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See also [[Furs]]. | See also [[Furs]]. | ||
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=Illustrations:= | =Illustrations:= | ||
==Period sources:== | ==Period sources:== | ||
[[File:WB-Beyerin3v det7.JPG|155x230px|Wapenboek]] | [[File:WB-Beyerin3v det7.JPG|155x230px|Wapenboek]] | ||
Wapenboek Beyerin | Wapenboek Beyerin f3v | ||
==Modern:== | ==Modern:== | ||
==='''Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry (3rd edition):'''=== | ==='''Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry (3rd edition):'''=== | ||
* [http://mistholme.com/dictionary/ermine/ Ermine] | * [[http://mistholme.com/dictionary/ermine/|Ermine]] | ||
* [http://mistholme.com/dictionary/ermine-spot/ Ermine spot] | * [[http://mistholme.com/dictionary/ermine-spot/|Ermine spot]] | ||
[[File:scaheraldry/ermine|118x146px|PicDic]] | |||
===[[Pennsic Traceable Art Project]]:=== | ===[[Pennsic Traceable Art Project]]:=== | ||
* [http://www.aeheralds.net/Links/AE_Traceable_Art/IndivPDFs/Ermine_spot.pdf Ermine spot] | * <span style="line-height: 1.5;">[[http://www.aeheralds.net/Links/AE_Traceable_Art/IndivPDFs/Ermine_spot.pdf|Ermine spot]]</span> | ||
* [http://www.aeheralds.net/Links/AE_Traceable_Art/IndivPDFs/Ferret_passant_reguardant.pdf Ferret (passant reguardant)] | * <span style="line-height: 1.5;">[[http://www.aeheralds.net/Links/AE_Traceable_Art/IndivPDFs/Ferret_passant_reguardant.pdf|Ferret (passant reguardant)]]</span> | ||
* [http://www.aeheralds.net/Links/AE_Traceable_Art/IndivPDFs/Ferret_sejant_erect.pdf Ferret (sejant erect)] | * <span style="line-height: 1.5;">[[http://www.aeheralds.net/Links/AE_Traceable_Art/IndivPDFs/Ferret_sejant_erect.pdf|Ferret (sejant erect)]]</span> | ||
* [http://www.aeheralds.net/Links/AE_Traceable_Art/IndivPDFs/Weasel_passant.pdf Weasel (passant)] | * <span style="line-height: 1.5;">[[http://www.aeheralds.net/Links/AE_Traceable_Art/IndivPDFs/Weasel_passant.pdf|Weasel (passant)]]</span> | ||
* [http://www.aeheralds.net/Links/AE_Traceable_Art/IndivPDFs/Weasel_rampant.pdf Weasel (rampant)] | * <span style="line-height: 1.5;">[[http://www.aeheralds.net/Links/AE_Traceable_Art/IndivPDFs/Weasel_rampant.pdf|Weasel (rampant)]]</span> | ||
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=Glossary of Terms= | =Glossary of Terms= | ||
'''Ermined Tinctures''': | '''Ermined Tinctures''': | ||
These are heraldic furs. There are many possible varieties of these, all based on the design of strewn ''ermine spots | These are heraldic furs. There are many possible varieties of these, all based on the design of strewn ''ermine spots// (abstract designs representing ermine tails). The most common are //ermine// (argent with sable ermine spots), //counter-ermine// (sable with argent ermine spots; also known as //ermines//, a term that is not used in the SCA due to the possibility of typographic errors), //erminois// (Or with sable ermine spots) and //pean// (sable with Or ermine spots). Other combinations do not have unique names and must be explicitly blazoned as <tincture> ermined <tincture>, e.g., //gules ermined argent// (gules strewn with argent ermine spots). Unlike other designs featuring strewn charges, the ermine variants are furs and are classed as separate tinctures in their own right, rather than as charged fields. However the ermine spots have the same constraints as charges for purposes of contrast under RfS VIII.2, in that they must have good contrast with the tincture on which they are placed. //Azure ermined gules// does not have acceptable contrast. For contrast purposes, these furs are classed either as colors or metals according to their underlying tincture (so //ermine// is classed as a metal, and //pean// is classed as a color). Ermine spots can also be used as normal charges; if not in a strewn arrangement they are treated no differently from any other charges. //See also'' [[scaheraldry/Field Treatment|Field Treatment]], [[scaheraldry/Furs|Furs]], [[scaheraldry/Semy|Semy]], [[scaheraldry/Tincture|Tincture]]. | ||
[[http://heraldry.sca.org/coagloss.html]] | |||
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=Period Treatises and Information:= | =Period Treatises and Information:= | ||
*Ermine* is found in the earliest rolls, eg. Dukes of Brittany. | *Ermine* is found in the earliest rolls, eg. Dukes of Brittany. | ||
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*Pean* is described (along with the other three ermine furs) in Legh's _Accedence of Armory_, 1562, f.76. | *Pean* is described (along with the other three ermine furs) in Legh's _Accedence of Armory_, 1562, f.76. | ||
Pean" in SENA: The end of [http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/sena.html#AppendixF | Pean" in SENA: The end of [[http:''heraldry.sca.org/laurel/sena.html#AppendixF|http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/sena.html#AppendixF]] accepts it by reference, and [[http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/sena.html#A2B1|http:''heraldry.sca.org/laurel/sena.html#A2B1]] allows it as a heraldic element asserted in a period treatise "even | ||
if it is unclear from the treatise if the element was used in actual heraldry". | |||
