Heraldry
Notes and primary sources on heraldry around the world: not only European armory, but any formal system of hereditary or corporate signs.
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Primary sources
Transcriptions and translations of source texts, each credited to the edition
it was taken from. Where a work survives in more than one language, its
editions are listed together so they can be read against one another.
The Accedence of Armorie
Gerard Legh · 1562
| Language |
Edition |
|
English
language of composition
|
Tottel (London, 1562) |
|
English
language of composition
|
Ballard (London, 1597) |
Tractatus de Insigniis et Armis
Bartolus de Saxoferrato · ca. 1355
| Language |
Edition |
|
Latin
language of composition
|
Hauptmann (Bonn, 1883) |
|
German
|
Hauptmann (Bonn, 1883) |
|
English
|
Cavallar et al., A Grammar of Signs (1994) |
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