The boke of Saint Albans : $b containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armourBerners, Juliana
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The boke of Saint Albans : $b containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armour
Berners, Juliana
Falconry -- Early works to 1800; Heraldry -- Early works to 1800; Hunting -- Early works to 1800
Beestis in tharmys of dyuerse nobuƚƚ ar borne rampyng as here ī thys
figure folowyng apperith. of the wich ī the boke afore I haue made no
mencion. And of hym that is possessor of theys armys ye shaƚƚ say ī
latyn. ¶ Portat de rubio & vnum leonem de argento. Et gallice sic. ¶ Il
port de gowlez vng Leon saliantz dargent. Et anglice sic. ¶ He berith
gowles & a lion rampyng of siluer. And he is calde a Lion ramppyng for
thys cause. for as mych as the right foote ascendyth to the right horne
of the shelde. and the lefte foote descendyth in to the foote of the
shelde as apperith ī the figure. And this same maṅ is obseruyt in aƚƚ
beestis hauyng .iiij. feete. that is to say in lionys leopardis beeris
doggis with other like to them.
¶ Off armys barrit and of labellis borne in armys.
[Illustration: Cote Armour]
First note weƚƚ tharmys of the fadyr as here. and then the differancis
as it shaƚƚ be shewyt. for certan ther be dyu̇se nobuƚƚ men y^e wich
bere labellis in theyr armys as it shaƚƚ be shewyt ī figure after. for
the wich it is to be knawe that sych labellis ar not propurli calde
signes in armys bot dyfferancis of signes. that when it is so: that any
nobuƚƚ man haue mony lefuƚƚ getyn sonnys: then y^e first son the wich is
his faderis ayre: shaƚƚ bere the hooƚƚ armys of his fadyr with sum
lyttiƚƚ differans as here. to whom specialli is geuyn a moon encresyng.
for that first son̄ is in hoope of augmentacion and encressyng of his
patrimony. & thys differans may be sum littiƚƚ molet or a cros croslet
or sych a like differans.
[Illustration: Cote Armour]
[Illustration: Cote Armour]
[Illustration: Cote Armour]
¶ The secunde broder shaƚƚ bere the hooƚƚ armys of his fader with .iij.
labellis to the differans and in to the signe that he is the thride that
beris thos armys. ¶ Also the thride broder if ther be any shall bere
iiij. labellis ī tokyn that he is the faurith: that berith thos armis of
whom the fader is the first. the ayre is the secunde. and the secunde
broder is y^e thride: that beris thoos armys. And so folowys that the
thride broder shaƚƚ beere .iiij. labellis as here it apperith in thys
figure. And so forthe iff ther be moo brether ye shaƚƚ encree yowre
labellys after the forme afore rehersit.
[Illustration: Cote Armour]
¶ And the sunnys of thoos same brether shaƚƚ beere the same labelis. ¶
And ī case that the secunde brother the wich berith iij. labeles haue
.ij sonnys certanly thelder soon of thos .ij. the wich is hayre to his
fadyr shaƚƚ bere the hooƚƚ armys of his fadyr: with also many labelys as
his fadyr did. with a littyƚƚ differans as here it apperith in thys
scochon. ¶ And hys secunde brodyr shaƚƚ bere the hooƚƚ armys of hys
fadyr with the same labellis as his fadyr baare and no moo with a
bordure as here in thys figure next folowyng it shaƚƚ be shewyt. and as
it is rehersit in the chapiture of borduris.
[Illustration: Cote Armour]
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