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A roll of arms (or armorial) is a collection of coats of arms, usually consisting of rows of painted pictures of shields, each shield accompanied by the name of the person bearing the arms. A roll may also consist of blazons (verbal descriptions) rather than illustrations. The following is a list of known historical examples of rolls of arms.

Mediaeval examples

English mediaeval rolls

  • Glover's Roll, c. 1240–1245 as dated by Sir Harris Nicolas, 55 coats. British Museum Add MS 29796. Made by Robert Glover(d.1588), Somerset Herald, in 1586 from a now lost roll of arms of the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272). The arms are not drawn but only blazoned. Planché states it to be the earliest source of heraldic information and was the first to name it after Glover.
  • The Matthew Paris Shields, drawings of shields c. 1244-59, temp. Henry III, with Latin annotations.
  • The Dering Roll, late 13th century, the earliest surviving English original roll of arms. 324 coats, painted. Parchment, 81⁄4" wide by 8ft 8" long. British Library. Provenance: Sir Richard Dering (1598–1644).
  • Walford's Roll, c. 1275, 185 coats with blazons. British Museum MS Harl 6589,f.12,12b.
  • The Camden Roll, c. 1280, 270 coats painted, 185 with blazons. British Museum, Cotton Roll, 8.
  • St George's Roll, c. 1285, 677 coats, painted. College of Arms, London, MS Vincent 164 ff.1–21b.
  • Charles' Roll, c. 1285, 486 coats, painted. Society of Antiquaries, London, MS517 (Copy, c. 15th century). Planché however names as "Charles's Roll" a copy of a mid-13th-century roll containing nearly 700 coats drawn in pen and ink (i.e. "tricked") by Nicholas Charles(d.1613), Lancaster Herald, in 1607 (British Museum, Harley MS 6589). Charles stated that the original had been lent to him by the Norroy King of Arms.
  • The Galloway Roll, 1300, 259 coats with blazons. College of Arms, London, MS M.14, ff.168–75 (copy by Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms, d1534).
  • The Falkirk Roll, c. 1298, 115 coats with blazons. Lists the knights with King Edward I at Battle of Falkirk(1298). Various copies exist. The British Museum copy (MS Harl 6589, f.9–9b) was formerly in the Treasury Chamber in Paris in 1576.
  • The Heralds' Roll, c. 1280, 697 coats, painted. FitzWilliam Museum, Cambridge MS297 (Copy, 15th century)
  • Roll of Caerlaverock or Poem of Caerlaverock, 1300, 110 poetry blazons, no images. Near contemporary copy, vellum: British Museum, Cotton Caligula A XVIII, ff.23b–30b. Two other copies exist, made by Glover from a now lost different original source, one at College of Arms, London, the other at the Office of the Ulster King of Arms, Dublin. Made in 1300 by English heralds during Edward I's siege of Caerlaverock Castle, Scotland. Text: see s:The Roll of Caerlaverock/The Roll. Commentary by Nicholas Harris Nicolas: "The siege of Carlaverock in the XXVIII Edward I. A.D. MCCC; with the arms of the earls, barons, and knights, who were present on the occasion; with a translation, a history of the castle, and memoirs of the personages commemorated by the poet", London, 1828.
  • The Lord Marshal's Roll, 1295, 565 coats, painted. Society of Antiquaries, London, MS 664, vol.1, ff.19–25. Collin's Roll (Q)
  • Collins' Roll, 1296, 598 coats, painted. Queen's College, Oxford, MS 158, pp. 366–402 (Copy c1640). College of Arms, London
  • Stirling Roll, 1304, 102 coats. College of Arms, London MS M.14, ff.269–272 (Copy by Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms, d1534).
  • Stepney Roll, 1308. Lists knights present at Stepney Tournament, 1308. Published in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol. 4, p. 63.
  • Dunstable Roll, 1334. Lists knights present at Dunstable Tournament, 1334. Published in Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vol. 4, p. 389.
  • Calais Roll, 1346/7. 116 shields in brown ink, shaded & lettered to denote tinctures. Made probably in late 16th century from transcripts of accounts kept by Walter Wetewang, treasurer of the household 1346–7 showing wages paid to participants at the Siege of Calais. Extant only in form of about 20 16th-century manuscripts. Classed as spurious by Wagner (1950), but as “one of the documentary pillars of fourteenth-century military studies,” by Ayton (1994).
  • Powell's Roll c. 1345-1351, English, MS. Ashmole 804, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
  • Salisbury Roll (c. 1463), English.

European mediaeval rolls

  • Gelre Armorial, Dutch, c. 1370–1414, 1,700 coats. Royal Library, Belgium.
  • Armorial du Hérault Vermandois, c. 1285–1300. 1,076 blasons. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS.français 2249 (Copy, 15th century)
  • Armorial Wijnbergen, French. Part 1, c. 1265–1270; Part 2, c. 1270–1285. 1,312 coats, painted. Royal Dutch Association of Genealogy & Heraldry, The Hague.
  • The Bigot Roll, 1254, French. 300 coats. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds français no 18648 fo 32 – 39.
  • The Chifflet-Prinet Roll, c. 1285–1298, 147 coats with blasons. Bibliothèque Municipale, Besançon, Collection Chifflet, MS 186, pp. 145–154.

Renaissance examples

  • Stemmario Trivulziano, Italian, c. 1470–1480, 2,000 coats. Biblioteca Trivulziana, Milan, Italy. Possibly the most renowned of the Italian Renaissance armorials, probably a work by Gian Antonio da Tradate, formerly the property of the Princes Trivulzio. This codex dates back to the early years of the condottiere Francesco I Sforza as Duke of Milan (1450–66). It blazons the ducal arms and those of linked families such as Brandolini, Savelli, Colonna, Orsini, Scaligeri, Este and Gonzaga. Also the arms of the German merchant-bankers Fugger.

Modern examples

  • Burke's General Armory: "The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales; Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time". By Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms. London 1884. May be considered a Roll of Arms in the widest sense of the term. A listing of every known armorial ever used in the British Isles, still not superseded in usefulness. Not always reliable.

References

  1. Planché, J.R. The Pursuivant of Arms; or Heraldry founded upon facts, London, 1873, pp.31
  2. Planché, J.R. The Pursuivant of Arms; or Heraldry founded upon facts, London, 1873, pp.30–31
  3. Rolls of Arms Henry III: The Matthew Paris Shields (c. 1244-59); Glover's Roll (c. 1253-58) and Walford's Roll (c. 1273); Additions and Corrections to A Catalogue of English Mediaeval Rolls of Arms. Edited by Thomas Daniel Tremlett Edited by Hugh Stanford London. Rolls of Arms Henry III. Published in 1958 in series "Aspilogia" by Boydell Press
  5. Planché, J.R. The Pursuivant of Arms; or Heraldry founded upon facts, London, 1873, pp.31
  6. Planché, J.R. The Pursuivant of Arms; or Heraldry founded upon facts, London, 1873, pp.32
  7. http://archive.org/stream/siegeofcarlavero00nicouoft/siegeofcarlavero00nicouoft_djvu.txt
  8. http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/detail/ODLodl~1~1~31397~108871:Roll-of-arms--Powell-s-Roll--
  9. England in the Fifteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1986 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. by Daniel Williams (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1987)
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