The Mirrour of Majestie, Or, The Badges of Honour Conceitedly Emblazoned

V. From Hillaire's Mirror of Heroes.

MDCXIII.

SPECVLVM HEROICVM Principis omnium temporum Poëtarum, HOMERI, &c. See Plate XXXVII.

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CONTENTS, *1 Title, with Effigies of Homer. *17, Latin, Greek, and French Stanzas on Homer's Effigies, by Marvllvs, Henricvs Stephanvs, and I. Ant. de Baif. 2-4 "Avsonii Bvrdegalensis Viri Con. et Poeta elegan. ingenii Periochæ (XXIII) in Iliadem.' *4v. Portrait and Latin stanza, "Nobilis Vir Isacq. Hilariq. Dms in Riviere A° 1613." Sig. BI-G4. The 24 plates for the 24 chief events in the 24 books of Homer's Iliad, with a Latin stanza of four lines to each plate. And also with Latin and French descriptive verses below each engraving.

The Plates, finely designed and executed, are by Crispin de Passe, and are in marked contrast with the imperfect type and negligent printing of the letter-press. It is a collection of engravings much sought for, but good copies, like the present, are rare.

The illustrative Photoliths from this work are

Plate XXXVII. The title of the SPECULUM HEROICVM.

Plate XXXVIII.

Lib. iii. Combat between Paris and Menelaus.

Plate XXXIX. Lib. vi. The conversation of Hector and Andromache.
Plate XL. Lib. xxiv. Achilles, warned by Jove, surrenders the body of
Hector.

These works, similar in title and in subject to the Mirrovr of Maiestie, would well reward a fuller research and a closer examination. Some of them are peculiarly rich in artistic ornamentation, and manifest how high a place was assigned to the adorning of books intended as well to amuse as to instruct, and to the holding forth of worth and dignity to the admiration of mankind. The purpose was at times much over-wrought, and the characters selected were not always suitable for presentation before a Mirrour of untarnished honour; yet no age of the world will betoken true progress if there shall be no worship of heroes, nor regard for those who are mighty in mental and moral power.

Thus we conclude the fac-simile Reprint of the MIRROVR OF MAIESTIE, a production of little merit in itself, but, from its extreme rarity, deserving a place on the shelves of book-collectors. It has, too, some historical interest, from representing one of the tastes and pursuits of the age ' in which it appeared.

GENERAL INDEX.

ABBOT, George, Archbishop of Can

terbury, Arms and Emb. named, 9,
91; Annotations on, 111; portraits,
where, 166.

Achilles surrenders the body of Hector,
178; Emb., Pl. xl.

Admiral, the Lord, see Nottingham, Earl
of.

Eschylus describes heraldic insignia, 98.
Aikin's Mem. of Court of James I., 91.
Alciat's Emblems-Eng. version, 1551,
75; several in Whitney, 80; Yates
MS. of, 88.

Alciato, 172; Emb., Pl. xxx.
Ames's Antiquities of Printing, 75.
Andrews, Lancelot, Bishop of Ely, Arms

and Emb., 44; Annotations on, 140;
named, 91; portraits, where, 166.
Anjou, Geoffrey of, his badge Plantage-
nista, 100.

Anne of Denmark, queen of James I.,
Arms and Emb., 4; Annotations on,
106-109; portraits, where, 161; Em-
blem of, Pl. vii.

Annotations on the Armorial Bearings
and Noble Personages, 97-159.
Armorial distinctions, the earliest, a
wolf and a dog, by Anubis and Macedo,
99..

Arms, assumed, 103; the bearing of,
allowed by law, Hen. V., 104; the
best test of "gentle blood," 104.
Arms of personages in the Mirror, 1—64.
Arms, royal, of Scotland, 165; Denmark,
165; ducal, of Holstein, 165.
Arthur, son of Henry VII., assumed the |
feather badge, 101.
Arundel, Earl of, Thomas Howard, Arms
and Emb., 24; Annotations on, 125;
his fame as a collector of art, 91.

BAC, Aims and Emb., 10; named,

ACON, Sir Francis, the Lord Chan-

91; Annotations on, 113; portrait,
where, 166; Emb., Pl. ix.
Badges, or personal cognizances,-M.
Valerius, 99; Clifford, Warwick,
Richard II., &c., 100-102.

Barclay's Shyp of Folys of the World, 1509,
account of, 73-4.

Barkham, Dr., Display of Heraldry, 1601,
attributed to him, 85.

