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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

A pope, in the canting arms of Pabist, 1578, Schlesisches Wappenbuch (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, VD16 ZV 26921) #heraldry

Blue heraldic shield with a man from the waist up issuing from the bottom of the shield, wearing an ornate robe and papal crown

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

For #NationalTakeTheStairsDay, here are the Venetian arms of Gradenigi (München, BSB Cod.icon. 272) #Heraldry

A red heraldic shield with a white staircase being climbed by a black boar

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Apparently today is #DistaffDay. That's an easy one! From "Silbereisen: Chronicon Helvetiae, Part I", 1576 Swiss (Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsWettF 16: 1) #Heraldry

Red heraldic shield with a yellow or brown distaff and pedestal with white fiber.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

For #ThreeKingsDay, here are some 16th C German attributed arms of the magi, from BnF ms. Allemand 304 #Heraldry

Three heraldic shields: the first blue with nine yellow stars, the second blue with a yellow star between three white crescents, and the third white with three dark-skinned human heads

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Today is #NationalBirdDay. Have a hoopoe! (München, BSB Hss Cod.icon. 313) #Heraldry

A white heraldic shield with a hoopoe in its natural colours standing on a green hillock

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Whirligigs, from "Armorial Didier Richier, dit Clermont", 1577 French (Bibliothèques-Médiathèques de Metz, MS 1152) #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi #Heraldry

A blue heraldic shield with a white horizontal stripe between three white whirligigs (windmill toys)

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Today is #WorldDayOfPeace. Here's a dove from 1613, from the Stammbuch of Johann Michael Weckherlin. #Heraldry

Blue heraldic shield with a white dove with red legs and beak holding a golden olive branch

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 31: Spirit The arms of the Cavallieri di Sancto Spirito, 1605 Italian (Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, alfa. t. 4. 12) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Blue heraldic shield with a red Maltese cross with yellow rays between the arms. On the cross is a white dive facing forward as though striking towards the viewer.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 30: Viva The arms of da Vivaio, 1550-1555 Italian (München, BSB Cod.icon. 277) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

A white heraldic shield with a blue chevron. On the chevron are an arrangement of 6 crescents and 9 small circles.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 29: Telegraph Messenger, from the arms of Lauffen, 1591 German (Universität Tübingen Universitätsbibliothek, Mh 6,1) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

White heraldic shield with green ground at the bottom, with a man dressed in blue with a green hat and cape and black boots, holding a spear in one hand and a letter in his outstretched other hand.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 28: Master This master of disguise, from a 17th C 'impresa' (Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod.Triv. 2168) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

A wolf in sheep's clothing, and above it a hand issuing from a cloud holding a ribbon inscribed with 'ETA CHONSO'

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 27: Struck Furisons interlaced in triangle, each striking flames, 1563 (Austrian State Archives, AT-OeStA/AVA Adel RAA 219.22) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Heraldic shield divided into quarters. The top left and bottom right are red, each with a gold sheaf of wheat. The top right and bottom left are white, each with three red fire irons connected to form a triangle, their striking surfaces each touching a piece of flint surrounded by flames.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 26: Shine Hungarian arms from 1576, the Latin blazon of which translates to "in the lower red field of which the sun shines brightly, while in the upper three stars, placed in order, are seen to twinkle". #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

A heraldic shield, the top half blue with three yellow six-pointed stars, the bottom half red with a yellow sun with a face.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 25: Hero Arms showing Prometheus, 1613, from the Stammbuch of Johann Michael Weckherlin (Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.hist.oct.218) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

A heraldic shield with blue sky and green land, with a chained Prometheus having his liver eaten by an eagle.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 24: Way The canting arms of Wegmacher, 16th C (München, BSB, cgm 1952). The Wegmacher (lit. 'way-maker') was responsible for building and maintaining gravel or dirt roads. #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Black heraldic shield with a man dressed in a short white tunic holding a large hoe or axe over his shoulder.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 23: Paradise The arms of Michael Ploz, 1604 (Austrian State Archives, AT-OeStA_AVA_Adel_RAA_321.45) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Heraldic shield showing a green field with mountains in the distance and an apple tree on a hillock in the foreground. The sky is partly blue and partly pink and orange, like a sunrise or sunset. A yellow sun with a face shines its rays on the tree.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 22: River Squirrel cruising down a river on a chunk of wood, 1623 (Austrian State Archives, AT-OeStA/AVA Adel RAA 449.22) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Green heraldic shield with a light blue river running diagonally across it. In the river is a reddish brown squirrel holding a nut and sitting on a chipped plank of yellow wood.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 21: One Unicorn's horn, 1613, from the Stammbuch of Hieronymus Köler (Niederösterreich Landesarchiv, HS StA 0084) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Heraldic shield divided into 5 diagonal stripes - yellow, red, blue, red, and yellow. On the blue stripe is a white unicorn's horn. The crest is the top half of a white unicorn.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The arms of Schrotlin, "Or, a pair of stag beetle's attires proper". 1601, from the Album Amicorum of Johannes Fabri (Weimar, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Stb 130) #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi #Heraldry

