John Gibbon, Introduction ad Latinam Blasoniam (1682)
Date
1682
Author
Book title
Introductio Ad Latinam Blasoniam. An Essay to a more Correct Blason In Latine than formerly hath been used. Collected Out of Approved Modern Authors, and describing the Arms of all the Kingdoms of Europe, and of many of the greatest Princes and Potentates thereof: Together with many other Illustrious and Ancient Houses both of England and other Countries. No Work of this Nature extant in our English Tongue, nor (absit gloriari) of its Method and Circumstances in any Foreign Language whatsoever
Publication place
London
Printer
J. M.
Publisher
Author
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- heraldry
- Latin
Summary
A substantial discussion of terms in formal word entries
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: A Cheveronel, called by Leigh a couple close, Tigillum or Cantheriolus; with which last I will blason the Bearing of Sir Nicholas Rainton Lord Mayor of London, Anno 1632. In Scuto pullo Cantherium duobus hinc inde Cantheriolis aureis præcinctum, & inter tria quinquefolia ejusdem metalli interpositum, Sable a Cheberon between two couple closes, and three cing-foils Or. Vide Insignia Collegii Conviliensis Cantabrig. (p. 14)
sample: A Cheveronel, called by Leigh a couple close, Tigillum or Cantheriolus; with which last I will blason the Bearing of Sir Nicholas Rainton Lord Mayor of London, Anno 1632. In Scuto pullo Cantherium duobus hinc inde Cantheriolis aureis præcinctum, & inter tria quinquefolia ejusdem metalli interpositum, Sable a Cheberon between two couple closes, and three cing-foils Or. Vide Insignia Collegii Conviliensis Cantabrig. (p. 14)
Alston
XVIII.II.449
Wing
G650
