Scottish Heraldry

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Per Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 2511 some features typical of period Scots heraldry include:

  • simple, balanced designs
  • single charges or sets of three charges
  • a group of identical charges around a fess, a bend, or a chevron
  • strongly contrasting foreground and background colors; specifically, combinations of blue, red, or black with white/silver and yellow/gold
  • canting, i.e. using a main charge whose name sounds similar to your surname.

Some features not used (or very rarely used) in Scots heraldry include:

  • divided fields, especially of two colors or two metals
  • man-made objects (except for canting)
  • the colors green and purple

Ancient Scottish Patents and Matriculations, by David Hunter of Montlaw (alias David of Moffatt). - Text of some sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Scottish patents of arms.

An Annotated Bibliography of Scottish Heraldic Materials, by Zenobia Naphtali and David of Moffat. - Also available on the SCA website.

Period Scottish Armorials

  • The Balliol Roll is a 14th C roll containing 36 Scottish coats of arms.
  • Scots Roll is a Scottish roll from the 15th C with 114 coats of arms.
  • The Lindsay of the Mount roll is a Scottish roll assembled in 1542 by David Lindsay of the Mount, who shortly later became Lyon King of Arms. A few coats were added later in the 16th C. It contains over 400 coats of arms from all over Scotland (including the Highlands).
  • The Dunvegan Armorial is a Scottish roll from the end of the 16th C. It contains a color photofacsimile of over 50 noble coats of arms depicted in a full achievement (with crest and supporters.) and over 200 "Gentleman's arms" (with the escutcheons only.)
  • The Dublin Armorial of Scottish Nobility dates from the end of the 16th C. It contains a color photofacsimile of pages depicting the marital coats of the various Kings of Scotland (Scotland to dexter, the Queen's original arms to sinister). It also includes over 50 noble coats of arms depicted in a full achievement (with crest and supporters.) Of particular note are the achievements where the arms are shown, not on an escutcheon, but on a tabard, with the arms shown in full on the front, and half of the arms visible on each sleeve.

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Modern:

Pictorial Dictionary, 3rd edition:

Per Mistholme, may use PicDic art for submission purposes without prior permission.

Vector Graphics:

Annotated Pennsic Traceable Art Project

General Sources:



Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Definition:

(includes defaults, proper tinctures, blazoning)

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Registerability:

(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)

Conflict:

Identifiability:

Collected Precedents:

The Ordinary:

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