The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M.

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The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M.
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Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
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London :: Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for Humfrey Lownes, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules church-yard,
1595.
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Falconry -- Early works to 1800.
Hunting -- Early works to 1800.
Heraldry -- Early works to 1800.
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"The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16401.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.

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Of Armes parted ouerthwart indented.

Of armes indented and parted ouerthwart I doe meane to speake, and they be called indented, by reason of the intermizture of the colours in such man∣ner of indentings:

[illustration] blazon or coat of arms
and such armes are blazed in this ma∣ner, Portat arma partita ex transuerso indentata de auro et asureo, in French, Il port partiee de trauers d'or & d'azure endentee, in English He beareth golde and azure parted ouerthwart and indented.

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And now to speake more of Armes parted ouer∣thwart, it shall be needelesse being sufficiently de∣clared before in the rules of Armes quartered and parted, holding this maxime, inutilis est repetitio vni∣us ad eiusdem: And I do beleeue it shal be hard to find many more Armes parted at length or ouerthwart than bee heere rehearsed, neuerthelesse, if any bee found, the same rules shall be obserued in them as are before rehearsed.

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