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| SCA Heraldry administration: | ||
| Laurel Sovereign of Arms Homepage | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/welcome.html | |
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| To the other Kingdoms | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/kingdoms.html | |
| Structure of the College of Arms | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/CoAstructure.html | |
| History of the College of Arms | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/histcoa.html | |
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| Submittor FAQs: | ||
| Why does it cost so much? | http://www.sca.org.au/FAQ.php#Whydoesitcost | |
| How long does registration take? | http://www.sca.org.au/FAQ.php#Howlong | |
| Why should I register my name & device? | http://www.sca.org.au/FAQ.php#WhyshouldIbother | |
| Why use the heralds with my submission? | http://www.sca.org.au/herald/FAQ.php#WhyshouldIgo | |
| Frequently given answers (that are wrong!) | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/wrong.html | |
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| On-line Ordinary and Armourial (O&A) | ||
| http://oanda.sca.org/ | ||
| http://www.farreaches.org/heraldry/OandA/ | ||
| http://www.heraldsnet.org/heraldry/OandA/ | ||
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| Hirsch von Henford's O&A program:http://www.goldenstag.net/OandA/index.htm | ||
| This program allows one to access the O&A database locally, with very powerful and intuitive search capabilities. | ||
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| Conflict Checking 'How-to's': | ||
| on Modar's page | http://www2.kumc.edu/itc/staff/rknight/Heraldry2.htm#Conflict | |
| Teceangl's "Basic Conflict Checking" | http://www.antirheralds.org/education/basic_conflict_checking.html | |
| Karl Faustus' "How do you conflict-check a device?" | http://flurf.net/herald/checking.xb | |
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| SCA Heraldry Precedents | ||
| Laurel Precedents | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/precedents.html | |
| Resorted by type | http://b.dominohosting.biz/members/creon/home.nsf | |
| Contrast/Complex list precedents | http://www2.kumc.edu/itc/staff/rknight/Complex1.htm | |
| Line of Division conflict table | http://webpages.charter.net/bobjames/lines.htm | |
| Posture conflict table | http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/sca/posture.html | |
| Cross conflict table | http://heralds.artemisia.sca.org/articles/crosstable.html | |
| Flower conflict table | http://tulgey.browser.net/~ech/tools/flowers.html | |
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| Miscellaneous Administrivia | ||
| Free Trumpet Press has closed its doors - instead, go to The SCA Marketplace http://www.sca.org/heraldry/ftpw/ | ||
| Building a Heraldry Library | http://www.antirheralds.org/education/books.html | |
| Locahc P.E's exam | http://www.sca.org.au/herald/docs/PE_Test.pdf | |
| SCA Rules for Submission | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/rfs.html | |
| SCA Administrative Handbook | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/admin.html | |
| Heraldry: | ||
| Heraldic terms & glossaries | ||
| Parkers Heraldic glossary | http://www.heraldica.org/topics/glossary/ | |
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| 'A Heraldic Primer' | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/primer/ | |
| SCA Glossary of terms | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/coagloss.html | |
| SCA Restricted Charges | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/coagloss.html#restricted | |
| SCA Reserved Charges | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/coagloss.html#reserved | |
| 'Proper' colours of charges | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/coagloss.html#proper | |
| Parker's Glossary | http://www002.upp.so-net.ne.jp/saitou/parker/ | |
| James Parker's "A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry" is a late Victorian source on heraldry. It has lots of illustrations of people's arms, but mostly it's a dictionary. If the term is not in Parker's, you can be fairly certain that it's not been used by English-language heralds | ||
