John Bossewell, Works of Armory (1572)

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Date
1572
Author
Lexicon title
(1) "Seuen signes, or tokens whiche are figured in Armes round, and are blazed properly with seueral termes" (pp. 10-11); (2) "Proper termes for diuerse tokens borne in Armes" (p. 11)
Book title
Workes of Armorie, deuyded into three bookes, entituled, the Concordes of Armorie, the Armorie of Honor, and of Coates and Creastes
Publisher
Richardi Totelli
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
heraldry
Summary
Logical definitions are found throughout this work and concentrated in sections such as "Proper termes for diuerse tokens borne in Armes" (b3r) and "Of the fourme of Scutcheons" (c2v-c3r).
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Insignia, are signes, & tokens of honor, which commonly of Heraultes be called Armes, or Badges of gentlemen. They bee also called Symbola heroica .i. signes, prices, or markes appertainyng to noblenesse: and whereby euery estate, or man of great aucthoritie is knowen: the noble, from the ignoble, the gentle from the vngentle: and the free man, from the bond. And these Armes or Ensignes (as diuerse aucthours do affirme) do occupy 9. sundry feldes, of the which 7. of them be termed colours, & two Mettalles, as ensue. (a1r)
Alston
XVIII.418
STC
3393
Other editions
1597: STC 3394 (Alston XVIII.419)
Facsimiles
Bossewell, John. Works of Armorie (1572). Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1969. view record
ESTC
S106250