Blazons. Instructional materials.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Formal descriptions of badges, banners, and flags, or in heraldry, coats of arms, which enables a person to construct or reconstruct the appropriate image.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Blazon of the Ensign Armorial of Alexander Keith of Ravelston., 8 January 1737.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17316
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
More detailed lists are available on request.
Dates:
8 January 1737.
`Blazoning of the arms belonging to the gentlemen within the Kingdom of Scotland`., 1672-1822.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.35.6.15
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
There are additions up to 1822 by the copyists David Deuchar, and his son Alexander, the seal-engravers.
The volumes are interleaved with pages engraved with blank shields, some of which have been completed in watercolours or in trick to illustrate the text.
Dates:
1672-1822.
Extract of Blazoning of Coat of Arms of Sir William Murray 1st Baronet, of Ochtertyre., 6 March 1673.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17045
Scope and Contents
This document is fully dated Edinburgh, 6 March 1673.
Dates:
6 March 1673.
Miscellaneous papers of the Hays of Yester., 1509-mid 20th century, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14778-14827
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The papers catalogued here are especially rich in political material, 17th century-19th century, in estate and local affairs correspondence and papers, 16th century-20th century, in financial and legal material, 15th century-20th century, and in personal, household and estate accounts, 17th century-19th century. There is material concerning India in the correspondence and papers of the 8th, 9th and 10th Marquesses of Tweeddale, and concerning the Peninsular War in the correspondence and...
Dates:
1509-mid 20th century, undated.
Notebook containing 'A Blazoning of the Arms belonging to the Gentlemen…of Scotland', with various later additional notes, some on other topics. , ?1689.
File
Identifier: Acc.9281/4
Photocopies of documents formerly at Yester House., 1673-1739.
File
Identifier: MS.14810
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Poem in the hand of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale: ‘On the death of Lady Sophia Hay who dyed at Yester the 29th of April 1678 and of her age the 13th yeare’ (folio 1);(ii) Extract of the blazoning of the coat of arms borne by Sir James Hay, 1st Baronet of Linplum, 10 February 1673 (folio 4);(iii) Newsheet, Edinburgh 1715, concerning fighting between the Jacobites and the forces commanded by the Duke of Argyll (folio 5);...
Dates:
1673-1739.