| 'Heraldic Dictionary' | http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/heraldry/ A primer to aid in understanding heraldic blazons. With illustrations of field divisions, animals, and inanimate charges | |
| Translating European blazon terms | http://www.heraldica.org/topics/glossary/ | |
| 'Blazoning of Creatures' | http://dragon_azure.tripod.com/UoA/AnimalBlazonry.html | |
| Default postures and positions | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/coagloss.html#default Not just of beasts,but also objects e.g. arrows, swords, sitars??? | |
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| Heraldry graphics | ||
| Heraldry graphics | http://digiserve.com/heraldry/hersoft.htm | |
| "Blazon" design program | http://digiserve.com/heraldry/hersoft.htm | |
| "Maître d'Armes" design program | http://www.chez.com/grandarmorial/maitreArmes.htm | |
| Heraldry clip-art | http://www.pipcom.com/~thule/heraldry/index.html | |
| http://www.heraldicclipart.com/ | ||
| http://www.adamastor.za.org/heraldry/heraldry.htm 700+ heraldic images in a downloadable zip file | ||
| ftp://ftp.farreaches.org/pub/heraldry/graphics/ | ||
| On Modar's heraldry page | http://www2.kumc.edu/itc/staff/rknight/Heraldry2.htm#Clipart | |
| Guntrum's zipped file | http://www.farreaches.org/staendebuch/heraldry/heraldry.htm | |
| Alastair's mega-link list | http://www.lionsgoblet.com/sca.htm> | |
| Clip art from Parker | http://www.farreaches.org/staendebuch/heraldry/parker/parker.htm | |
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| SCA Rolls of Arms | ||
| Groups of the Knowne World | http://heraldry.griffin-dor.org/groups/index.htm | |
| An Tir Roll of Arms | http://badger.cx/heraldry/roll/ | |
| Oertha Armorial Start Page | http://khevron.tripod.com/armorial/ | |
| Calontir Armorial | www.geocities.com/dakea/ | |
| Lochac Roll of Arms | http://www.sca.org.au/herald/LRoA/index.htm | |
| Meridies Armorial | http://pennon.org/armorial/ | |
| Northshield | http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/sca/armorial.html | |
| Outlands Roll of Arms | http://wharrow.outlandsheralds.org/ | |
| West Kingdom Roll of Arms | http://rolls.westkingdom.org/ | |
| Æthelmearc Roll of Arms | http://www.aeheralds.net/rolls/index.php | |
| Heralds and Heraldry in History: | ||
| On Laurel's education page | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/education.html#history | |
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| Period Rolls of Arms and Armorials (and how to find them) – by Leslie A. Schweitzer | http://www.antirheralds.org/education/books.html | |
| from Modar's heraldry page(scroll down) | http://www2.kumc.edu/itc/staff/rknight/Heraldry2.htm#Rolls | |
| European Rolls of Arms of the 13th Century | http://www.briantimms.com/era/early%20rolls%20of%20arms.htm | |
| http://www.heraldique-europeenne.org/ Is in French, but lets you see heraldry by country, albeit redrawn in a modern style | ||
| Japanese heraldry (kamon) | http://www2.harimaya.com/sengoku/buke.html | |
| Arms from Parker's Glossary | http://www.farreaches.org/staendebuch/heraldry/parker/parker.htm | |
| Siebmacher's 'Wappenbuch' | http://www.wappenbuch.de/index.htm | |
| 'The Zurich Wappenrolle' | http://ladyivanor.knownworldweb.com/zroaen0.htm | |
| http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ZurichRoll/ | ||
| 'The Manesse Codex' | http://www.manesse.de/manesse_start.shtml You can see all the illustrations by clicking on the link called: Tafeln der Manesseschen Liederhandschrift | |
| Arms from the siege of Caerlaverock | http://www.farreaches.org/staendebuch/heraldry/siege/siege.htm | |
| Heraldic design: | ||
| on Modar's Heraldry page | http://www2.kumc.edu/itc/staff/rknight/Heraldry2.htm#Book | |
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| and | http://www2.kumc.edu/itc/staff/rknight/heraldry.htm which includes a number of articles on styles of heraldry from European (i.e. non-English !) heraldry | |
| 'The Heraldry cliché checklist' | http://www2.kumc.edu/itc/staff/rknight/Cliche.htm | |
| 'The Philosophical Roots of Heraldic Design' by Viscountess Hilary of Serendip | http://heralds.westkingdom.org/Handbook/x_1-PhilosophicalRootsOfHeraldicDesign.pdf | |
