I thought the following link could be interesting, so I put it on this forum !

The Lille Library has scanned a lot of medieval manuscripts, page by page, and here's the link to an online XVth century french "armorial de la Table Ronde", which contains near 166 blasons of arthurian knights.

The text is middle french, but you may recognise some names of the blasons' owners just after each drawing.

For those who can read further, the text is a physical and moral description of the knight. If I have the time to do it (hum...), I may translate it for our english speaking knights...

Follow the link : http://numerique.bibliotheque.bm-lille.fr/sdx/num/manuscrit_329/?qid=sdx_q0&p=1
and click on each page to see it in larger scale.

Colwin Lyber, guardian of the Four Winds Bar

I'm a herald in the SCA, and this is simply fantastic!!

I'll ask around and see if a translation is already floating about.

Thanks muchly for sharing!

Lord Miklos Farma of Calontir
aka MrUkpyr

Great !

Thanks for this information ! Just notice that the page 49R is missing !

For those who can read further, the text is a physical and moral description of the knight. If I have the time to do it (hum...), I may translate it for our english speaking knights...

Follow the link : http://numerique.bibliotheque.bm-lille.fr/sdx/num/manuscrit_329/?qid=sdx_q0&p=1
and click on each page to see it in larger scale.



For information sake, we have a similar list here:
http://gspendragon.com/lesarmes.pdf

not illustrated, alas.

For information sake, we have a similar list here:
http://gspendragon.com/lesarmes.pdf

not illustrated, alas.



and not with arthurian biographies, but I work for this (I translate in Fench the Old French since Friday 8)

Hello

Thanks, Caball





For information sake, we have a similar list here:
http://gspendragon.com/lesarmes.pdf

not illustrated, alas.




Yeah, I read it, and it reminded me of this link I published here. The work of Freddy Sibileau is very complete.

Here is another one old manuscript from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France which is very similar :

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60001142 (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60001142)

This is an another version, with a better layout. The text, as far as I've read, is very close, if not the same. (I read only a few pages...)

Here is also an internet database of blasons (families, town and breton blasons...) :

http://marikavel.com/blasons/accueil.htm

from a french breton site. On this site you can find an arthurian page which is incomplete :

http://marikavel.com/blasons/chevaliers-arthuriens.htm

I'm trying to find some fully-illustrated modern armorial of the Knights of the Round Table. There's a beautiful and expensive book in french (Les Armoiries des Chevaliers de la Table Ronde, de Michel Pastoureau) but I found another source someday, but I don't remember where... As soon as I recall, I post it here...

Colwin Lyber, Guardian of the Four Winds Bar

Hello

Thanks, Caball

Yeah, I read it, and it reminded me of this link I published here. The work of Freddy Sibileau is very complete.

I'm trying to find some fully-illustrated modern armorial of the Knights of the Round Table. There's a beautiful and expensive book in french (Les Armoiries des Chevaliers de la Table Ronde, de Michel Pastoureau) but I found another source someday, but I don't remember where... As soon as I recall, I post it here...

Colwin Lyber, Guardian of the Four Winds Bar




Hello

You're welcome. Thanks for your opinion on my work !
Of course, I have Les Armoiries... de Pastoureau (Mr Heraldry in French University) 'cause it's my primary source for my compilation !

Caball

Hi,

i post on this old thread because i discover recently this database on french wikipedia, using same source than Caball :


http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorial_des_Chevaliers_de_la_Table_Ronde

you don't dream, it's an armorial for the Knight of the Round Table, and illustrated !

i post on this old thread because i discover recently this database on french wikipedia, using same source than Caball :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorial_des_Chevaliers_de_la_Table_Ronde


Thank you
This is apparently the same sets of arms that I used for KAP