Avar Anton: Beregi címereslevelek a Magyar Nemzeti Levéltárban - A Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Megyei Levéltár Kiadványai II. Közlemények 55. (Nyíregyháza, 2020)

Patents of arms from Bereg (resume)

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2020. 11. 18. 7:06:06 sometime before 1945 because today some of them can be found in the published catalogues of the DAZO. The twenty-five published charters date from 1590 to 1720. 17 of these originate from the Bereg county archives, the rest are from the archives of the Hungarian Chamber, the former Transylvanian government authorities, the Csicsery and Szilágyi families, as well as the former archives of the Hungarian National Museum (now part of the NAH). In this volume there is only one grant by a Prince of Transylvania, the rest are issues of the Kings of Hungary. Most of the latter were corroborated by the royal privy seal, several by the greater privy seal and only one by the double seal of the king. The language and diplomatics of the privilegial letters patent issued by the Hungarian Chancellery in the 16–17th centuries can be studied by comparing the Latin texts. The heraldic paintings show a fine selection of typically Hungarian family coats of arms, depicting warriors, unicorns, griffins, lions, ostriches, a fiery phoenix, or even such peculiarities as the harp of King David or the dove of Noah. Titles, regests, blazons, headlines of appendices and footnotes are presented parallelly in Hungarian, English and Ukrainian. The English blazoning was accomplished with the help of the fundamental works of Arthur Charles Fox-Davies and James Parker, as well as by consulting the blazons of recent grants of arms of the British College of Arms. As for the Ukrainian heraldic terminology, the summarizing study of Yaroslava Olehivna Ischenko and the modern blazons of the Ukrainian Heraldic Society were utilized. 30