I just finished adding 22 new sources to my lists of armorials, bringing the total up to 654. The full list is at the end of the post, but here are some highlights:
- Visitation of the City and Suburbs of London, 1568, English
- I heard last summer that there were plans to digitize this, so I’ve been eagerly waiting. It was well worth the wait.
- Funeral Entries Vol 2, Irish 1597-1603
- Mostly unpainted, but there are a few painted full funereal achievements throughout, with banners and tabards
- Les Nobles demoiseaus bourgeois de Vallenchenes, after 1550 French
- A fairly short volume, but it has some very nice artwork, and some arms and charges I haven’t seen before.
- Armorial, 16th C German
- This armorial, or collection of armorials, turned up in the Vatican collection last year, and is a treasure trove of interesting armory.
- Armorial dit de Gorrevod, 15th C Dutch
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All Additions
Great Britain/Ireland
- Scottish Armorial, 16th C Scottish (University of Manchester, English MS 4)
- Visitation of the City and Suburbs of London, 1568 English (Oxford, Queen’s College MS 72)
- Funeral Entries Vol 2, Irish 1597-1603 (Genealogical Office Manuscripts Collection, National Library of Ireland, Department of Manuscripts, GO MS 65)
France
- Armorial colorié de Picardie, 16th C French (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 5934)
- Armorial de l’ordre de la Jarretière, 16th C French (Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 11110)
- Les Nobles demoiseaus bourgeois de Vallenchenes, after 1550 French (Municipal Library of Valenciennes, Ms 1201)
Germany
- Armorial, 16th C German (Vatican, Vat.lat.10127)
- Eichstätter Wappenbuch, after 1518 German (University Library Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Cod. st 703)
- Des kaiserlichen Kammergerichts zu Speier Kammerrichter, Beisitzer und Doctores von 1529-1558 und deren Wappen, c. 1558 German (Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.Don.497)
- Bayerisches Stammenbuch mit gemalten Wappen I, 1585 German (BSB Cod.icon. 328(1))
- Bayerisches Stammenbuch mit gemalten Wappen II, 1585 German (BSB Cod.icon. 328(2))
- Wappen von Hofbeamten, 1600 German (BSB Cod.icon. 297)
Low Countries
- Armorial dit de Gorrevod, 15th C Dutch (Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België ms. II 6563)
- Heraldic Collection of the Herald of Arms David Hoyau, 16th C, 16th C Belgian (AEM, Hainaut, Ms no 347)
- https://www.geneanet.org/registres/view/1880443 (registration for Geneanet required to view more than a few pages)
- Recueil d’épithaphes et d’armoiries copiées dans diverses églises de Brabant et pays circonvoisins, 16th C Low Countries (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 5234)
- Recueil d’épitaphes relevées dans différentes églises de Flandres, 16th C Low Countries (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 24020)
Friendship Albums
- 1570-1584: Onophrius Berginger (Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Bibliothek, Hs 461)
- 1579-1618, 1649-1660: Wolfgang Harsdorfer & Wolfgang Carl Harsdorfer (Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Bibliothek, Hs 32900)
- 1580-1615: Georg Werner (Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Bibliothek, Hs 112206 a)
- 1582-1598: Bernhard Kötzler (Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Bibliothek, Hs 140350)
- 1597-1600: Johann Hieronymus Kress (Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs 112206 c)
Treatises
- Traité de blason, 15th C French (Paris, BnF, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal. Ms-5025)
