After a visit back to Europe last December/ January and going back to places where I used to live…..particularly the city of Cambridge, I decided that I would have a go at rendering emblazonments of the individual colleges that make up the University.
After I finished that, I just had to try my hand at the trillion colleges that make Oxford University.
What I found out during this little exercise was that my copy of Burke’s General Armory is not 100% correct in some of the blazons listed.
Queen’s College Cambridge was one notable anomaly. After contacting the college archivist, we found that Burke’s blazon is wrong.
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u119/bbheraldry/AHS Images/QueensaccordingtoBurkes.jpg
....the arms if the above blazon is used.
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u119/bbheraldry/AHS Images/Burkesversion-QueensCollege.jpg
....and the arms as used by Queen’s College
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u119/bbheraldry/AHS Images/QueensCollegeasusedbyQueens.jpg
If anyone is interested, the rest of the colleges of both Universities can be seen at these URL’s.
http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u119/bbheraldry/CAMFORD COLLEGES/Cambridge Colleges/?start=all
http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u119/bbheraldry/CAMFORD COLLEGES/Oxford Colleges/?start=all
An ambitious undertaking even for clip-art. I am perplexed, though, by your choice of decidedly eastern European eagles for the arms of Magdalene College.
Nice Barrie
Barrie Burr;85818 wrote:
Have a look here and you may be able to figure it out.
Well, I must admit that is more Germanic looking than I would have expected.
The problem with using the various clip art forms for an undertaking like this is that there is no cohesiveness between the various arms of the two universities.
It is always nice though to see the arms of King’s College, where my father-in-law did his post-doc in the beginning days of his efforts to cure cancer.
This another even more Germanic styled version of the arms. I have no idea to whom the credit should go for this though.
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u119/bbheraldry/AHS Images/MagdaleneCollegeb.jpg
These Magdalenean eagles are IMO no more "Germanic" than some of the versions of Alex Findlater’s arms that we’ve seen posted in the past (here or on HSS site?)
But, Mike, the rendition of my arms to which I think you refer, is based on the Armorial de la Toison d’Or, which was Burgundian from ca 1438. Not at all Germanic, merely main-stream European at that period. :D
But, Mike, the rendition of my arms to which I think you refer, are based on the Armorial de la Toison d’Or, which was Burgundian from ca 1438. Not at all Germanic, merely main-stream European at that period. :D