Sources

Subtitle: Depuis le Roy Philippes de Valois, Jusques à Tres Puissant,

Tres Magnanime & Tres Victorieux Roy de France, Henry Deuxième

By Jean Le Féron. Artist unknown. Published in Paris, 1555.

Archived at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9671229p/

Catalogue des Très Illustres Grands-Maistres de France

Source for 2 illustrations.

Subtitle: Depuis le Roy Clotaire, Deuxième du Nom, Jusques à Tres

Puissant, Tres Magnanime & Tres Victorieux Roy de France, Henry

Deuxième

By Jean Le Féron. Artist unknown. Published in Paris, 1555.

Archived at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9671230b/

Wappenbuch of the Holy Roman Empire

Source for 4 illustrations.

Painted by Stephan Brechtel around 1560

Archived at http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00020447/

Flandria Roll

Source for 3 illustrations.

Subtitle: Chorographie Flanderns in Portraits der Landesfürsten, den

Wappen des Adels und des Landes und in seiner Geographie.

Indexed as BSB Cod.icon. 265.

Painted in the Netherlands in 1562.

Archived at http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00001350/

images/

The Accedence of Armorie

Source for 13 illustrations.

By Gerard Legh (sometimes Leigh), published in England in 1562

with a second edition in 1597. Illustrator unknown.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/accedenceofarmor00legh/

Rylands MS 2

Source for 10 illustrations.

Painted by Lucas Cranach the Younger in Germany in 1565.

Archived at https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/media/book/

showBook/Manchester~91~1~433848~225786

Opera Dell'arte Del Cucinare

Source for 12 illustrations.

Printed by Bartolomeo Scappi in Italy in 1570. Illustrator unknown.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/operavenetiascap00scap

Arma Regni Poloniae

Source for 17 illustrations.

Indexed as München, BSB Herald. 9.

Printed in Germany in 1572. Illustrator unknown.

Archived at https://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/resolve/display/

bsb10455021.html

Workes of Armorie

Source for 40 illustrations.

Subtitle: Deuyded into three bookes, entituled, the Concordes of

armorie, the Armorie of honor, and of Coates and creastes.

Printed by John Bossewell in England in 1572. Illustrator unknown.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/workesofarmoried00boss

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(Continued from previous page…) Schlesisches Wappenbuch

Published in Silesia in 1578.

Archived at https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?

PPN=PPN803782608

Le Blason Des Armoiries

Source for 86 illustrations.

Subtitle: Auquel est monstrée la manière de laquelle les Anciens et

Modernes ont usé en icelles.

Written and illustrated by Jérôme de Bara in Lyon, France, 1579.

Archived at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8608301g/

Von Den Fürsten Grauen, Herren

Source for 2 illustrations.

Subtitle: auch andern alten Adelichen Bayrischen Geschlechten.

Published in Germany, 1586. Artist unknown.

Archived at https://haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de/viewer/resolver?

urn=urn:nbn:de:gbv:32-1-10030621403

Nobleza del Andaluzia

Source for 13 illustrations.

Indexed as Biblioteca Nacional de España MSS R10805, R26842.

Published by Gonzalo Argote de Molina in Sevilla, 1588. Artist

unknown.

Archived at http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000134360

Walters Ms. W.847

Source for 4 illustrations.

Painted in England in 1589.

Archived at http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/

WaltersManuscripts/html/W847/

The Armes of All the Cheife Corporatons

Source for 11 illustrations.

Subtitle: of England wt. the companees of London described by

letters for ther seuerall collores

Published by Benjamin Wright in London in 1596.

Archived at https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/detail/

FOLGERCM1~6~6~793017~150630:The-armes-of-all-the-cheife-

corpora

Catalogue des Noms, Surnoms, Faits et Vies

Source for 4 illustrations.

Subtitle: Des Connestables, Chanceliers, Grands Maistres, Admiraux

et Mareschaux de France; Ensemble des Prévosts de Paris, Depuis

Leur Premier Establissement Jusques à Très Haut, Tres Puissant, &

Tres Chrestien Roy de France et de Navarre Henry III

By Jean Le Féron. Artist unknown. Published in Paris, 1598.

Archived at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15120809/

English Arms A

Source for 29 illustrations.

Created in Ireland circa 1590–1620.

