The Argentaye Tract : Edited from Paris, BN, Fonds Français 11,464 / Alan Manning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manning, Alan, Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heraldry--France.

Heraldry.

Nobility--France--Brittany.

Nobility.

France.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Argentaye tract, writing some time in the early fifteenth century, is a little-known heraldic treatise of which there appears to be only one extant copy. In this book, the first scholarly edition of any such treatise, Alan Manning presents the original text with extensive notes elucidating difficult passages and points of interest.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. The present status of heraldry

2. Medieval French heraldry

3. The Argentaye tract

4. Editorial principles

Notes to Introduction

5. The text

6. Textual Notes

Appendix

Glossary

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index of proper names

Index

Notes:

"Reprinted 2018"--Title page verso.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-7613-7

OCLC:

1153543154