The so-called Scheibler Armorial (''Scheiblersches Wappenbuch'',

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, Cod.icon. 312 c) is an

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manuscript compiled, in two separate portions, over the course of the 15th to 17th centuries. It is named for its first known private owners, the

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Scheibler family of Hülhoven in the

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. The first part can be dated to the later 15th century, ca. 1450–1480. It contains a total of 476 coats of arms. The second part, compiled during the 16th to early 17th centuries, adds 148 additional complete coats of arms, for a total of 624, not including 62 delineated coats of arms left empty. Page numbers and a register in alphabetic order were added in the late 17th century. The collection includes coats of arms of noble families from much across the

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, predominantly its southern areas, categorised as

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and

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, the

and the

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and

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and

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. The younger part introduces the additional, more specific categories of

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, Walgau,

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and

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References

* Marianne Reuter:
Beschreibung der Handschrift Cod.icon. 312 c Tresorhandschrift
'. In: BSB-CodIcon Online,

(2006).

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Scheibler'sches Wappenbuch - BSB Cod.icon. 312 c (online facsimile)
Rolls of arms Heraldry of the Holy Roman Empire

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