Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary Volume III

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 coatsof 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 fourvolume 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.

Author: T. Woodcock
Publisher: Society of Antiquaries of London
Published: 11/19/2009
Pages: 787
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.25lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.80w x 1.90d
ISBN: 9780854312931

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 29