Armorials. Reference sources.
Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:
A roll containing drawings of Scottish crests, probably by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne., Mid 17th century.
Abstracts and facsimiles of Scottish armorials by William Rae Macdonald, Albany Herald (1843-1923).
Armorial coats-of-arms of the Scottish gentry, drawn first in pencil, then inked over, a very few being partially coloured.
At the beginning 30 folios have been left blank and the last drawings, on folio 47, have not been completed. From the watermark and the hand, the manuscript may be dated to the late 16th century; it is possibly an English production as many Scottish family names have been misspelt in a non-Scottish manner.
Armorial of James Workman.
Armorial traditionally associated with Sir Robert Forman, Lord Lyon from 1555 to 1567
Arms of British and foreign noblemen, drawn in trick.
Arms of the English and Scottish nobility. A collection of painted arms with genealogical notes on their holders, made by an Englishman.
The collection includes the creations of 1605, but not those of 1618.
The section on English heraldry (folio 1) contains the arms of the various rulers and their nobles from William I to James I. The Scottish section (folio 104) contains the arms of the queens of Scotland from St Margaret to Anne of Denmark, followed by those of the nobility.
Arms of the Scottish nobility, 1581, bound with leaves of another Scottish armorial dating from ca. 1645 and some heraldic fragments.
'Blason Enluminée', an armorial containing coloured drawings of the coats of arms of sixty-four French bishops and noblemen., [Circa 1620.]
Book on heraldry of Sir William Scott.
Consisting of descriptions of the various elements of heraldry and the arms of families of Scotland.
Carbon copy of a typescript abstract of the Lyon Register by William Rae Macdonald, with manuscript corrections and annotations; volumes VIII-XVI: 1868-1902., 1898-1902.
Coats of arms of the Nine Worthies, British and foreign royal houses, Kings of Scotland and their consorts from John Baliol to James VI, and the Scottish nobility and gentry.
At the beginning, on different paper, is a treatise, 'Scotica Nobilitas. Per Archibaldum Harbartum. Scotum. 1602' dedicated to the Bishop of Norwich.
The volume also contains lists of nobles and notes.
`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar.
`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar, volume 1., 1812-1841.
The volume consists of notes on, and sketches of arms, mostly taken from churchyards in Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland, with a few copied from seals. They are followed by a list of clans and their badges (page 495), a list of chartularies and related material in the Advocates` and other libraries (page 501), and an index (page 521).
`Collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc.` made by Alexander Deuchar, volume 2., 1812-1841.
The contents of the volume are as follows:
(i) `Armorial bearings of Irish Families taken from Keatings History of Ireland, 1816` (page 21).
(ii) Arms of the seven incorporated trades of St Andrews (page 61).
(iii) Index (folio 1).
Collection of arms in trick, drawn on engraved shields, made by Sir James Balfour.
The collection was compiled in the first quarter of the 17th century, with additions to 1642. The arms of the gentry are arranged alphabetically by families and are followed (folio 110 verso) by the arms of Scottish peers. On one of the end flyleaves (folio ii verso) are drawings and the blazon of the arms and crest of Viscount Montgomery of the Great Ardes, with Balfour’s signature.
Collection of English arms in trick, probably compiled as a working notebook by herald painters in London, one of whom appears to have worked with Sir Henry Saint George, Garter King of Arms.
`Collection of illuminate arms` by Etherington Martyn, in 2 volumes, containing watercolour paintings of Scottish, English and a few foreign arms.
In an introductory note (volume 1, folio iv.), Martyn states that many of the arms were unpublished, and taken from seals, drawings, paintings and manuscript blazons; also from a manuscript collection of heraldry `purchased at Mr Cummyngs sale by a Mr Rose`. This probably refers to James Cummyng, herald painter and Lyon Clerk Depute (died 1793). Martyn sometimes gives the source for a particular coat of arms, and occasionally criticises the heraldry.
`Collection of illuminate arms` by Etherington Martyn, volume 1., 1794.
`Collection of illuminate arms` by Etherington Martyn, volume 2., 1794.
Copy, circa 1702, with additions to 1703, of `Collections of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland drawn from ther own charters and other authentick writts ... with ane account of ther armes’, probably made in 1672, attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh.
The original compilation was probably made in 1672 (see Adv.MSS.32.6.1, folio 154 and 34.3.14, folio 42) and is attributed to Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh. However, an 18th-century footnote added to the title page of Adv.MS.34.3.19 states that the collection was originally compiled by Sir Patrick Lyon of Carse, and that his manuscript was copied by Mackenzie and others who made their own additions to it.
Copy, made in the second half of the sixteenth century, of the Hamilton Armorial.
`Crests, Mottos and Supporters of Scots Duckes, Marquises, Earles, Wiscounts and Barrons of Parliament`: descriptions by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne.
The last section has not been completed, and the names of some of the barons are given without their crests and mottoes.