Militarium ordinum origines, statuta, symbola, et insignia, iconibus, additis genuinis : hac editione multorum ordinum, & quoquot extitere, accessione locupletata, serie[que] temporum distributa

Mennens, Frans, b. 1582 · 1623 · Coloniae Agrippinae ; Et denuo Maceratae : Apud Petrum Saluionum · 57 pictures

A 1623 Latin treatise by Frans Mennens, printed in Cologne and Macerata, cataloguing the origins, statutes and insignia of military religious orders of knighthood for a learned readership of historians and heraldists. The four pictures are woodcut-style emblems: shield-like cartouches with scrolled borders enclosing crosses, fleurs-de-lis and birds, offering a designer ready material for heraldic badges, ornamental frames and medieval-revival insignia.

Orders of knighthood and chivalry · Military religious orders

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