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HERALDRY 1780 CDROM "Introduction to Heraldry, Nearly One Thousand Illustrations, Including The Arms of About Five Hundred Different Families"
by Hugh Clark
published in London, Covent Garden, 1873
published in London, Covent Garden, 1873
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This is the best CDROM of authenic heraldry color images you are ever likely to find. CDROM of an original copy of a rare and hard to find 128 year old book. Includes pdf of all ~360 pages with fabulous graphics, very detailed coats of arms of a wide variety of family names, almost all in color. Great gift for anyone interested in heraldry or history. Heraldry design is discussed in detail and there are many fascinating medieval images. Also includes exquisite color illustrations and design comparison of the royal crowns of kings and queens of European Royal Families. Excellent resource for a variety of fields; for anyone interested in genealogy, knighthood, chivalry, royalty, dungeons and dragons, medieval history, mythology, symbolism, etc. This is the 17th edition of an authoritative heraldry resource originally published in 1780.
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Family Coats of Arms shown include: Greville Packer Atkins Beringer Barker Baines Turner Simeon Rich Kinnaird Turisden Prince Hilborne Newton Porter Drumond Burnaby Hildsley Haydon Morley Arbuthnot Rawlyns Rawlins Chute Stapleton Paulet Ewart Rawline Norton Gwyn Aldam Kagg Wooton Weele Hawkeridge Newdigate Grafton St. Clare Dillon Monox Quarterly Humphrey Lowther Biest Townson Bourden Cennino Chapman Shorter Peacock Cole Washbourne Shipstowe Madden Row Tremaine Borough Buocafoco Villages Gamin Wells Sault Davy Hoast Bateman Cocks Douglas Clarke Stourgeon Ambesace
Heraldry is the science and art that deals with the use, display, and regulation of hereditary symbols employed to distinguish individuals, institutions, and corporations. These symbols, which probably originated as identification devices on shields, are called armorial bearings. Strictly defined, heraldry denotes that which pertains to the office and duty of a herald; that part of his work dealing with armorial bearings is properly termed armory. But in general usage, the term heraldry has come to mean the same as armory. Heraldry originated when most men were illiterate but could easily recognize a bold, striking, and simple design. The use of heraldry in medieval warfare enabled combatants to distinguish one mail-clad knight from another and thus to know friend from foe. Thus, simplicity was the principal characteristic of medieval heraldry. In the tournament there was a more elaborate form of heraldic design. When heraldry was no longer used in war and heraldic devices had become a part of civilian life, an intricate type of design evolved with an esoteric significance utterly at variance with its original purpose. In modern times, heraldry has often been looked on as mysterious and a matter for experts only. Indeed, over the centuries its language has become intricate and pedantic. Such intricacy appears ridiculous when it is remembered that in the earlier periods swift recognition of a coat of arms or badge could mean the difference between safety and death, and in many medieval instances battles were lost through a mistake over the sameness of two devices of opposing sides.Like all other human creations, heraldic art has reflected the changes of fashion. As heraldry advanced from its utilitarian usages, its artistic quality changed. In the 18th century, for example, heraldry described new arms in an intricate style. The use of symbols has been universal among civilized communities, but these symbols have not assumed the character always associated with heraldry. Seals, too, which have a prominent place in heraldic practice, are of an antiquity approaching that of the most ancient civilizations. They were in use in the states that from Sumer onward flourished in Mesopotamia. Their use, for example, in the Babylonian Empire was the same as in medieval western Europe: to authenticate the documents (possibly of baked brick, later papyrus, later still parchment or vellum) on which they appeared or to which they were appended. All persons, literate and illiterate alike, were able to recognize the representation or symbol of a ruler or other potentate. In 12th-century Europe, heraldry first appeared on seals in the representations of persons. There is a clear line of descent from the seals of Assyria and Babylonia to the modern company seal, which is often heraldic.Although originating in the small half continent of western Europe, heraldry has become universal, often, but not only, by way of western European colonization. Heraldry has spread to a considerable degree in both the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. In the former British India, the hereditary princes adopted the use of heraldry. In the numerous independent states formed in Africa from the former British colonies, official armorial bearings are generally used, and the same is true of the