Two halves of a single leaf from the important heraldic manuscript known as The Military Roll

Item date: 15th century

Grant Value: 300

Item cost: 1,000

Item date acquired: 1974

Item institution: British Library

Town/City: London

The Major part of the roll was already at the BL. It shows a lively series of coloured drawings of equestrian knights engaged in combat with sword and lance, their tabards and horse trappings dislaying their arms. Illustrated as frontispiece to AR

Item Provenance

Sir Thomas Holme, Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms 1505 - 1534, but these leaves separated from main body of toll sometime after it was in the possession of William Smith, Rector of Melsonby (d.1735)