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.

French Blog about ancient heraldry

http://lalanguedublason.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/armoriaux-anciens.html

This blog came up in todays searching. It lists quite a few armorial rolls from several centuries. One of the more interesting pictures they show has a series of carved heraldic displays that span a couple of centuries. Judging by the general artistic style, I can see a few animal head crests over mantling that may fit our time period. There are also some human figures holding weapons and what I hope is a crocodile. It probably isn't but I hope it is.


referenced on http://lalanguedublason.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/armoriaux-anciens.html as
'BARGELLO , 1354-1557 (ITA) - (=-Fumi Cambi Gado-(Francesca)  Stemmi nel Museo Nazionale del Bargello , 1993)'

Crests in 1420s: Part 2

I hope to collect as many images as possible, so it is then clearer which styles were worn in which decade. There are so many images out there; I wish I could show them all. This batch are nice an colourful.
BAV Pal.lat. 291 De rerum naturis
Whole body lion model perched on a frog mouthed helm. This one reminds me of our modern family name crest. Also, I want that red, gold and peacock patterned fabric so badly.
BKS Cod. membr. 8 Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Wide plume of peacock feathers rising from within a crown on a helm. Another man wears a simple single width wreath of leaves over his slotted kettle helm.
BKS Cod. membr. 8 Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Plume of shortened peacock feathers, 3 rows high, rising out of a crown which is worn over red acanthus dagged mantling, all over a bulbous barred helm and kaston brest (boxy breast plate).
The hair style worn by the kneeling lady is still present during until at least 1440. There are examples of the double buns under a net with crossed ribbons on the top of the head in the 15th C French edition of Baccaccio's Decameron. The second, smaller bumps on either side of the top of her head are not shown in Decameron, though. Interestingly, the full sleeves that are gathered into the cuff seem to come back into style in the 1470s and 80s. Maybe that is not a true statement, if looking at adjacent but different countries. One day I will have a good look at sleeves.

Crests in 1430s: part 2


Here are some images from 1430-1439 showing a few different things people wore on their helms.
ONB Cod.485 Leben Jesu
A torse (rolled fabric band encircling the head) and a fine feather coming from the centre front.


ONB Cod.485 Leben Jesu
A torse on a kettle helm and a fine feather coming from the centre front.
ONB Cod.485 Leben Jesu
Same manuscript, same soldier, same red torse.


Morgan M.230 Biblia pauperum
Small diameter torse with cylindrical plume


Morgan M.230 Biblia pauperum
2 feathers from ring on top of the grand bascinet.


Morgan M.230 Biblia pauperum


Morgan M.230 Biblia pauperum
torse worn over grand bascinet, both over hinge roundels and under hinge roundels


Morgan M.230 Biblia pauperum
loose torses, one with hanging tail
Morgan M.453 Book of Hours
Close fitting mantling with a single tail. The lance implies it is to be worn for jousting. 
ULB Darmstadt Hs 1 Historienbibel
This one its interesting. There is a cone circled by stiff feathers rising out of a crown, all worn over a hem. There is also a red wing that could be coming from someone else, or could be some errant dagging flicking up.
ULB Darmstadt Hs 1 Historienbibel
4 ostrich style feathers in 2 or 3 colours rising from the top of the slotted kettle helm. No mounting point visible.
ULB Darmstadt Hs 1 Historienbibel
Everyone wears a crown.
ULB Darmstadt Hs 1 Historienbibel
A red wing rising from within a crown. There is a torse with no visible tail around the crown, all worn on a slotted kettle helm.

Friday, 26 July 2013

Crests in 1430s: Part 1

For this collection of images, I have quite a few that are listed with a likely span of creation, rather than a firm date. I am going to categorise them by the latest listed date, because they must have been in existence from that point on. The searches are throwing out a lot of images and I am only up to page 1 of 4 in a single website. I will probably have to add another post for some of the time periods later. More resources is good news!

UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 432 Spiegel menschlicher gesuntheit


UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 432 Spiegel menschlicher gesuntheit


UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 432 Spiegel menschlicher gesuntheit
I really like this dragon.

Crests in 1420s: Part 1

I love this site. It has a great search option and thousands of images. Here is a collection of images. Once I have collated images from a few places, I will then study them, categorise them and draw some observations about the options available. As you will see, all the sources I have been able to find for the 1420's so far are German. I have included plumes, moulded sculptures and mantling as suitable examples.
UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 365 Ortnit 
UBH Cod.Pal.germ. 336 Weltchronik 
UBH Cod.Pal.germ. 336 Weltchronik
UBH Cod.Pal.germ. 336 Weltchronik
UBH Cod.Pal.germ. 336 Weltchronik
UBH Cod.Pal.germ. 336 Weltchronik
UBH Cod.Pal.germ. 336 Weltchronik
UBH Cod.Pal.germ. 330 Der welsche Gast
UBH Cod.Pal.germ. 323 Willehalm von Orlens
UBH Cod.Pal.germ. 336 Weltchronik

Two more artisans

Hello all. Here are the blogs for the other 2 Royal Artisans. I hope you enjoy their work as much as I have.
 
My Photo
 
 
Ceara at Lochac's November Crown 2012.