new states that were formerly French colonies. In Russia in the 18th century, the use of armorial bearings was adopted from the West, and state emblems are not unknown in Communist eastern Europe. In the 13th century, the Celtic princes of Wales and Ireland and the chiefs of the Scottish Highland clans took up the use of heraldic symbols from the example of the feudal lords and knights of other parts of Europe. Other kinds of emblematic identification have some similarities with heraldry. An example is the totem system, found among the indigenous peoples of America and Australia, in which an animal, plant, or other object serves as an emblem of family or clan and is often regarded as a reminder of its ancestry. Totemism varies greatly in different countries, as do the theories that have been advanced to explain it. The totem poles used by the Indians of the northwest coast of North America contain a heraldic element in their employment of a hereditary symbol for a family or tribe. They therefore come under the heading of approaches to heraldic designs and may be termed semi-heraldic in character. An early development was the extension of heraldic design from its use by persons or families to its employment by institutions and associations of various kinds, a consequence of the concept that an assembly or body of people can be personified as an individual, much as a limited company or corporation is viewed as a legal "person." Medieval times provided numerous examples of arms borne by municipalities, churches, and colleges. The arms assumed by an individual or granted to him are regarded as being peculiarly his possession; therefore caution must be used in speaking of family arms. This question can be best dealt with in connection with the royal arms of the sovereign of the United Kingdom. These arms are borne in their entirety only by the reigning king or queen. No other member of the royal family is permitted to bear the arms without introducing a "difference" mark that will show without doubt that the bearer is not the reigning sovereign. By analogy, the same condition holds for all so-called family arms, which belong to the head of the family; all other members should strictly bear them differenced--that is, with some mark of cadency (a sign indicating the position of the bearer with respect to the head of the family). In Scottish heraldry this rule is very rigidly enforced, but in England and elsewhere it has been allowed to fall into decay, except in the case of the royal family. Throughout the world, banks, insurance companies, and many other great commercial concerns use arms, as do an ever-increasing number of professional, educational, and trade associations. Perhaps the event most illuminative of the modern scope of heraldry was the grant, in 1961, by the government of the Republic of Ireland of armorial bearings to the president of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy. Because arms are hereditary and their owners are regarded heraldically as of noble status, the grant amounted to a bestowal of nobility by a state on the head of another state, an occurrence unique in heraldic history.
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Excellent gift and design resource for anyone interested in graphic art, trademarks, advertising or computer art or design. Good for your elibrary. CD-R is both Mac and Windows compatible. Includes convenient and complete thumbnail index of all pages, and ability to magnify and examine fine details. Unique gift!! FREE SHIPPING TO USA and CANADA. We ship internationally (worldwide) at actual shipping cost. 100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
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Heraldry is the science and art that deals with the use, display, and regulation of hereditary symbols employed to distinguish individuals, institutions, and corporations. These symbols, which probably originated as identification devices on shields, are called armorial bearings. Strictly defined, heraldry denotes that which pertains to the office and duty of a herald; that part of his work dealing with armorial bearings is properly termed armory. But in general usage, the term heraldry has come to mean the same as armory. Heraldry originated when most men were illiterate but could easily recognize a bold, striking, and simple design. The use of heraldry in medieval warfare enabled combatants to distinguish one mail-clad knight from another and thus to know friend from foe. Thus, simplicity was the principal characteristic of medieval heraldry. In the tournament there was a more elaborate form of heraldic design. When heraldry was no longer used in war and heraldic devices had become a part of civilian life, an intricate type of design evolved with an esoteric significance utterly at variance with its original purpose. In modern times, heraldry has often been looked on as mysterious and a matter for experts only. Indeed, over the centuries its language has become intricate and pedantic. Such intricacy appears ridiculous when it is remembered that in the earlier periods swift recognition