Two motto scrolls and the relationship between lettering, armorial paint, and catalogue interpretation. The museum identifies the kneeling figure as Simon de Varie and reports partial overpainting of the border arms. The date of the manuscript does not date every visible paint layer.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Partial gift of Gerald F. Borrmann, Ms. 7, fol. 2
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A second opening in the same manuscript, not an independent manuscript copy. Getty describes repeated motto wording on the scrolls and dog’s collar and reports seventeenth-century repainting of the shield. This desk does not reconstruct the earlier arms or independently date the paint layers.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Partial gift of Gerald F. Borrmann, Ms. 7, fol. 2v; image via Google Art Project / Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by DcoetzeeBot. Full source image reduced without cropping or restoration.
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