Barrington's Lectures on Heraldry, 100.
Bellay, Les Oeuvres du, 76, 79; tranṣla-
tions from, by Spenser, 79.

Bible, True and Lyvely Portreatures of,
1553, 75.

Birch's Heads of Illustrious Personages,
1743, 163.

Bidpay, or Pilpay, fables, 78.

Black Prince, and badge of ostrich fea-
thers, doubtful if from Crescy, on his
tomb at Canterbury, 101.

Boleyn, Queen Anne, her device, 68.
Book-collector, foolish, description of, 73.
Boutell's Heraldry, Historical and Popu-
lar, 100.

Brandt's Narren Schy, 1494, 73.
Brooke's Cat. and Succ. of the Kings,
&c. of England, 1622, 164.
Buckingham, Marquess of, George Vil-
liers, Arms and Emb., 20; Annotations
on, 122; portraits of, where, 166.
Burke's Encyclopædia of Heraldry, 100.
Bylling's Five Wounds of Christ, 1400,

Carew, the Lord, George Carew, Arms
and Emb., 58; Annotations on, 150.
Catalogue of personages unto whom the
Mirrovr is appropriated, sign. A2.
Chamberlain, the Lord, see Pembroke.
Chancellor, the Lord, see Bacon.
Charles V., Emperor, Twelve Victories of,
172; Emb., Pl. xxviii.

Charles, Duke of York, Prince of Wales,
Emb. and Arms, 6; Annotations on,
109; portraits, where, 166; Emb.,
Pl. viii.

Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Romaunt of the
Rose, Emb., 65; Well of Love, 66.
Chief Justices, the three lords, Arms and
Emb., 62, 63; Annotations on, 154-
158; see Hobart, Montagu, and Tan-
field.

Doni's Mondi, &c., 1552-3, 78.
Dorset, Earl of, Richard Sackville, Arms
and Emb., 32; notice of, 91.
Dorset, Earl of, Thomas 'Sackville,-
Misery, Sleep, and Old Age, 67; extra-
ordinary man of genius, 91; Annotations
on, 132.

Drawing and Limning, 1612, Peacham's,
87.

Drayton's Legends, 1596, 95; dedica-
tion of his Odes, 1619, to Sir Henry
Goodere, 95-6.

Dugdale's Monasticon Ang., testimony to
Lydgate, 72.

Dunbar's Dance of the Seven Deadly Sins—
Pride, 66.

Dyalogus Creaturarum, 1480, 74.

Christiernus II., king of Denmark, 171; E

Emb., Pl. xxiv.

Clarendon's Hist. of Eng., 1707, 163.
Coat-armour, or coats of arms, 103.
Cognizances of various nations, 98; kings,
100; and nobles, 101-2.
Coke's test of" gentle blood," 104.
Collier's Bibliog. and Crit. Cat. of early
Eng. Lit.-on Wyrley, 80; on Willet,
82; on Peacham, 87.

Colours, Emblems for Faith, Hope,
Charity, 77, 78.

Combe's Theater of fine Devises, 1592,

81; his translation from Perrière, 80.
Complaint of Duke of Buckingham, 160.
Corser, Rev. T., of Stand, his copy of
Mirror of Maiestie, 89; once belonged
to Lodge, sold for £36, 93, p. vi.
Cromwell, Lord, his Impresas, 86.
Crosse, his Covert MS., about 1600, 84.
Crusades, their effect on heraldry, 103.
Crusaders, their cognizances, 103.

DWARD I., II., and III., Edward
the Black Prince, Edward VI.,
their Emblems, 68, 86, 87.
Edward IV., a faulcon in fetterlock, 100;
the sun in splendour, 101.
Elizabeth's badges and mottoes, 68.
Ely, Bishop of, see Andrews.
Emblem-books, English, previous to a. D.
1618, 65-96.

Emblems in early English poets, 65, 66.
Emblems, thirty-two in the Mirror of
Maiestie, 167; Mottoes and Devices, 167
-169.

England's Eliza, 160.

English Sovereigns and their Emblems,
67-8.

English Nobles and Gentry, and their
Emblems, 69.

English Versions of Emblem books-

Brandt's, 1509, 73; Dial. of Creatures,
74; Portreatures of the woll Bible,
1553; Images of the Old Testament,
1549; Storys and Prophesis, 1535; of
Alciat, 1551; Tryumphes of Petrarcke,
1560, 75; Visions, by Spenser, 76;
Worthy Tract of Paulus Iouius, 77;
North's Morall Philosophie of Doni,
1570; Paradin's Heroicall Devises,
1591, 78; Bynneman's Theatre, 1569,
79; Emblemes of Love, 85; Alciat,
about 1600, MS., 88.

