Armorial bindings in Canterbury Cathedral Library

Armorial bindings

in the collections of the Dean and Chapter
Canterbury Cathedral Library

7 August 2008
revised

David J. Shaw

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This page only includes items from the core collections of the Dean and Chapter. It does not contain items from the Howley-Harrison Library or from the Mendham and Elham collections.

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Archbishop George Abbot
(1562–1633)

Arms of Archbishopic of Canterbury, impaled with arms of Abbot (Gules, a chevron between three pears or)

device A: 50 x 44 mm

device B: 67 x 54 mm

device C: 99 x 80 mm

Johannes Meelfuehrer. S. Pauli ... Epistola ad Philippenses commentationibus perspicuis, : ... enarrata. 1628
W/C-2-9

Device A

England. Courts of Law and Equity. Relationes quorundam casuum selectorum ex libris Roberti Keilwey ... qui temporibus ... Henrici Septimi, & ... Henrici Octaui, emerserunt. 1602
W/C-3-32

Device B

Nicolaus, Gorranus. In Acta Apostolorum, et singulas apostolorum, Iacobi, Petri, Iohannis & Iudae Canonicas epistolas, & Apocalypsin commentarij. 1620
W/C-5-28

Device C

Full list of Canterbury Cathedral books with George Abbot's armorial stamp.

Westminster Abbey
Tudor Arms between Tudor Roses above the supposed arms of Edward the Confessor

Church of England. The Book of Common Prayer. London : Printed by the assigns of John Bill and by Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb, 1683.
W/B-6-21

Thomas Windsor, 6th Baron Windsor
(1591–1642)
Quarterly 1. Per Saltire twelve cross crosslets (Windsor) 2. Barry nebuly (Blount) 3. A fret (Echingham) 4. Vair (Gresley)

Augustinus Torniellus. Annales sacri, et ex profanis praecipui, ... quarta ... editione recogniti, ... aucti et locupletati. Antuerpiae : Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Balthasarem Moretum et viduam Ioannis Moreti et Io. Meursium, 1620.
W/B-4-18/19
Inscription on front free endpaper: Thomas Windesor 1622. virtus vera nobilitas

Cardinal Charles-Maurice Le Tellier
(1642–1710)
Cardinal's hat; crown; three 5-pointed stars; three lizards

Bibliotheca Telleriana, sive catalogus librorum bibliothecae ... Caroli Mauritii Le Tellier, ... Parisiis : E Typographia Regia [colophon:] curante Joanne Anisson, 1693.
W/B-5-3

M. Nicolas Malais has identified this stamp as the arms of Cardinal Le Tellier himself. His printed books, left to the Bibliothèque Ste-Geneviève, were bound in red morocco, so this copy of his catalogue bound in sprinkled calf was probably not from his library; it was perhaps a gift.
The book was part of a collection of books given to the Cathedral Library in 1714 by the Canterbury doctor and book collector Stephen Hunt who purchased many of his books in Paris.

Dutch prize binding
17th-century vellum with centre-piece stamp showing the arms of the city of Rotterdam.

William Cave, Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum historia literaria, : a Christo nato, usque ad saeculum XIV. ... Accedunt Scriptores Gentiles ... Duae appendices, ... ab ... saeculo XIV. ad ... MDXVII. ab ... authore correctae ... Editio novissima, ... Coloniae Allobrogum : Apud Gabrielem de Tournes & filios, 1720.
W/A-5-10

Identification by Philip Oldfield.
Reference: D. Pearson and R. Ovenden, 'Dutch prize bindings in Durham libraries', Quaerendo, 17/2 (1987) 153, figure d.
St John's College, Cambridge, has a prize binding with the same centre-piece stamp.

Armorial binding

A. Du Chesne, Historiae Normannorum scriptores antiqui. Paris, 1619.
From the library of William Somner, bought second-hand for 18s. Previous owner Thomas [ ].
Inscription on title page: Pretium 18s. W.S. and Thomas [....]

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Archbishop George Abbot (1562–1633) Arms of Archbishopic of Canterbury, impaled with arms of Abbot (Gules, a chevron between three pears or) device A: 50 x 44 mm device B: 67 x 54 mm device C: 99 x 80 mm	Johannes Meelfuehrer. S. Pauli ... Epistola ad Philippenses commentationibus perspicuis, : ... enarrata. 1628 W/C-2-9	Device A
	England. Courts of Law and Equity. Relationes quorundam casuum selectorum ex libris Roberti Keilwey ... qui temporibus ... Henrici Septimi, & ... Henrici Octaui, emerserunt. 1602 W/C-3-32	Device B
	Nicolaus, Gorranus. In Acta Apostolorum, et singulas apostolorum, Iacobi, Petri, Iohannis & Iudae Canonicas epistolas, & Apocalypsin commentarij. 1620 W/C-5-28	Device C
	Full list of Canterbury Cathedral books with George Abbot's armorial stamp.

Westminster Abbey Tudor Arms between Tudor Roses above the supposed arms of Edward the Confessor	Church of England. The Book of Common Prayer. London : Printed by the assigns of John Bill and by Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb, 1683. W/B-6-21

Thomas Windsor, 6th Baron Windsor (1591–1642) Quarterly 1. Per Saltire twelve cross crosslets (Windsor) 2. Barry nebuly (Blount) 3. A fret (Echingham) 4. Vair (Gresley)	Augustinus Torniellus. Annales sacri, et ex profanis praecipui, ... quarta ... editione recogniti, ... aucti et locupletati. Antuerpiae : Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Balthasarem Moretum et viduam Ioannis Moreti et Io. Meursium, 1620. W/B-4-18/19 Inscription on front free endpaper: Thomas Windesor 1622. virtus vera nobilitas

Cardinal Charles-Maurice Le Tellier (1642–1710) Cardinal's hat; crown; three 5-pointed stars; three lizards	Bibliotheca Telleriana, sive catalogus librorum bibliothecae ... Caroli Mauritii Le Tellier, ... Parisiis : E Typographia Regia [colophon:] curante Joanne Anisson, 1693. W/B-5-3
	M. Nicolas Malais has identified this stamp as the arms of Cardinal Le Tellier himself. His printed books, left to the Bibliothèque Ste-Geneviève, were bound in red morocco, so this copy of his catalogue bound in sprinkled calf was probably not from his library; it was perhaps a gift. The book was part of a collection of books given to the Cathedral Library in 1714 by the Canterbury doctor and book collector Stephen Hunt who purchased many of his books in Paris.

Dutch prize binding 17th-century vellum with centre-piece stamp showing the arms of the city of Rotterdam.	William Cave, Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum historia literaria, : a Christo nato, usque ad saeculum XIV. ... Accedunt Scriptores Gentiles ... Duae appendices, ... ab ... saeculo XIV. ad ... MDXVII. ab ... authore correctae ... Editio novissima, ... Coloniae Allobrogum : Apud Gabrielem de Tournes & filios, 1720. W/A-5-10
	Identification by Philip Oldfield. Reference: D. Pearson and R. Ovenden, 'Dutch prize bindings in Durham libraries', Quaerendo, 17/2 (1987) 153, figure d. St John's College, Cambridge, has a prize binding with the same centre-piece stamp.

Armorial binding	A. Du Chesne, Historiae Normannorum scriptores antiqui. Paris, 1619. From the library of William Somner, bought second-hand for 18s. Previous owner Thomas [ ]. Inscription on title page: Pretium 18s. W.S. and Thomas [....]