A Heraldic Miscellany: Fifteenth-Century Treatises on Blazon and the Office of Arms in English and Scots

The fifteenth-century texts edited here for the first time describe the changing relationship between heraldic design and heralds themselves. They describe the rules of heraldry and the meaning of colours and charges, the diplomatic and martial roles performed by heralds, and the imagined, illustrious history of the office of arms.