabettically arranged the funeral ceremonies of various nations compiled from the best authorities /by Hugh Clark heraldic engraver & editor of the Introduction of heraldry.
Creator: Clark, Hugh, 1745-1822.
Contributor: Corder, Joan, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: about 1792
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript.
Scope/Content: Manuscript on funeral ceremonies and procedures from England and around the world, written by heraldry expert Hugh Clark. This work was apparently never published but it bears a manuscript title page formatted to imitate a printed one. The text also contains catchwords at the bottom of each page. This, however, does not represent a fair copy as there are many corrections, insertions and cancellations throughout. There are also some pasted-in clippings from printed sources, including one dated 1777. 12 hand-colored engraved armorial plates are inserted in a modern manila envelope pocket affixed to the rear paste-down endpaper and there are small hand-drawn diagrams throughout the text.
Condition: Bound in modern half calf with marbled boards and gilt spine.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Bookplates (Provenance)
Extent: [2], 68, [170] p. ;22 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1g31g
MS.2015.011
Language: English
eng
Subject: Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Place: England
Provenance: Book label of Joan Corder F.S.A. on front paste-down endpaper.
Location: CLUW

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