Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary Volume III

By Sarah Flower

This book is the third in a series of volumes designed to enable those with a working knowledge of heraldry to identify medieval British coats of arms. Listed in this volume are entries from Chief to Fess. The project 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 present work is the third in a four volume Ordinary covering 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, to discover the blazon of arms recorded under particular surnames in the Middle Ages.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0854312935
• ISBN13: 9780854312931
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Society of Antiquaries of London
• Length: 787 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.8" x 9.7"