Archived at http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000531082

Siebmacher's Wappenbuch of 1605

Source for 46 illustrations.

Written and illustrated by Johann Siebmacher in Germany in 1605.

Archived at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/

Siebmachers_Wappenbuch

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(Continued from previous page…) A Display of Heraldry

Subtitle: Manifesting a more easie access to the knowledge thereof than

hath been hitherto published by any, through the benefit of method.

Printed by John Guillim in England in 1611. Illustrator unknown.

Archived at http://archive.org/details/gri_33125009310737

O-umajirushi

Source for 10 illustrations.

Painted circa 1640 in Japan. Illustrations attributed to Kyūan.

Archived at http://o-umajirushi.xavid.us/.

Manchester University English MS 15

Source for 3 illustrations.

Illustrated in Scotland. Dated to 16th-17th C.

Archived at https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/view/search?

q=reference_number=%22English%20MS%2015%22

The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents

Source for 6 illustrations.

Published in 1658 in England. Illustrations by Edward Topsell.

Archived at http://archive.org/details/historyoffourfoo00tops

Opus Insignium Armorumque

Source for 12 illustrations.

Published in 1687 in Slovenia. Illustrations by Janez Valvasor and

Bartholomaeus Ramschisslu.

Archived at http://bit.ly/opus-insignium-armorumqueand

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Opus_insignium_

armorumque

Devises et Emblemes Anciennes & Modernes

Source for 3 illustrations.

Subtitle: Tirees de Plus Celebres Auteurs

Written by Daniel de la Feuille. Published in 1699 in Augsburg,

Bavaria. Illustrator unknown.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/devisesetembleme00lafeu

Heraldry of Fish

Source for 15 illustrations.

Subtitle: Notices of the Principal Families Bearing Fish in Their Arms.

Printed by Thomas Moule in England in 1842. Illustrator unknown.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/heraldryoffishno00mouluoft/

Siebmacher's Grosses und Allgemeines Wappenbuch

Source for 3 illustrations.

Also known as Neuer Siebmacher, “the new Siebmacher.”

Published in Germany by Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt, Maximilian

Gritzner, and Gustav A Seyler, 1854-1967. Illustrators unknown.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/heraldryoffishno00mouluoft/

English Heraldry

Source for 8 illustrations.

Published by Charles Boutell in England in 1867, republished 1899.

Illustrations by R. B. Utting.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/englishheraldryb00bout

The New Practical Gardener and Modern Horticulturist

Source for 1 illustration.

Printed by Wm. MacKensie in England in 1874. Illustrator unknown.

Archived at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=msu.31293010587842

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(Continued from previous page…) A Cyclopedia of Costume

Subtitle: or, Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of

Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent; a General

Chronological History of the Costumes of the Principal Countries of

Europe, from the Commencement of the Christian Era to the

Accession of George the Third.

Published 1876–79 in England by James Robinson Planché.

Illustrators unknown.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/p1cyclopediaofco01planuoft/

and https://archive.org/details/p2cyclopediaofc01planuoft/

and https://archive.org/details/b24871850_0002/page/n9/

Siegel des Mittelalters aus den Archiven der

Stadt Lübeck

Published in 1879 in Germany by Verein für lübeckische Geschichte

und Altertumskunde. Illustrator unknown.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/siegeldesmittel00altegoog

The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary

Source for 1 illustration.

Subtitle: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant.

Published by Henry Lee in England in 1887. Illustrator unknown.

Archived at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43343

A Treatise on Heraldry British and Foreign

Source for 8 illustrations.

Subtitle: With English and French Glossaries. Two volumes.

Published by John Woodward in England in 1892. Illustrator

unknown.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/treatiseonherald01wood/

and https://archive.org/details/atreatiseonhera00burngoog/

Heraldry, Ancient and Modern

Source for 6 illustrations.

Subtitle: Including Boutell's Heraldry.

Published by S.T. Aveling in 1890. Illustrator unknown.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/heraldryancientm00boutrich

A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry

Source for 38 illustrations.

By James Parker, with contributions by Henry Gough, 1894.

Based on the book published by his father, J. H. Parker, in 1847.

Some illustrations by his daughter, Irene Parker (later Irene Hore).

Archived at https://archive.org/details/aglossarytermsu08parkgoog

and https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=luMMAAAAYAAJ

and https://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/index.htm

Some Feudal Coats of Arms

Source for 3 illustrations.