There's a mention in Hierosme de Bara (1581) about Ermines of a Different Color: | There's a mention in Hierosme de Bara (1581) about Ermines of a Different Color: | ||
http://books.google.com/books | [[http://books.google.com/books]] | ||
Car l'Hermine est d'argent & de sable, & le Vair d'argent et d'azur. Toutesfois en blasonnant on ne les specifie pas, mais en un mot on dir: Tel seigneur porte d'Hermines ou de Vair, except{e'} quand ils son d'autre metal & couleur: caralors on doit dire: Tel Siegneur porte d'Hermines, ou de Vair, d'Or, Synople, Gueulles, ou autre. Comme sera veu cy apres, par les figures des Escus suyuans. | Car l'Hermine est d'argent & de sable, & le Vair d'argent et d'azur. Toutesfois en blasonnant on ne les specifie pas, mais en un mot on dir: Tel seigneur porte d'Hermines ou de Vair, except{e'} quand ils son d'autre metal & couleur: caralors on doit dire: Tel Siegneur porte d'Hermines, ou de Vair, d'Or, Synople, Gueulles, ou autre. Comme sera veu cy apres, par les figures des Escus suyuans. | ||
Effectively, "Because ermine is argent and sable, and vair is argent and azure, you don't specify in the blazon when it's those colors, but when you use another metal and color, say what they are. The gentleman bears ermine, or vair, Or, vert, gules, or other. As shown later, in the following illustrated shields." | Effectively, "Because ermine is argent and sable, and vair is argent and azure, you don't specify in the blazon when it's those colors, but when you use another metal and color, say what they are. The gentleman bears ermine, or vair, Or, vert, gules, or other. As shown later, in the following illustrated shields." | ||
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Erminites is apparently mentioned in Legh, The Accadens of Armory, 1562. Each spot has a red tail on one side, the rest black. Pean is also mentioned here. It goes on to say there are others that should just be named by the color and metal they are. And that these are commonly called "Grytty of Herehaughtes". | Erminites is apparently mentioned in Legh, The Accadens of Armory, 1562. Each spot has a red tail on one side, the rest black. Pean is also mentioned here. It goes on to say there are others that should just be named by the color and metal they are. And that these are commonly called "Grytty of Herehaughtes". | ||
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=<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Sources:</span>= | |||
<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Heraldry Archive" - [[http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/]]</span> | |||
<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Archive of St. Gabriel reports - [[http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi]]</span> | |||
<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Laurel Armory Articles - [[http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/armory_articles.html]]</span> | |||
= | <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">New Heraldic Primer (Heraldry for Non-Heralds) - </span>http://heraldry.sca.org/armory/newprimer/h4f4.shtml | ||
New Heraldic Primer (Heraldry for Non-Heralds) - http://heraldry.sca.org/armory/newprimer/h4f4.shtml | |||
Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry (PicDic), 3rd Edition - http://mistholme.com/pictorial-dictionary-of-heraldry< | <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry (PicDic), 3rd Edition - </span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">[[@http://mistholme.com/pictorial-dictionary-of-heraldry]]</span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"> (in progress)</span> | ||
[[Period Armorials]] | [[scaheraldry/Period Armorials|Period Armorials]] | ||
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=<span style="font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.5;">'''Precedents:'''</span>= | |||
<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html]]</span> | |||
<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Morsulus Heralds Website - [[http://www.morsulus.org/]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents)</span> | |||
<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Restatement Wiki - [[http://yehudaheraldry.com/restatement/index.php?title=Main_Page]] (restatements of Precedents)</span> | |||
''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">'''Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.'''</span>'' | |||
= | ==<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">[[#x--Precedents:-Definition:]]<u>'''Definition:'''</u></span>== | ||
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===November 2001 - ermine furs are tinctures not strewn charges:=== | ==='''<span style="line-height: 1.5;">November 2001 - ermine furs are tinctures not strewn charges:</span>'''=== | ||
The College should please keep in mind, while performing stylistic analysis and conflict checking, that ermine spots which are part of an ermine(d) tincture are not strewn charges. They are just part of the tincture, like the lozenges in lozengy or the delfs (squares) in checky are part of a tincture. | The College should please keep in mind, while performing stylistic analysis and conflict checking, that ermine spots which are part of an ermine(d) tincture are not strewn charges. They are just part of the tincture, like the lozenges in lozengy or the delfs (squares) in checky are part of a tincture. | ||
