Heraldic book

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Zurich coat of arms: lines of the Tübingen Count Palatine
Book of arms of Conrad Grünenberg
St. Gallen Book of Arms
Page from Gerold Edlibach's book of arms

A book of coats of arms is a compilation of an organized collection of coats of arms in book form.

meaning

Heraldry books are one of the most important testimonies and records about the art of heraldry and also provide valuable information about the nobility and the history of the territory. Heraldic books can be found as early as the 13th century and were created according to the nobility or territorial allocation. There are 'European' heraldic books such as Gelre, Bellenville or Bergshammar and regional ones. They were created as fiefdoms, song books, tournament books, guild books or even university registers.

Another group of heraldic books consists only of the description of the coat of arms . At the same time, coats of arms came up. These were rolled directories. The material was parchment or linen on which the coats of arms were painted. For example, the Zurich coat of arms is known .

Modern works are mostly made in black and white and often only have a verbal description of colors . Postcolouring has also been carried out on many issues.

Heraldic books of the Middle Ages

The most important works of heraldic books include:

  • Scheibler's coat of arms book , older part 1450 to 1480 with 476 coats of arms, younger part 16th or 17th century with 148 coats of arms.
  • Book of arms of the Austrian dukes , around 1445 to 1457, 50 sheets with around 170 arms.
  • Book of arms of Conrad Grünenberg , end of the 15th century, 331 colored arms with 2000 arms.
  • Book of arms of Gallus Öhem .
  • Book of arms from the Breisgau , end of the 15th century, 103 sheets with 1504 arms.
  • Book of arms of the Reichsherold Caspar Sturm .
  • Book of Arms of the First .
  • Book of arms of St. Gallen , 1466 to 1470 on 338 pages about 200 coats of arms.
  • Book of arms of Gelre , 14th century, by Claes Heinenzoon, called Gelre .
  • Eichstätter Wappenbuch , 1474 to 1478, 351 pages with around 2000 coats of arms.
  • Palatinate Wappenbuch , around 1460, on 200 sheets there are 1080 coats of arms.
  • Little book of arms of the Pfistern guild in Lucerne , from 1408, 5 sheets with 59 guild arms .
  • Rivoli coat of arms , 1500, 239 pages with 33 descriptions of the coat of arms in the Rivoli fort (created in the 14th century and destroyed in the 17th century).
  • Hans Ingeram's Wappenbuch also Ingeram-Codex , 1459, 280 pages with about 1100 coats of arms.
  • Hans Burggraf's coat of arms book , mid-15th century, 156 sheets with around 600 coats of arms.
  • Large Heidelberg song manuscript (Codex Manesse ) , late 13th to early 14th century, coat of arms and crest decorations on 120 sheets (folia).
  • Brotherhood book of the Order of St. Hubertus , directory of the members of the order founded in 1444, 142 sheets with 390 full coats of arms.
  • Herald's book of the Jülich Order of Hubert , created in 1480 by Hermann von Brüninghausen, King of the Arms of the Duke of Jülich, 130 sheets with over 1000 full coats of arms and more than 100 shields of the Order of Hubert.
  • Leipzig Wappenbuch , begun around 1450, on 96 sheets there are 602 full coats of arms.
  • Miltenberger Wappenbuch , late 15th century, 85 sheets show around 1700 coats of arms.
  • Berlin Wappenbuch , around 1470, about 900 coats of arms on 254 pages.
  • Innsbrucker Wappenbuch , about 1460/1470 on 157 sheets 480 coat of arms of the emperor and the four counts of the quaternions , elector coat of arms, coat of arms of noble families (Tyrolean, Franconian, Bavarian).
  • Anniversar von Elgg , 15th century, 48 sheets with coat of arms of citizens.
  • Anniversar von Uster , 15th century, 58 sheets with 60 full coats of arms.
  • Book of coats of arms of the municipalities of the canton of Zurich, created by Gerold Edlibach in the late 1480s.
  • Turin coat of arms book , 1312, about 119 descriptions of the coat of arms in French of the participants in the imperial coronation of Henry VII (June 29, 1312), Turin State Archives?
  • Armorial d'Auvergne et Forest , collection of coats of arms by Guillaume Revel (Herald to King Charles VII of France)
  • Donaueschingen Coat of Arms , 1433

Coat of arms books of modern times

Book of arms with weddings of the nobility from Flanders

Works from the 19th and 20th centuries

Silesian heraldic books

There are no medieval heraldic books for Silesia . Some families from the Silesian nobility can therefore only be found in the collections of the Herald Gelre and in the Codex Von der Erste . The series of the Silesian heraldic books began towards the end of the 16th century, but was then continued into the 1930s, so that overall there was, or still is, such abundant material as for hardly any other German-speaking region.