of a coat of arms or badge could mean the difference between safety and death, and in many medieval instances battles were lost through a mistake over the sameness of two devices of opposing sides.Like all other human creations, heraldic art has reflected the changes of fashion. As heraldry advanced from its utilitarian usages, its artistic quality changed. In the 18th century, for example, heraldry described new arms in an intricate style. The use of symbols has been universal among civilized communities, but these symbols have not assumed the character always associated with heraldry. Seals, too, which have a prominent place in heraldic practice, are of an antiquity approaching that of the most ancient civilizations. They were in use in the states that from Sumer onward flourished in Mesopotamia. Their use, for example, in the Babylonian Empire was the same as in medieval western Europe: to authenticate the documents (possibly of baked brick, later papyrus, later still parchment or vellum) on which they appeared or to which they were appended. All persons, literate and illiterate alike, were able to recognize the representation or symbol of a ruler or other potentate. In 12th-century Europe, heraldry first appeared on seals in the representations of persons. There is a clear line of descent from the seals of Assyria and Babylonia to the modern company seal, which is often heraldic.Although originating in the small half continent of western Europe, heraldry has become universal, often, but not only, by way of western European colonization. Heraldry has spread to a considerable degree in both the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. In the former British India, the hereditary princes adopted the use of heraldry. In the numerous independent states formed in Africa from the former British colonies, official armorial bearings are generally used, and the same is true of the new states that were formerly French colonies. In Russia in the 18th century, the use of armorial bearings was adopted from the West, and state emblems are not unknown in Communist eastern Europe. In the 13th century, the Celtic princes of Wales and Ireland and the chiefs of the Scottish Highland clans took up the use of heraldic symbols from the example of the feudal lords and knights of other parts of Europe. Other kinds of emblematic identification have some similarities with heraldry. An example is the totem system, found among the indigenous peoples of America and Australia, in which an animal, plant, or other object serves as an emblem of family or clan and is often regarded as a reminder of its ancestry. Totemism varies greatly in different countries, as do the theories that have been advanced to explain it. The totem poles used by the Indians of the northwest coast of North America contain a heraldic element in their employment of a hereditary symbol for a family or tribe. They therefore come under the heading of approaches to heraldic designs and may be termed semi-heraldic in character. An early development was the extension of heraldic design from its use by persons or families to its employment by institutions and associations of various kinds, a consequence of the concept that an assembly or body of people can be personified as an individual, much as a limited company or corporation is viewed as a legal "person." Medieval times provided numerous examples of arms borne by municipalities, churches, and colleges. The arms assumed by an individual or granted to him are regarded as being peculiarly his possession; therefore caution must be used in speaking of family arms. This question can be best dealt with in connection with the royal arms of the sovereign of the United Kingdom. These arms are borne in their entirety only by the reigning king or queen. No other member of the royal family is permitted to bear the arms without introducing a "difference" mark that will show without doubt that the bearer is not the reigning sovereign. By analogy, the same condition holds for all so-called family arms, which belong to the head of the family; all other members should strictly bear them differenced--that is, with some mark of cadency (a sign indicating the position of the bearer with respect to the head of the family). In Scottish heraldry this rule is very rigidly enforced, but in England and elsewhere it has been allowed to fall into decay, except in the case of the royal family. Throughout the world, banks, insurance companies, and many other great commercial concerns use arms, as do an ever-increasing number of professional, educational, and trade associations. Perhaps the event most illuminative of the modern scope of heraldry was the grant, in 1961, by the government of the Republic of Ireland of armorial bearings to the president of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy. Because arms are hereditary and their owners are regarded heraldically as of noble status, the grant amounted to a bestowal of nobility by a state on the head of another state, an occurrence unique in heraldic history.
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