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Examples:[edit | edit source]

Period:[edit | edit source]

Animals holding other animals:[edit | edit source]

German German canines with animals, swan and fish and rooster

Animals with weapons:[edit | edit source]

BretonArmorial_p006_armed-lion.JPG BretonArmorial_p006_armed-seated-lion.JPG
L'Armorial le Breton, 15th-16th century. p 6, lion with axe L'Armorial le Breton, 15th-16th century. p 6, seated lion with sword
BookofAttire1508-1551_lionchairsword.JPG Siebmacher_p041-dieberchtolt_lion-sword-buckler.jpg
Book of Attire of the Court of Duke William IV and Albert V of Bavaria, 1508-1551. Seated lion with sword. Siebmacher, 1605, plate 41, lion with sword and buckler

Beaver? Cow in doorway, Elephant[edit | edit source]

Ortenburger Siebmacher, Grunenberg
Ortenburger Wappenbuch - BSB Cod.icon. 308, f160r, beaver vs. mouse Siebmacher, 1605, plate 13, Ox House (cant) Grunenberg Wappenbuch, BSB Csg 9210, 1602-04, f68, elephant with tower standing on a crown

Anteater? Kangaroo? Camel[edit | edit source]

BSB274_Veneta_1550-55_Anteater.jpg File:CarvalhoPortugueseProcessional1580-1620 kangaroo.jpg BSBCsg9210_f72_camel.PNG
Anteater? Aardvark? Carvalho Processional, Portuguese 1580-1620, possible kangaroo or wallaby BSB Csg 9210, Grunenburg Wappenbuch, 1602-04, f72, camel and crown


Rhino, Hippopotamus:[edit | edit source]

Albrect HarleyMS6149 f32r Hippopotamus.png
Albrect Durer, 1515, rhino displayed in Europe Harley MS 6149, various heraldic treatises, folio 32r, hippopotamus

Sloth:[edit | edit source]

The use of sloth as a term for the animal is dated to 1613 in the OED [Oxford University, 1971, pg. 2871].

Another mention found in the writings of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, a Spanish historian and writer who lived from August 1478 – 1557. He wrote "La historia general y natural de las Indias". See image 46 (a very odd image). - http://books.google.com.au/books?id=gm-tuJNH9sMC&q=sloth#v=snippet&q=sloth&f=false


José de Acosta (1539-1600) arrived in America towards 1573, lived in Santo Domingo, Mexico and Peru, and in 1587 returned to Spain. His good relations with Philip II facilitated the publication of De Natura Novi Orbis in 1589. The following year his American studies appeared published as Natural and Moral history of the Indias (Acosta J. d., 1590/1792)

Exoticorum

Exoticorum Libri Decem of Carolus Clusius (Charles l'Escluse), 1605. Image 389. A sloth


  • “Another charming animal, who for his excessive delay in moving is called a sloth, has three claws on each hand: shakes his feet and hands at a pace of extreme laziness: with a manner and facial features of a monkey: giving loud cries, passing through trees and eating ants “(p. 279).
  • http://pendientedemigracion.ucm.es/info/psyhisp/es/3/art13.pdf


Exoticorum Libri Decem of Carolus Clusius (Charles l'Escluse) also gives us an image of a sloth, dating to 1605. You can find it here at http://docnum.u-strasbg.fr/.../collection/coll13/id/28876 -- scroll down to image 389.

Sea-Lion:[edit | edit source]

Sea-lion sea-monster, with the foreparts of a lion and the tail of a fish; it is also sometimes blazoned a “morse”, especially for canting purposes. It’s found in the attributed arms of “King Palaeologus”, c.1282 [ANA2 493]; in true heraldry, in the arms of Imhof, 1605 [Siebmacher 206].

http://mistholme.com/dictionary/sea-lion/

Squirrel![edit | edit source]

DeBretagne16thCFrSaint-BrieucBibliothèque-municipale-013-f21r-rampantsquirrel.png BSB307Sammlungc1600Germp186-squirrel-courant.png
Blasons de Bretagne, 16th C French (Saint-Brieuc, Bibliothèque municipale, 013), f. 21r. Sammlung von Wappen aus verschiedenen, besonders deutschen Ländern, c 1600 German (München, BSB Cod.icon. 307), p 186


