An interesting post yesterday by @sbschliep over on the Collation blog at the Folger Shakespeare Library, about the acquisition of the Vincent copy of the First Folio.

The eponymous Vincent is officer of arms Augustine Vincent, who eventually rose to the position of Windsor Herald at the College of Arms, though at the time he was gifted a copy of the First Folio (1623) he was still Rouge Croix Pursuivant. (He succeeded John Guillim in this office on Guillim's death in 1621).

A large collection of Vincent's heraldic manuscripts are still held by the College of Arms. MS Vincent 87 and 151 are on my list to consult; the latter because it contains an image of Guillim in the funeral procession for Prince Henry in 1612, the former because Guillim either wrote or copied it, and his son later sent out copies of this material as Christmas presents.

#Heraldry #Guillim #Vincent #Manuscripts #FirstFolio #Folger #Earlymodon #EarlyModern

https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/vincent-first-folio-part1/

4+ years ago I started transcribing Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.a.447 (John Guillim's heraldic notebook) from digitised images. This is the MS that started my researching Guillim.

For some reason the images for folios 39r-44v were missing. My contact at the Folger said there was no reason they shouldn't have been digitised, and the metadata on the images was probably wrong.

Periodically I have checked to see if this has been sorted, and today I found it has!
Now to finish transcribing, and then finish encoding in TEI!

#Folger #FolgerFinds #Va447 #Guillim #transcribing #heraldry #TEI

The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England is apparently out now. The table of contents looks really good (see thread), but at a couple of hundred dollars I don't think I'll be getting my own copy, even if "Guilliam's Heraldry" does make an appearance in the cover image!

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-history-of-the-early-modern-book-in-england-9780198846239?cc=us&lang=en

#EarlyModern #BookHistory #Guillim

Serendipity strikes again!
I've found another manuscript containing the texts in my "Discommodities" cluster

The other day I was listening to an interview of @overholt on a student podcast, and part-way through he mentioned the Houghton's visting fellowships. This prompted me to go and check Harvard's catalogue. I didn't find any MSS of relevance to m, there, but started looking at other US libraries with fellowship programs, which led me back to Yale's Beinecke Library.

I had previously ordered a copy of a Guillim-related MS, but couldn't remember the spelling (turns out it was Gwyllym), so entered Funerals as the keyword instead, and came across an entry for a MS of "Ancient orders and ceremonies respecting the processions, funerals, habiliments of the several degrees of noble estate" by Sir John Harington

Turns out this is BL Add MS 27632, and it has been digitised as part of the EEBO Tracts supplement

#BookHistory #Guillim #Beinecke #Heraldry

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZO1aW8MMLxC2z9fYGi6hA?si=5q68vXApTpuYbO05SRtukg&nd=1

My Court of Requests case from 1600 involving John Guillim is the archival document that keeps on giving.

At one point the defendant says "one Henrie Blome gent did pretend the said landes by vertue of a statute knoweledged by the Complaynant & had a liberate therof"

This somewhat cryptic sentence means that Guillim had made a financial transaction with Blome, secured by a "recognizance in the nature of a statute merchant". This was a stronger form of bond, and if he defaulted, allowed the debt to be recovered from his goods or lands. That is what happened here, and Blome sued out a writ of Liberate.
(h/t to the UK National Archives for the very helpful administrative background section in the catalogue entry)

The key point is that these recognizances had to be recorded, and the entry books survive in The National Archives, in series LC 4, which could lead me to further information.

#EarlyModern #Archives #Guillim #StatuteMerchant #LegalHistory