Box 04

This collection includes rubbings (wax engravings) of monuments which date from the 13th to 17th centuries. Scholars of Medieval Studies and Shakespeare and his times will find the rubbings useful. The collection contains eighty medieval monumental brass rubbings of the British Isles.

Medieval monumental brass rubbings dated 1400s - 1521

Knight and wife, 1400s. Black on gold. Scroll. Located at Hampstead, Essex. 29”W x 34”L

Richard Fowler, 1478. Located at Thame Parish Church, Oxfordshire. 12”W x 31”L

William Waldrund and wife, Elisabeth, 1480. Located at Childery, Berkamstead. 30”W x 36.5”L

Sir John Tyringham, 1484. Decorated jupon, sallet style helmet, Heraldry. Silver on black. Located at Tyringham, Buckinghamshire. 18”W x 33”L

Isabelle and Joan Aynsworth, 1488. Two of George Aynworh’s three wives with one son. Ladies wear Horned Headdress. 30”W x 31”

George Aynsworth and wife, Joan with two children, 1488. Lady wears Horned Headdress. 30”W x 35”L

George Aynsworth, his three wives, and their fourteen children, 1488. Ladies wear Horned Headdress. Black and white. Scroll. 40”W x 30.5”L

Lady Catherine, 1500. Heraldic dress. Located at Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk. 17”W x 45”L