Main entry:

Society of Antiquaries of London.

Title & Author:

Vetvsta monvmenta : qvae ad rervm britannicarvm memoriam conservandam / Societas antiqvariorvm Londini svmptv svo edenda cvravit.

Publication:

Londini : [publisher not identified], 1747-1906.

Description:

7 volumes ; 54 cm

Notes:
Vol. 2 includes: An account of some ancient monuments in Westminster abbey, by Sir Joseph Ayloffe ... London, 1780.
Vol. 3 includes: An account of the seals of the kings, royal boroughs, and magnates of Scotland, by Thomas Astle. Also, An index to the first three volumes, by Nicholas Carlisle, London, 1810.
Vol. 5 includes: Some account of the abbey church of Tewkesbury ... by Thomas Amyot.--Notes and remarks, by ... William Capon, to accompany his plan of the ancient palace of Westminster.--Some remarks on the pillar or obelisk at Forres, Morayshire, called Sueno's stone, by J.H. Markland.--Observations on several ancient swords of state belonging to the earldom of Chester: in a letter from George Ormerod.--Some account of the ancient and present state of the abbey of St. Mark, York ... by the Rev. Charles Wellbeloved .--Observations on the church of St. Mary le Bow, chiefly relating to its original structure, by George Gwilt.--Memoir, on the antiquities discovered by Edward Rudge ... in excavating the ruins of the abbey church of Evesham, by Edward John Rudge.
Vol. 6 includes: Description of a bronze arm ... from the collection of ... Sir Andrew Fountaine.--Remarks on the Louterell Psalter, an illuminated manuscript of the first part of the fourteenth century, communicated by John Gage Rokewode.--A memoir on the Painted chamber in the palace at Westminster ... by John Gage Rokewode.--Notice of a drawing in the Royal library at Windsor, representing the chair of St. Peter at Rome, by Arthur Ashpitel.--Copies from drawings preserved in the Sacristy of St. Peter's at Rome ... with observations by Alexander Nesbitt.--Remarks on illuminations in some Irish Biblical manuscripts, communicated by the Rev. James Henthorn Todd.
Vol. 7, pt. I. On the tomb of an archbishop recently opened in the cathedral church of Canterbury, by W.H. St. John Hope, 1893. pt. II. The atchievements of Edward, prince of Wales (The "Black Prince") in the cathedral church of Canterbury, by W.H. St. John Hope, 1895. pt. III. The royal gold cup of the kings of France and England now preserved in the British museum, described by C.H. Read, 1904. pt. IV. The obituary roll of John Islip, abbot of Westminster, 1500-1532; with notes on other English obituary rolls, by W.H. St. John Hope, 1906.
Formerly part of an 18th-century library in Williamscote House near Banbury, England, assembled by John Loveday (1711-1789), philologist and antiquary, who lived at Caversham in Oxfordshire. The library was moved to Williamscote House in 1799 by John Loveday the second (1742-1809), Doctor of Laws.

Subject:

Westminster Abbey.
Seals (Numismatics)
Sceaux.
seals (marks)
Antiquities
Great Britain Antiquities.
Great Britain

Added entries:

Carlisle, Nicholas, 1771-1847.
Vetusta monumenta.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 25710
Call No.: ID:88-B11835
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 25709
Call No.: ID:88-B11835
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 25708
Call No.: ID:88-B11835
Copy: v. 3
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 25707
Call No.: ID:88-B11835
Copy: v. 4
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 25706
Call No.: ID:88-B11835
Copy: v. 5
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 25711
Call No.: ID:88-B11835
Copy: v. 6
Status: Available