| Heraldic display: | ||
| 'What is Heraldic Display?' | http://andrew.draskoy.net/sca/eilean/display/ | |
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| on the An Tir herald's page | http://www.antirheralds.org/education/education.html | |
| on Modar's Heraldry page | http://www2.kumc.edu/itc/staff/rknight/Heraldry2.htm#Display | |
| Articles on making banners, flags, favours, surcoats,badges | ||
| 'A Cursory Glance at Medieval Flags and Banners' | http://www.kwantlen.bc.ca/~donna/sca/flags/ | |
| 'Norris's Costume & Fashion, Vol. 2 1066-1485' | http://www.kwantlen.bc.ca/~donna/sca/flags/norris.html | |
| Names archives: | ||
| Academy of St Gabriel | http://www.s-gabriel.org/ | |
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| Arval's Medieval Names Archive | http://www.panix.com/~mittle/names/ | |
| Both source a great variety of cultures across the Known World, over many centuries | ||
| on Modar's Heraldry page | http://www2.kumc.edu/itc/staff/rknight/Heraldry2.htm#Names | |
| on the An Tir herald's page | http://www.antirheralds.org/education/education.html | |
| Choosing a name- hints for newcomers | http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/dietmar/hints.html | |
| Aryanhwy's page of names articles | http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names.htm | |
| Scottish& Gaelic names | http://www.medievalscotland.org/scotnames.shtml | |
| Norse names | http://www.northvegr.org/lore/landnamabok/index.php | |
| The National and University Library of Iceland and Cornell University project | http://saga.library.cornell.edu/ | |
| The National and University Library of Iceland and Cornell University have started a cooperative project of large scale digitalization of about 380 000 manuscript pages and 145 000 printed pages. The material will consist of the entire range of Icelandic family sagas. It will also include a very large portion of Germanic/Nordic mythology (the Eddas), the history of Norwegian kings, contemporary sagas and tales from the European age of chivalry | ||
| Byzantine names | http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/PBE/seals/ | |
| 'Lingual Weirdness Table' | http://home.earthlink.net/~mranc/sca/weirdness_table.html | |
| Documenting Order names | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/order/ | |
| http://www.nwlink.com/~badger/sca/ordernames.html | ||
| Tourney / Court heraldry: | ||
| How can I get involved? | http://flurf.net/herald/volunteer.xb | |
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| Ceremonies of Lochac | http://www.adam.com.au/ncastle/bombard/ | |
| on Laurel's education page | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/education.html#voice | |
| on Modar's Heraldry page | http://www2.kumc.edu/itc/staff/rknight/Heraldry2.htm#Vocal | |
| on the An Tir herald's page | http://www.antirheralds.org/education/education.html | |
| 'Taran's Field Heraldry' | http://andrew.draskoy.net/sca/on_heralds | |
| The Company of St Michael | http://home.stny.rr.com/rosensoldat/St_Michael/index.htm | |
| A knight's oath of the period | http://www.geocities.com/sven_noren/Patents/index-eng.html | |
| 'King René's Tournament book' | http://www.princeton.edu/~ezb/rene/renehome.html | |
| Orders of Precedence: | ||
| Lochac Gentry list | http://www.sca.org.au/herald/canon/ | |
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| New Zealand OP | http://www.verso.org/heraldry/rolls/nz-caidan-op-200306-with-group.doc | |
| Caid OP | http://www.sca-caid.org/herald/op.html | |
| To other Kingdoms' OPs | http://www.sca.org/heraldry/lists.html#OOP | |
| Scribes: | ||
| Lochac College of Scribes | http://www.sca.org.au/scribe/ | |
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| Period scroll texts | http://www.geocities.com/sven_noren/Patents/index-eng.html | |
| and | http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/browser/index.html | |
| Absolutely exhaustive source for illumination and other manuscripts on practically any subject | ||
| Intro Heraldry for scribes | http://www.nwywre.com/herald/HeraldryforScribes.html | |
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