Walruses:[edit | edit source]

Olaus Olaus
Olaus Magnus version 1, 1539 Map (coast of Finland) Olaus Magnus version 2, 1555 Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus
Gesner Historia
Gesner 1st edition, 1551? Historia animalium vol. 4 (De Piscium & Aquatilium Animantum Natura, by Conrad Gesner c. 1560

Modern:[edit | edit source]

Pictorial Dictionary, 3rd edition:[edit | edit source]

http://mistholme.com/dictionary/beasts/

Vector Graphics:[edit | edit source]

Annotated Pennsic Traceable Art Project:=[edit | edit source]

Other Info:[edit | edit source]

The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages - http://bestiary.ca/index.html

Bestiary of Anne Walshe, 1400-25 - [[1]]

Bruce Draconarius' summary of registering unusual creatures/items:

  • Used in period heraldry = BEST
  • European and known in period = FINE
  • Non-European and known in period = SFPP
  • Not known in period = Sorry, try again

Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Heraldry Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/
Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi
Laurel Armory Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/armory_articles.html
Period Armorials


Beast/Animal-related pages:[edit | edit source]

Category:Beasts

Precedents:[edit | edit source]

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:[edit | edit source]

March 2009 - hedgehog proper:[edit | edit source]

#179Theodora von Igelheim. Reblazon of device. Vert, a hedgehog rampant argent maintaining a sword Or hilted sable and a foaming beer stein Or headed argent. "Blazoned when registered as Vert, a hedgehog rampant proper grasping in dexter forepaw a sword Or, hilted sable, and in sinister forepaw a foaming beer stein Or, headed argent//, a hedgehog //proper is brown with a white belly. This hedgehog is white with gray face and feet, all of which are considered argent." http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2009/03/09-03lar.html

Registerability:[edit | edit source]

(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)

August 2010 - rhinoceros:[edit | edit source]

"The rhinoceros is a period heraldic charge, found as the crest of William Wade, 1574 (Woodcock & Robinson, Heraldry in Historic Houses of Britain, p.163), and as the crest of the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, 1617 (Bromley & Child, Armorial Bearings of the Guilds of London, pp.1-3). The emblazons on those grants were apparently based on the famous Dürer engraving of the rhinoceros, dated 1515; judging from the grants' blazons of those crests, the rhinoceros was statant by default. As fauna not native to Europe but used in period armory, per RfS VII.4 the use of rhinoceroses is not a step from period practice." [Zafirah of the White Waters, LoAR of August 2010] http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2010/08/10-08lar.html


Conflict:[edit | edit source]

March 2009 - hedgehog with vs without grapes:[edit | edit source]

"Arwen de Redvers. Badge for Esther bat Baruch. Argent, a brown hedgehog rampant proper its quills impaling grapes purpure and vert. This badge is returned for conflict with the badge of Mairghread of Ryvel, (Fieldless) An urchin sejant eject proper maintaining a harp argent stringed Or. There is a single CD for a fielded badge compared to a fieldless design. The grapes, being maintained charges, do not count for difference." but see the August 2015 precedent allowing difference for Maintained Charges http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2009/03/09-03lar.html

Identifiability:[edit | edit source]

Collected Precedents:[edit | edit source]

  • The 2nd Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (November 1993 - June 1996) -
  • The 1st Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (June 1990 - June 1992) -
    • BEAST(June 1990 - June 1991) and
    • BEAST (July 1991 - June 1992)
  • The Tenure of Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane (September 1986 - June 1990) - Beast], Beast - Ferret
  • The Tenure of Baldwin of Erebor (August 1984 - August 1986) - Single HTML Document
  • The Tenure of Wilhelm von Schlüssel (August 1979 - August 1984) - BEAST
  • The Tenure of Karina of the Far West (December 1975 - June 1979) - BEAST
  • The Early Days (June 1971 - June 1975) - AARDVARK,

In the Ordinary:[edit | edit source]


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