Manuscripts

  • Scharffenberg's Wappenbuch , around 1580 with around 2200 coats of arms and its eight previously known partial copies, around 1580 to 1610 with around 5500 coats of arms.
  • Codex Saurma , around 1590 to 1620 with around 2500 coats of arms.
  • Paritius I coat of arms book , from the 17th century with over 1000 coats of arms. The collection initially belonged to Aloys Heinrich von Oberg, came to Carl Ferdinand Hübner from Strehlen in 1780, was acquired by Wroclaw City Councilor Christian Friedrich Paritius on July 17, 1815, and after his death it was finally included in the Wroclaw City Library (shelf number R 2814).
  • Book of arms of Paritius II , from the 17th century with 1025 arms. The collection was acquired on December 12th, 1820 by Wroclaw City Councilor Christian Friedrich Paritius, after his death it became part of the Wroclaw City Library (shelf number R 2815) and after the Second World War it was moved to the now Polish University Library in Wroclaw ( online ).
  • Book of arms of Paritius III , 17th century. The collection belonged to the Wroclaw City Councilor Christian Friedrich Paritius and after his death it became part of the Wroclaw City Library (call numbers R 2936 and 2937). It included 51 and 45 leaves with hand-painted coat of arms of family registers .
  • Warrior coat of arms , from the 17th century with 944 coats of arms on 59 sheets. The collection was acquired by Wroclaw City Councilor Christian Friedrich Paritius around 1815, who added a name index. After his death, the book came into the possession of the Wroclaw bell-foundry family Krieger. Until 1910 it belonged to Friedrich Krieger, Hauptmann a. D., in Beschine in the district of Wohlau. The later whereabouts are unknown.
  • Wappenbuch Köckritz , from the 17th century with 2184 coats of arms, many of which were drawn directly from epitaphs . The collection belonged to the painter Georg Friedrich Raschke from Glogau in the 1830s and was owned by Diepold von Köckritz auf Mondschütz in the Wohlau district in 1885 . The later whereabouts are unknown.
  • Löwenheim's coat of arms , from the 17th century. The collection, with its hand-painted coat of arms from ordinary books belonged Ernst Samuel Sachs Löwenheim (1720-1799) on March joke was out of his estate from the British Museum bought and located since 1973 in the holdings of the British Library (manuscript collection, signature Add MS 19476).
  • Hannoversche coat of arms collection ("the most famous and especially Silesian families") , from the 17th and 18th centuries with 4543 coats of arms. It was in the possession of the Hanoverian archivist and genealogist Heinrich Schädtler (1781-1820), whose extensive library was largely acquired by Prince Adolph Friedrich of Great Britain, 1st Duke of Cambridge , and who transferred it to the later Lower Saxony State Library ( Manuscript collection, call number 652) was given away.

Printing units

  • Alter Siebmacher (published under different titles, here in each case in the section Silesia in Part I (1605), plates 50-76 ( online ); Part II (1609), plates 47-53 ( online ); Part III (1656), plate 92-94 ( online ); Part V (1665), plates 70-75 ( online )) with a total of 605 coats of arms.
  • New Siebmacher (Konrad Blaźek: The coats of arms of the Silesian nobility. J. Siebmacher's great book of arms. Vol. 17. Neustadt an der Aisch 1977 (Reprograph. Reprint of Siebmacher's Wappenbuch: IV. Vol., 11th section (Austrian Silesia) ( online )) Nuremberg 1885. Volume VI, 8th department (dead nobility, Prussian Silesia). Part 1 ( online ). Nuremberg 1887. Part 2 ( online ). Nuremberg 1890. Part 3 ( online ). Nuremberg 1894) with a total of 3410 coats of arms.
  • Leonhard Dorst: Schlesisches Wappenbuch or the arms of the nobility in the Sovereign Duchy of Silesia, the County of Glatz and Upper Lusatia . Görlitz 1847 ( online ), with 607 coats of arms.
  • Albert Frhr. v. Cranes: Coat of arms and manual of the nobility residing in Silesia (including Upper Lusatia) . Görlitz 1901–1904 ( online ), with 488 coats of arms.
  • Alfred Schellenberg: Schlesisches Wappenbuch . Vol. 1 (Library of German coats of arms and house brands in cities and landscapes 2). Görlitz 1938 ( online ), with 1052 coats of arms.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.armorial.dk/german/SanktGallen.pdf Website Steen Clemmensen St. Galler Wappenbuch, PDF
  2. ↑ Gert Oswald: Lexicon of Heraldry. Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich / Leipzig 1984, ISBN 3-411-02149-7 ; 2nd unchanged edition with the subtitle Von Apfelkreuz bis Zwillingsbalken, Battenberg, Regenstauf 2006, ISBN 3-86646-010-4 ; 3rd edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-86646-077-5 , p. 320.
  3. ↑ Website Steen Clemmensen Armorial Donaueschingen, PDF
  4. ^ Hermann Luchs: Six unedited Silesian heraldic books . In: The German Herald. Journal of Heraldry, Sphragistics and Genealogy . No. 16 , 1885, p. 59-62 . ; Hans von Mosch: Scharffenberg Crispin. Silesian Book of Arms . Neustadt an der Aisch 1984.

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