Autograph manuscript, signed, on paper, of a list of many of the Knights of the Round Table and summaries of their histories as given in Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Some entries are accompanied by pen and ink drawings of coats-of-arms. The work may have been modeled on Les devise des armes de chevaliers de la table ronde, published by Antoine Verard. Grimken's preface notes that he has not included "many faned and vaine taylles" and connects his interest in the Round Table with the archery fellowship founded by "Kynge Henry of fames memory," Prince Arthur's Knights. The preface concludes with "vivat Regina."
Description:
Binding: eighteenth-century full calf; arms of John Lewis Goldsmid on front cover in gilt., Decoration: 33 armorial devices in ink; many blank shields in pencil., Ex libris John Louis Goldsmid; ex libris Sir Isaac Heard; Phillipps MS 100. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of 26 lines each., and Script: secretary.
Subject (Name):
Arthur,--King--Early works to 1800., Goldsmid, John Louis,--1789-1835--Bookplate., Grinken, John., Heard, Isaac,--Sir,--1730-1822--Bookplate., and Phillipps, Thomas,--Sir,--1792-1872--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Arthurian romances--Dictionaries., Arthurian romances--Early works to 1800., English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700., Manuscripts, Renaissance--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.