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 20: Purple Zimmernsche Chronik, 1566 German (Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.Don580,a-b) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Mainly white heraldic shield with intricate silver patterns, the top third is purple

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 19: Swing Door hinge. 1578, Polish (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, VD16 ZV 26921) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Red heraldic shield with an ornate white door hinge

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 18: Soldier Swans with guns, 1607 (Austrian State Archives, OeStA_AVA_Adel_RAA_56.31) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Blue heraldic shield with a white swan atop a gun in grey and brown. The crest is a crown with a swan between two guns.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 17: Silence Ermine spots in the arms of Brittany, 16th C Spanish (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España MSS 1196) #DoctorWho #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

A white heraldic shield with black ermine spots that look more like tally-marks

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 16: Africa The attributed arms of the "King of Africa", 16th C German (Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 17). I have no idea if it's a coincidence or not that the field uses the same tinctures as the modern Pan-African Flag. #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Heraldic shield divided in a Y shape, the top black, the left green, and the right red, with a yellow sun with a face with three blue semi-circles attached.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 15: Time Two renditions of the arms of Ulrich Schniep, a scientific instrument maker in the late 16th C, with a sundial crest. One has the crest drawn as a polyhedral sundial, and the other as a diptych sundial. #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Heraldic shield with a half-globe and staffs and stars. The crest is an octahedron marked as a sundial, including inset compass, on a pedestal below a sun, all between two wings.

Heraldic shield with a half-globe and staffs and stars. The crest is an diptych sundial, including inset compass, below a sun, all between two wings.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 14: Radar Had to reach a bit for this one, but both use reflections to locate solid objects. Beginning of the 15th C (Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België ms. IV 1249) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

A white heraldic shield with three black bats

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 13: Brother A monk, in the canting arms of Münchhaussen, 16th C German (Badische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Karlsruhe 2821) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

A yellow heraldic shield showing a tonsured man in black and white robes holding a red staff and a red book, wearing red shoes

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 12: Numb Not technically heraldry, but a rebus that happens to be displayed on a shield (BNF, Français 5658). It's a fascinating book, but I don't speak nearly enough French to make sense of the rebuses. #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

A white shield with a point-eared woman in a red and blue particolor dress and hat and a white apron, a syringe, and a flower.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 11: Rain Thundercloud in the canting arms of Donnersperg, 1594 German, from the Stammbuch of Bernhard Stiber (Weimar, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Stb 460) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Black heraldic shield with a white cloud issuing from the top, three wavy yellow lightning bolts issuing from the cloud, and a yellow trimount issuing from the bottom.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 10: Wish A well, from 16th C Germany (Weimar, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Fol 223) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

A white heraldic shield with a yellow well with a red roof and pulley and three green clovers issuing from the roof.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 9: Love Armorial de Ribeaupierre, 16th C German (Colmar, Bibliothèque Municipale, 1107 (064)) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

A yellow heraldic shield with a red heart transfixed by a light grey arrow.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 8: Matter Bags of madder in the arms of the Worshipful Company of Dyers, 1596 (LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection, STC 26018) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

A line drawing of a full heraldic achievement. The shield has a chevron between three bags of madder (which look like cushions). The supporters are spotted panthers with crowns, and with flames coming from their mouths and ears.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 7: Black A black grouse from the late 15th C 'Abbot Ulrich Rösch's book of heraldry' (St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1084) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

A white heraldic shield with a black bird with blue beak and legs, white markings on the wing and face, and a red crest

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 6: Heaven A seraph, in the Italian canting arms of Serafini from 1605 (Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, alfa. t. 4. 12) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Heraldic shield with alternating red and white diagonal stripes; the top third is white with a human head with multiple rainbow coloured wings

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 5: Fix The blazon term 'fitchy' derives from Anglo-Norman 'ficher', "to fix in place, to push into, to stab". So here are a couple crosses formy fitchy from University of Victoria, Ms.Brown.Eng.2 #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Two heraldic shields: the first, labelled 'Collumbreis', is black with a yellow cross with three flared arms and the lowest arm pointed; the second, labelled 'Cadwalader. last Kinge of the Britt.', is the same but on a blue background

