[ANSTHRLD] Definitions of ....
tmcd at panix.com
tmcd at panix.com
Fri Oct 28 12:44:33 PDT 2005
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Deborah Sweet <dssweet at okstate.edu> wrote:
> What are the following heraldic items?
_A Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry / As Used in the Society For
Creative Anachronism_ but Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme and Akagawa
Yoshio was designed to list every charge (other than a standard
ordinary) used in SCA armory. Since the second edition dates from
1992, there's a few missing.
Parker's _Glossary of Terms Found in Heraldry_ is on-line, has lots of
pictures, and has lots more illos than the Pic Dic.
> Quaver
"(Mus.) An eighth note. See {Eighth}." In the Pic Dic under "Musical
Note", with "Specific types of notes may be called a 'fusa', a
'(semi)minim', or a '(semi)quaver', depending on the period and the
exact form. No heraldic difference is granted."
A precedent from January 2002:
Alicia of Granite Mountain. Holding name and device (see RETURNS
for name). Per chevron argent and purpure, two fleurs-de-lys azure
and a quaver argent.
The musical note drawn here is a lozenge with a vertical stem
rising from the sinister end. While this is the standard SCA form
in the Pictorial Dictionary, further research has not been able to
show this form of musical note as a period musical note. It
continues to be registerable, but submitters should be advised
that the standard form of such a note would have the stem rising
from the top point of the lozenge. To quote from previous
precedent:
According to the PicDic, 2nd ed., # 520, "A musical note is
... commonly represented as a lozenge or an ovoid roundel
with a vertical stem at one end." The 'musical note' here is
not a period form, but a modern (post-period) one. This one
neither matches the semiminim note in the Pictorial Dictionary
(a lozenge shape with a vertical line from the sinister
corner; this version has been superseded by newer research)
nor the form the newer research has shown (a lozenge shape
with a vertical line from the top corner). (LoAR 3/98 p. 16)
For those interested in the "newer research" mentioned in this
LoAR, the documentation for that submission's form of musical note
was from Willi Apel's The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600,
fifth edition. The analysis indicating that the current standard
form of SCA musical note is not found in period musical notation
was provided by Magister Klement St. Christoph.
Submitted under the name Alicia Nicole Burcet.
> Mistral
Pic Dic: "Mistral -- see Wind".
WIND -- Winds are puffs of cloud with human heads, usually visibly
blowing air from their mouths. ... and the "mistral", which is
female. Winds face dexter by default, and should be shown in
profile (though some are affronty); they should never be in trian
aspect.
> Chamfron
Has its own entry.
> Stocks
Can't find it in the Pic Dic, so I assume it has the standard bondage
meaning (this being the SCA, after all), "pl. A frame of timber, with
holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were
formerly confined by way of punishment."
> Zule
Has its own entry. Vaguely resembles a column.
> And would a death's head be included in a beastiary?
Is it a beast?
> A monk's hood?
Is *it* a beast?
> And should I make note of any spelling errors I discover in the O&A
> and send them to someone?
SCA CoA Admin Handbook:
VI. Requests for Correction and Change of Registered Items
Once an item has been registered, requests for modification of the
registered form must use the following procedures.
A. Blazon and Spelling Corrections may be requested if an error
derives from a typographical error or omission in a Letter of
Acceptance and Return and/or the Armorial and Ordinary.
1. Corrections to a Letter of Acceptance and Return must be
requested in writing to Laurel, clearly indicating the
specific error or omission and the Letter of Acceptance and
Return on which the error occurred. Requests for correction
should not be included on letters of intent or letters of
commentary and need not be circulated to the membership of
the College of Arms prior to action. Such requests may be
made by any member of the College of Arms.
>>===>> 2. Corrections to the Armorial and Ordinary not involving
errors in a Letter of Acceptance and Return may be
requested in writing to the Morsulus Herald. Requests for
correction should not be included on letters of intent or
letters of comment and need not be circulated to the
membership of the College of Arms prior to action. Such
requests may be made by any member of the College of Arms.
B. Blazon and Spelling Changes must be requested if the error
derives from an error on a Letter of Intent. Such changes should
be included on a Letter of Intent for the consideration of the
College of Arms just as if the submitter were requesting a
specific change to the name or armory.
So technically you'd have to dig out the original LoI to see how it
ought to be fixed. If you have access to the Ansteorran files, and
they really store other kingdoms' LoIs back to 1979ish, that's great.
Barring that, I suggest you at least look up the LoAR under
<http://sca.org/heraldry/> and tell Morsulus whether the LoAR has the
error or not, and he can decide how to proceed from there. Morsulus
is at morsulus at sca.org
Dankyn de Lincoln
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