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Mark Anthony PornyHeraldry
An unpublished heraldic manuscript attributed to Antoine Pyron du Martre, known in England as Mark Anthony Porny, probably prepared for aristocratic instruction.
- Edition
- Original manuscript · Watercoloured arms · Morocco
- Format
- 128 manuscript pages · Watermarked 1799
- Availability
- Price on request
Bibliographical details
Later full morocco, gilt spine, slightly faded. 128 manuscript pages with numerous finely watercoloured coats of arms. Small marginal tear to p. 65; uniform toning.
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This manuscript is not a transcription of a printed handbook but an original pedagogical work. Text and image form a coherent programme through which a pupil could learn both the theory of blazon and the visual construction of arms.
Its attribution to Mark Anthony Porny places it within the cultivated Franco-British world of late eighteenth-century Eton, where heraldry remained a practical language of lineage and privilege.
The quality of the watercolours, the dated paper and the volume’s British provenance make it a direct record of how heraldic knowledge was taught and transmitted.
Further photographs and a complete condition report are available on request.