Subtitle: And others, illustrated with 2,000 zinco etchings from the

Bayear tapestry, Greek vases, seals, tiles, effigies, brasses and

heraldic rolls.

By Joseph Foster, 1902. Illustrator unknown.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/somefeudalcoatso00fostrich

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(Continued from previous page…) Baltischer Wappen-Kalender

Published by E Bruhns, in Riga, 1902. Illustrated by M. Kortmann.

Archived at https://www.digar.ee/viewer/et/nlib-digar:42026/28954

Two Tudor Books of Arms

Source for 52 illustrations.

Subtitle: Harleian Manuscripts Numbers 2169 & 6163.

By Joseph Foster, 1904. Illustrator unknown.

Based on a mid-16th C. copy of a late-15th C. manuscript.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/twotudorbooksofa00fostuoft

Some Feudal Lords and Their Seals

Source for 17 illustrations.

By Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis (Baron Howard de Walden), 1904.

Images copied from examples in a document from 1301.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/somefeudallordst00howauoft/

Banners, Standards, and Badges

Source for 81 illustrations.

Subtitle: From a Tudor manuscript in the College of Arms.

By Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis (Baron Howard de Walden), 1904.

Illustrations drawn by Thomas Willement in 1829-31, based on a

manuscript created in England circa 1531.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/bannersstandards00howauoft

The Art of Heraldry

Source for 22 illustrations.

Subtitle: An Encyclopædia of Armory.

By Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, 1904.

Illustrations by H. G. Strohl, G. W. Eve, Graham Johnston, C. W.

Sherborn, R. E., J. Forbes Nixon, G. Scruby, J. Vinycomb,

M.R.I.A., and “Miss Helard” (a pseudonym for his wife, Mary Ellen

Blanche Crookes).

Archived at https://archive.org/details/artofheraldryenc00foxd

The Principles of Design

Source for 15 illustrations.

Subtitle: A text-book for teachers, students, and craftsmen.

Written and illustrated by George Woolliscroft–Rhead, 1905.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/principlesofdesi00rheauoft

Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art

Source for 35 illustrations.

Subtitle: With special reference to their use in British heraldry.

Written and illustrated by John Vinycomb, 1906.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/fictitioussymbol00vinyiala

Heraldic Badges

Source for 5 illustrations.

By Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, 1907.

Illustrator unknown.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/heraldicbadges00foxd

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A Complete Guide to Heraldry

Source for 162 illustrations.

By Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, 1909.

Most illustrations by Graham Johnston. Includes illustrations by

“Miss Helard” (a pseudonym for his wife, Mary Ellen Blanche

Crookes) and Mr. G. W. Eve.

Archived at https://archive.org/details/completeguidetoh00foxdrich

Wappen und Siegel des Kreises Alfeld

Source for 6 illustrations.

Written by Wilhelm Barner, 1953. Illustrations by Gustav Völker.

Braunschweiger Wappenbuch

Source for 1 illustration.

Written by Arnold Rabbow, 1977, revised 1984, 2018.

Illustrations by Gustav Völker.

Wappenbuch des Landkreises Hannover

Source for 8 illustrations.

Published in Germany in 1985. Illustrations by Gustav Völker.

Wikimedia Commons

Source for 37 illustrations.

Copyright for each item is retained by its original creator.

Although most Wikimedia material is released under a Creative

Commons Attribution license, this collection includes only items

which have been placed in the public domain.

Artists include: AceDouble, AnonMoos, Care, F.rodrigo, Fry1989,

Madden, Mouagip, Orem, and Poznaniak.

Available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/

Category:SVG_coat_of_arms_elements

Copyright for each item is retained by its original creator.

Although most Heraldik-Wiki material is released under a Creative

Commons Attribution license, this collection includes only items

which have been placed in the public domain.

Artists include: Dorado, Leit, and Madboy74.

Available at https://heraldik-wiki.de/

OpenClipArt

Source for 33 illustrations.

All items released into the public domain.

Available at http://openclipart.org/

Heraldic Templates

Source for 204 illustrations.

By Torric inn Björn. © 1992 Floyd L. Bullock.

Permission was granted by the artist to adapt and include these

images as part of this project.

