Saturday 27 July 2013

Crested Helm parade in Wappencodex zu München

Back near the beginning of my SCA play, my family gave me a copy of the Fox-Davies Complete Guide to Heraldry. It is a big book with general heraldic information covering quite a few centuries and well beyond the SCA time span. Here is an online version.

http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~bprince/hr/foxdavies/fdguide03.htm

There are a couple of useful images and the best is certainly this. It is listed as being from later in the 15th C but shows other images of version of crests that we see in art from our focus period. So much choice! I would love to see something like this at an SCA event one day. Maybe not 4 shelves. Maybe not 3 whole walls, but a display near the lists for a tourney.
FIG. 12.--Helmschau or Helmet-Show. (From Konrad Grünenberg's Wappencodex zu München.) End of fifteenth century.