[MR] [AtlantianHeralds] Heraldic Term of the Day - bezant

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Date: Friday, January 30, 2009 4:50:04 pm
To: <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
From: "Beverly Robinson-Curry" <brcurry at bellsouth.net>
Subject: [MR] [AtlantianHeralds] Heraldic Term of the Day - bezant

This was the one for Friday.



 



 



>From _An Heraldic Alphabet_ by J.P. Brooke-Little



 



"Bezant - Term applied to a roundel when it is gold.  As bezants were

originally gold coins most textbooks state that they should not be shaded to

show relief but they sometimes are and I doubt whether any great solecism is

committed.  The term "talent" means a bezant but is seldom, if ever, used."



 



Bonus points.  Who can tell us the names assigned to the other tinctures of

roundels?



 



 



Rhiannon



 



Mistress Rhiannon ui Neill



Triton Principal Herald



House Corvus, Atlantia



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