Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory (1688)
Date
1688
Author
Randle
Holme
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The Academy of Armory, or, A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon Containing The several variety of Created Beings, and how born in Coats of Arms, both Foreign and Domestick. WITH The Instruments used in all Trades and Sciences, together with their Terms of Art. ALSO The Etymologies, Definitions, and Historical Observations on the same, Explicated and Explained according to our Modern Language. Very usefel for all Gentlemen, Scholars, Divines, and all such as desire any Knowledge in Arts and Sciences
Publication place
Chester
Publisher
the Author
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
heraldry
Summary
Lexical encyclopedia
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: The Gyron is an Ordinary consisting of two Lines drawn from divers parts of the Escochion, and meeteth in an accute Angle, in the Fesse Point: It is derived, as some think, from the Latin word Germium, which signifieth a Lap. The Gyron is born single; by couples, of six, of eight, of ten, of twelve, and not otherwise. (p. 26)
sample: The Gyron is an Ordinary consisting of two Lines drawn from divers parts of the Escochion, and meeteth in an accute Angle, in the Fesse Point: It is derived, as some think, from the Latin word Germium, which signifieth a Lap. The Gyron is born single; by couples, of six, of eight, of ten, of twelve, and not otherwise. (p. 26)
Alston
III.i.488; XVIII.II.454
Wing
H 2513
Other editions
British Library Harley MS 2151 (prospectus); British Library Harley MSS 2033-35; a Chester Public Library MS copy has the author's corrections; College of Arms MS
1693: Wing H2513a (Alston XVIII.II.455)
1693: Wing H2513a (Alston XVIII.II.455)
Facsimiles
Living and Working in Seventeenth Century England. London: British Library,, 2000. Ed. Nathaniel W. Alcock and Nancy Cox. CD-ROM
Menston 1971
Holme, Randle. Academy of Armory, 1688. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 294. Menston: Scolar Press, 1972.
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Modern editions
Ed. I. H. Jeayes (London: Roxburghe Club, 1905)
