Book Of Traceable Heraldic Art

Pen

See also: Pen in Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry.

Dextrochere Maintaining a Pen §

An arm garbed in a maunch.

Default posture: dexter arm fesswise embowed. No proper coloration.

Source: Heraldic Templates. Artist: Torric inn Björn.

Hand Couped Maintaining a Quill Pen §

A human hand.

Default alignment: dexter hand apaumy, fingers to chief.

Proper coloration: only if skin tone is blazoned.

Source: Workes of Armorie. Artist: John Bossewell.

Quill Pen (1) §

A bird’s feather, trimmed to allow use as a writing implement.

Default orientation: palewise, point to base.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist unknown. Adapted by Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.

Quill Pen (2) §

A bird’s feather, trimmed to allow use as a writing implement.

Default orientation: palewise, point to base.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist unknown. Adapted by Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.

Quill Pen (3) §

A bird’s feather, trimmed to allow use as a writing implement.

Default orientation: palewise, point to base. No proper coloration.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.

Quill Pen (4) §

A bird’s feather, trimmed to allow use as a writing implement.

Default orientation: palewise, point to base. No proper coloration.

Artist: Jessimond of Emerickeskepe.

Quill Pen (5) §

The plumage of a bird.

Default orientation: quill to base. No proper coloration.

Source: Heraldry, Ancient and Modern. Artist unknown. (Page 307, from the seal of Edward V.)

Quill Pen Entwined by an Escroll §

A small piece of parchment, which always appears with another charge piercing it.

No default orientation. No proper coloration.

Source: Two Tudor Books of Arms. Artist: Robert Cooke. (Page 144.)

Quill Pen Transfixing an Escroll Fesswise (1) §

A small piece of parchment, which always appears with another charge piercing it.

Adapted from an image of a scroll and of a feather, both elsewhere in this collection.

Quill Pen Transfixing an Escroll Fesswise (2) §

A small piece of parchment, which always appears with another charge piercing it.

No default orientation. No proper coloration.

Artist: Jessimond of Emerickeskepe.