[November 2001 LoAR]] | |||
===October 2000 - weasel vs ferret tail:=== | ===October 2000 - weasel vs ferret tail:=== | ||
Blazoned on the LoI as ferrets, the creatures on the emblazon do not have ferret's tails, which are narrow with a tuft at the end. Instead, these creatures have the thick fuzzy tail of the weasel. As there is an artistic if not heraldic difference, we have changed the blazon to match the emblazon. [Donatien Delaborde, [http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2000/10/00-10lar.html 10/00], A-Ansteorra] | <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Blazoned on the LoI as ferrets, the creatures on the emblazon do not have ferret's tails, which are narrow with a tuft at the end. Instead, these creatures have the thick fuzzy tail of the weasel. As there is an artistic if not heraldic difference, we have changed the blazon to match the emblazon. [</span>'''<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">Donatien Delaborde</span>'''<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">[[http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2000/10/00-10lar.html|10/00]]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">, A-Ansteorra]</span> | ||
http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/elsbeth/armory.html | |||
==Registerability:== | ==<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">[[#x--Precedents:-Registerability:]]<u>'''Registerability:'''</u></span>== | ||
(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)</span> | <span style="background-color: #ffffff;">(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)</span> | ||
===May 2012 - Ermine Variants=== | ==='''May 2012 -'''<span style="line-height: 1.5;"> Ermine Variants</span>=== | ||
Section A3B1 of the Standards for Evaluation, Tinctures, states: | Section A3B1 of the Standards for Evaluation, Tinctures, states: | ||
> Furs are a group of named patterns used as tinctures. For the purposes of tincture, ermined furs are grouped in the same way as their background color. ''Ermine// (a white background with black tails) and //erminois// (a yellow background with black tails) are metals. //Counter-ermine'' (a black background with white tails) and pean (a black background with yellow tails) are colors. | |||
This, along with lack of other ermine variants listed in Appendix F, has been frequently interpreted to mean that "non-standard" ermine variants are no longer allowable under the Standards for Evaluation. However, that was not the intent of Palimpsest. As the rule is written, it is describing what the specifically-named patterns represent; it makes no mention good or ill of other ermine variants, which we blazon as ''X ermined Y''. | This, along with lack of other ermine variants listed in Appendix F, has been frequently interpreted to mean that "non-standard" ermine variants are no longer allowable under the Standards for Evaluation. However, that was not the intent of Palimpsest. As the rule is written, it is describing what the specifically-named patterns represent; it makes no mention good or ill of other ermine variants, which we blazon as ''X ermined Y''. | ||
Research on period examples of ermine variants was mixed. We have found several examples, unfortunately undated. Woodward's ''A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign, Vol. 1//, p. 76, lists quite a few examples as "foreign variations". Most can be found repeated in Rietstap. Woodward cites Roux, which is repeated in Rietstap as Roux alias Roulx du Chesnot, //Azure, semy of ermine spots argent, an eagle Or armed gules//. Woodward and Rietstap cite Van Leefvelt, //Gules, semy of ermine spots Or//, Beuville, //Gules, semy of ermine spots, a fleur-de-lys argent//, and Schleiden, //Azure, semy of ermine spots Or, a lion argent//. Woodward goes on to cite examples of ermine spots used as discrete numbered charges, including Baysse with //Gules, six ermine spots Or''. All of these examples are likely post-period, although they could just as easily date to late period. | |||
Closer to period, we have ''Abbrege' methodique des principes de la science heraldique'', by Jean-Claude Favre, 1647, which on p. 30 gives the specific example of "11. Monsieur tel porte d'hermine, d'azur & d'argent". | |||
And finally, for a definite period source, we have ''Les Blason des armoiries//, by Hierome de Bara, 1581, which on p. 9 says "Car l'Hermine est d'argent & de sable, & le Vair d'argent & d'azur. Toutesfois en blasonant, on ne les specifie pas, mais en vn mot on dit: Tel Seigneur porte d'Hermines, ou de Vair, excepté quand ils sont d'autre metal & et couleur, car alors on doit dire: Tel Seigneur porte d'Hermines, ou de Vair, d'Or, Synople, Gueulles, ou autre." On p. 13 de Bara gives the specific example of //Gules, three ermine spots Or''. Brunissende Dragonette was kind enough to give the following translation: "Ermine is argent and sable, and Vair is argent and azure. However, one doesn't specify when blazoning, but just says: This Lord bears Ermine or Vair; unless they are of another metal and color, as then one must say: This Lord bears Ermine or Vair Or, Vert, Gules or other." | |||