Archived at http://digitalherald.org/heraldic-templates/

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(Continued from previous page…) Pennsic Traceable Art

Created by the volunteers of the art tent at Pennsic Heralds’ Point.

Compiled and edited by Ailis Linne. © 2004–2007 Erin E Childs.

Permission was granted by the editor to include, update, redraw and

distribute the PTA images as part of this project.

Nearly all of the charges from the third edition are included, along

with some additional items from the project’s unreleased archives.

A concordance showing each PTA item and the corresponding image

in this collection is available at http://heraldicart.org/pta/.

Artists include Roana d’Evreux, Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon, Bressal

MacCulloch, Palotzi Marti, Gisela vom Kreuzbach, Elsbeth Anne

Roth, Kolosvari Arpadne Julia, Thomas Ouswood, Margaret

Makafee, and Tristran Deans, among others.

In some cases, the record of artists' credits is unclear, and we have

included our best guess as to the creator, annotated as "attributed."

Images scanned by Roana d’Evreux and Thomas Ouswood.

Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds

Source for 631 illustrations.

By Gunnvôr silfrahárr. © 2014 Christie L. Ward.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0

Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license. No attribution is required for

heraldic or artistic use by members of the SCA.

Available at http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/Stars/

Heraldry_SVG_Images/index.htm

SVG Heraldry Components

Source for 28 illustrations.

By Nicholas de Estleche. © 2016–2018 Nicholas Adams.

Permission was granted to include and distribute these images as part

of this project. Available for free use without attribution by

participants in the SCA.

Available at https://svg-heraldry-components.fandom.com/

Sledgehamster

Source for 26 illustrations.

By Grimwulf Harland.

Permission was granted to include and distribute these images as part

of this project. Available for free use without attribution by

Pennsic Traceable Art Archives

Source for 20 illustrations.

participants in the SCA.

Following the publication of the third edition of the Pennsic

Available at https://sledgehamster.com/downloads/

Traceable Art, a number of additional illiustrations were collected in

anticipation of the fourth edition, but were never published.

A decade later, they are being distributed here for the first time,

under the same terms as for the third edition.

Artist include Gunnvôr silfrahárr, Ian of Tadcaster, and Violante de

Rojas.

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(Continued from previous page…) WappenWiki

Compiled by Joakim Spuller. Copyright for each item is retained by

its original creators.

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-

ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license. Permission for free use

without attribution was granted to participants in the amateur

reenactment community.

Available at http://wappenwiki.org/

Pennsic “Bored Artists” Collection

Source for 77 illustrations.

Created by the volunteers of the art tent at Pennsic Heralds’ Point.

Copyright for each item is retained by its original creator.

Permission granted to share for free heraldic use within the SCA.

Artists include Æðelðryð MacGillivray, Angharat Goch verch

Gwenhover, `Aziza al-Shiraziyya, Celiedh Eiriksdottir, Dorothy

Mackey, Imayne de Merlowe, Jaqueline de Molieres, Kjalvor

Sæbjarnardottir, Raziya Bint Rusa, Rozalia Krawczykowa, Stephanie

Fahey, and Þórý Veðardóttir.

Pennsic Heralds’ Point Artists

Source for 111 illustrations.

Created by the volunteers of the art tent at Pennsic Heralds’ Point.

Copyright for each item is retained by its original creator.

Taken from submissions of Pennsic XLIV (2015), XLVI (2017),

XLVII (2018), XLVIII (2019), XLIX (2022), and L (2023).

Permission granted to share for free heraldic use within the SCA.

Book of Traceable Heraldic Art

Source for 1735 illustrations.

Digital illustration and layout of this collection was performed by

Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.

Content, design, and illustrations not specifically credited to others

are © 2016–2023 Matthew Simon Ryan Cavalletto.

Illustrations with a named artist but no identified source work were

contributed to this project by their creators, who retain the copyright.

This book and those illustrations, unless specified, are distributed

under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0

International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

No attribution is required for non-commercial heraldic or artistic use

by participants in the SCA or other forms of amateur historic

recreation.

Use outside of amateur historical recreation, including commercial

use, is allowed with appropriate credit, so long as you make the

resulting work available under the same terms. Contact the editor for

questions about other uses not explicitly covered here.

Some individual item pages note that their contents are covered by a

Non-Commercial CC license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). For commercial

use of those items, contact the artists directly for permission.