Essex, Earl of, Robert Devereux, Arms
and Emb., 30; Annotations on, 131;
Emblems noted, 86; among "Illustrious

and Heroyicall Princes," 91; portrait,
where, 166.

Exercise, the Gentleman's, 1612, 87.

`AERNO, Gabriel, quoted in Whit-
ney, 80.

Feather badge, account of, 101.
Ferdinando I., Emperor, 172; Emb.,
Pl. xxxii.

Fewterer's Myrrour of Christ's Passion,
161.

France, Queen of, 172; Emb., Pl.
xxxiv.

Fraunce's Insignium, &c., 1588, 80.
Fredericus, king of Denmark, 171; Emb.,
Pl. xxiii.

Fuller's Worthies-praise of Willet, 81.

G. (H.), initials of the author of the

Mirror, interpreted to be the
ciphers of Sir Henry Goodere, 93, 94,
795; signature also to the Reprint, 96.
Gaunt, John of, alluded to, 100.
Giovio's Dialogo, 77.

Glasse for Gamesters, 161.

Heraldic blazonry systematized, 102; of
use in the Crusades, 103.
Heraldic symbolism in extensive use, 97,
98; of ancient adoption, 98:
Heraldry uses the same as Emblems, 97;
an organized system, as in badges, 99.
Hertford, Earl of, Edward Seymour,
Arms and Emb.,, 28; Annotations on,
129.

Hic, hæc, hoc taceatis, saying of Edmund
of Langley, 101.

Hillaire's Speculum Heroicum Homeri,
&c, 1613, 173; Emb. Pl. Title,
xxxvii.; other Plates, xxxviii.—xl.
Hobart, Sir Henry, Lord Chief Justice
of Common Pleas, Arms and Emb.,
62; Annotations on, 155.
Holland's Booke of Kings, 1618, 162;
list of portraits named, 162.
Holland's Book of Heroes, 1620, 163.
Honour in its Perfection, 1624, 91.
Howard, Thomas, see Earl of Suffolk.
Huth's, Mr., copy of Mirror of Maiestie,
89; Poetical Miscellanies, 93.

Goodere, Sir Henry, supposed author of IMPRESAS of Englishmen, 36; Sy;

the Mirror, 93, 94, 95, 96.

Granger's Biog. Hist. of Eng., 1799, 163.
Green's Mirrour for the Ladies of Eng-
land, 161; Penelope's Web, 161.
Green's reprint of Whitney, 80.
Guguin's Mirouer historial de France,
1516, 161.

Guillim's Display of Heraldry, 1610, 85.

HASLEWOOD'S Dial. of Creatures

74.

Haye, the Lord James, Arms and Emb.,

60; Annotations on, 152.
Hazlitt's, W. C., Handbook of Early Eng.
Lit.-on Bynneman, 79; on Combe,
81; on Peacham, 85; on Mirror of
Maiestie, 89; on its authorship, 93.
Hector and Andromache, conversation,
173; Emb., Pl. xxxix.

meoni's Sententiose Imprese, 171;
Pittoni's Imprese di diversi Principi,
&c., 172.

Induction, the, by Thomas Sackville, 160.

AMES I., of England, taste for Em-
blems, 70; Arms and Emb., 1, 2, 3;
Annotations on, 105; Arms and
Mottoes, 164, 169, 170; portraits,
where, 162, 166; Emblems of, Pl. ii.
—vi., xiv., xx.

James III., of Scotland, and IV. and V.,
Embs., 70; portraits mentioned, 165.
James I., of Scotland, portrait, 165;
Emb., 171, Pl. xxi.

Jesus the Well of grace, 70, 71.
Junius, Hadrian, Emblems in Whitney,
80.

EIR (Scotland), most extensive

Henry I., II., IV., V., VII., and VIII, Emblem book library there, 75.

of England, their Emblems, 67, 68,
86.

Henry VIII., Emb., 170; Pl. xvii. and
xviii.

Herald and emblematist in close alli-
ance, 78.

Kent, Joan of, Emb. a white, hart, 100.
King, the, see James I., of England.
King, John, see Bishop of London.
Knights, names and arms of, 1485-
1624, 69.

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