Book of Monuments | Friends of the National Libraries

This book is the result of Dugdales ambitious programme to record as much as possible of medieval church architecture and decoration as he could before the iconoclasts of the Puritan movement could do their worst. The Book of Monuments containing 190 foliosrecords for 37 of the places visited, notes and facsimiles of inscriptions in Dugdales hand, and paintings of glass, heraldry and monuments by William Sedgwick. Illustrated at p.8 of AR

Item author: Sir William Dugdale

Item date: 1640 - 41

(this is an approximate date)

Grant Value: 5,000

Item cost: 80,000

Item date acquired: 1994

Item institution: British Library

Town/City: London