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Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary Volume IV (Hardcover)
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Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary Volume IV (Hardcover)
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This volume continues the major project of creating a reliable
means of identifying British medieval coats of arms, which began in
1940; it will be of interest not only to heralds, but also to aid
historians, archaeologists, genealogists, and antiquaries. This
book continues the Dictionary of British Medieval Arms, a major
work which is designed to enable those with a working knowledge of
heraldry to identify medieval British coats of arms. The Dictionary
is the result of a bequest to the Society of Antiquaries in 1926
for the production of a new edition of Papworth's Ordinary which
has remained, since its publication in 1874, the principal tool for
the identification of British coats of arms. An Ordinary, in this
context, is a collection of arms arranged alphabetically according
to their designs, as opposed to an armory which is arranged
alphabetically by surname. The indices of the four volumes act as
an armory. The Dictionary covers the period before the beginning of
the heraldic visitations in 1530. Its publication will mean that
the wide range of people interested in medieval arms - historians,
antiquaries, archaeologists, genealogist and those dealing in and
collecting medieval objects - will be able to identify accurately
the arms that occur in a medieval context. Even those without a
knowledge of the subject will be able, by means of the index,
todiscover the blazon of arms recorded under particular surnames in
the Middle Ages.
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