The latter two sources are heraldic treatises, which are not always to be trusted for actual practice, as opposed to theoretical. However, they do give us a guide as to the sorts of things period and just-post-period heralds felt were suitable for use in armory. | The latter two sources are heraldic treatises, which are not always to be trusted for actual practice, as opposed to theoretical. However, they do give us a guide as to the sorts of things period and just-post-period heralds felt were suitable for use in armory. | ||
The SCA is its own heraldic jurisdiction; as section A1A1 of the Standards for Evaluation states, "Our core style is not identical to the style of any single specific place and time, although it is based on the dominant style in medieval Western Europe, the Anglo-Norman style" At worst, ermine variants are post-period, but a logical and unremarkable extension of period heraldic style; at best, they are indeed period. Therefore, we hereby clarify that ermine variants in all tincture combinations are allowable without a step from period practice so long as the rule of contrast is followed. | |||
We propose a wording change to Appendix F of the Standards for Evaluation. It currently reads: | We propose a wording change to Appendix F of the Standards for Evaluation. It currently reads: | ||
> The main heraldic tinctures are listed in A.3.B.1. Other heraldic tinctures may only be registered as part of an Individually Attested Pattern. | |||
We would like commentary on the following proposed change: | We would like commentary on the following proposed change: | ||
> The main heraldic tinctures are listed in A.3.B.1. Furs are treated as a single tincture; a fur may combine any color with any metal (for example, ''gules ermined Or//, //vairy argent and sable''). Other heraldic tinctures may only be registered as part of an Individually Attested Pattern. | |||
http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2012/05/12-05cl.html | [[http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2012/05/12-05cl.html]] | ||
==Conflict:== | ==<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">[[#x--Precedents:-Conflict:]]<u>'''Conflict:'''</u></span>== | ||
==Identifiability:== | ==<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">[[#x--Precedents:-Identifiability:]]<u>'''Identifiability:'''</u></span>== | ||
==Collected Precedents:== | ==<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">'''<u>Collected Precedents:</u>'''</span>== | ||
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (May 2005 - July 2008)</span>'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> - </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">[[http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/elisabeth/armory.html#FUR|FUR]]</span> | |||
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The 2nd Tenure of François la Flamme (October 2004 - May 2005) -</span>''' | |||
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Shauna of Carrick Point (May 2004 - August 2004) -</span>''' | |||
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of François la Flamme (August 2001 - April 2004) -</span>''' | |||
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Elsbeth Anne Roth (June 1999 - July 2001) -</span>''' | |||
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Jaelle of Armida (June 1996 - June 1999) -</span>''' | |||
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The 2nd Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (November 1993 - June 1996) -</span>''' | |||
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme (June 1992 - October 1993) -</span>''' | |||
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The 1st Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (June 1990 - June 1992) -</span>''' | |||
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane (September 1986 - June 1990) -</span>''' | |||
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Baldwin of Erebor (August 1984 - August 1986) -</span>''' | |||
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Wilhelm von Schlüssel (August 1979 - August 1984) -</span>''' | |||
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Karina of the Far West (December 1975 - June 1979) -</span>''' | |||
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Early Days (June 1971 - June 1975) -</span>''' | |||
[[Category:Armory]] | ---- | ||
=<u>'''In the Ordinary'''</u>:= | |||
* Ermine - Beast - see [[http://oanda.sca.org/ordinary/B.html#beastweasel|Beast - Weasel]] | |||
* [[http:''oanda.sca.org/oanda_desc.cgi?p=ERMINE%20SPOT|Ermine spot]] - see also [[http:''oanda.sca.org/ordinary/F.html#fieldtreatmentermined|Field treatment - Ermined]] | |||
* Ermine tail - see [[http://oanda.sca.org/ordinary/E.html#erminespot|Ermine spot]] | |||
* Ermined - see [[http://oanda.sca.org/ordinary/F.html#fieldtreatmentermined|Field treatment - Ermined]] | |||
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