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 4: Piano The arms of Johann Lechner, organ maker from Munich, 1623. (Austrian State Archives, OeStA_AVA_Adel_HAA_AR_512.24) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Heraldic shield divided diagonally; the top half black with a yellow lion, the bottom half red with a set of silver organ pipes

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 3: Hotel The arms of Johann Althaus, Austrian State Archives (AT-OeStA/AVA Adel RAA 6.15) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Blue heraldic shield with a yellow thatch-roofed house atop a green hill

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 2: Roller Flaming wheels from the Album amicorum of Bernardus Paludanus (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 133 M 63) #heraldecember2024 #heraldry

Blue heraldic shield with a red chevron between three flaming wheels

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

(I'm #Heraldecember a little differently, sharing actual medieval/renaissance emblazons inspired by the prompts rather than my own) 2024 - Day 1: Rhapsody Arms from 1565, including an assortment of instruments plus a song-book. (Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.hist.oct.260) #Heraldry

A line-drawing of a heraldic shield, with a bowed instrument of some sort, a haut-boy, a flute, and a bow. The crest is a set of bagpipes charged with a music-book

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A pair of fox tails, 1595, from the Stammbuch of Kurt von Knöringen (Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 608). #Heraldry

A heraldic shield divided horizontally, white on the top, black on the bottom, with two fox tails in their proper colours forming an X

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It's #MaizeDay! Here's maize in the arms of Hernando de la Parra, 1560 (Archivos Españoles, PATRONATO,103B,R.12). #Heraldry

A line drawing of a heraldic shield featuring forts atop mountains, a river, a lion, a crossbow, a sheaf of arrows, and a border of alternating maize and grape vines.

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy #Thanksgiving to my US neighbours! Here are turkeys from BNE MSS/11833, c. 1650, blazoned as "pavones Reales". #Heraldry

Black and white heraldic shield with two turkeys above four wavy horizontal lines

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Today is #TurtleAdoptionDay. Here's a turtle who is unlikely to ever be adopted, and is pretty pissed about it, in the arms of Eslinger from BSB-Hss Cod.icon. 307, p 594 (along with an emblazon of the same arms from Siebmacher). #Heraldry

A line drawing of a heraldic shield with a very badly drawn turtle who looks like he his giving both middle fingers.

A yellow heraldic shield with a black turtle as seen from above

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Today doesn't seem to have much going on - none of the "(Inter)national Day of"s lend themselves to #Heraldry. So here, have a bear's foot issuant from, and apparently part of, a base, from "Silbereisen: Chronicon Helvetiae, Part I", 1576 Swiss (Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsWettF 16: 1)

An uncoloured heraldic shield with a bear's paw issuing from the bottom of the shield

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Today is the feast day of Catherine of Alexandria. Here are some Catherine wheels in the arms of Brentingam, from one of my favourite sources: University of Victoria Library, Ms.Brown.Eng.2 #Heraldry

Black heraldic shield with a white fess embattled counter-embattled between three yellow Catherine wheels

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

For #EvolutionDay, here is heraldic evidence of the archaeopteryx from the mid-15th C 'Armorial de Gilles de Bouvier' (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 4985). Archaeopteryges apparently love moonshine. #Heraldry

Red heraldic shield with two yellow birds with blue faces and feet holding a brown barrel between them, a white crescent moon at the bottom of the shield

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Today is also #Wolfenoot. Here are two different emblazons that both include short-legged wolves tricked as being 'wolf'-coloured rather than being tricked with a standard heraldic tincture. #Heraldry

A yellow heraldic shield with three grey wolves, the top one with the word 'wolf' written on it

A white heraldic shield with two grey wolves, each with the word 'wolf' written on it

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Today is both #LaborAppreciationDay and #ThankfulForMyDogDay. These motto "Digna Canis Pabulo" on these arms (1591), from the Stammbuch of Ulrich Reutter, literally translates to "The dog deserves food", but as a proverb means something closer to "The laborer is worthy of his pay". #Heraldry

A heraldic shield divided black in the top half and yellow in the bottom, with a seated dog divided yellow in the top half and black in the bottom holding a white ribbon with the words "Digna Canis Pabulo" on it

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

For #HousingDay, here's a simple forest house in the canting arms of Walthausen (Austrian State Archives) #heraldry

Line drawing of a gold heraldic shield with a red three-towered castle atop a green trimount, with blue lions on either side, and three stars in chief

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Yagowe @yagowe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Give your fish some wine, in honour of #WorldFisheriesDay (München, BSB, cgm 1952) #heraldry

White heraldic shield showing a man dressed in red pouring wine from a pitcher into the mouth of a fish or whale

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