CLÉMENT PRINSAULT,
Traité du blason
[Treatise and Armorial]
In French, illuminated manuscript on paper
France, likely northern France (Artois? Picardy?), c. 1475-1500


f. 2v, Shields with heraldic metals, colors and furs
 
This neatly written and carefully painted workaday copy of a fifteenth-century manual is by the well-known herald Clement Prinsault. It includes his published Treatise, along with an Armorial of northern French origin, which is unrecorded, providing an adapted version of the published work. Containing some 271 colored shields, the codex offers an excellent heraldic picture of northern French nobility, otherwise unaccounted for. Perhaps originally owned by a herald, it presents opportunities for further study with its legible explanations of metals, colors, charges, etc.
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