Wernigerode Armorial
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The Wernigerode Armorial is an armorial compiled in southern Germany in the late 15th century.
Fol. 8v–Maximilian, Römischer König
Fol. 1v: Attributed arms of God, with the Shield of the Trinity and dove crest
Fol. 3v: Attributed arms of Death, with the motto sic transit gloria mundi et respice manus
Fol. 260r displays thirty coats of arms
Shield of the Trinity
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The Shield of the Trinity or Scutum Fidei is a traditional Christian visual symbol which expresses many aspects of the doctrine of the Trinity, summarizing the first part of the Athanasian Creed in a
Wernigerode Armorial
…coats of arms, as was the custom at the time in order of descending rank, beginning with a number of purely fictitious or symbolic coats of arms, that of God, of Jesus Christ, of Death, of the "first arms" of kings Abysay, Sabytay, Banabias, of "King Alphonsus of Castilia", "the holy King Job", the "holy…
The earliest attested version of the diagram, from a manuscript of Peter of Poitiers' writings, c. 1210
Petrus Alfonsi's early 12th-century Tetragrammaton-Trinity diagram, a probable precursor to the Shield of the Trinity
From William Peraldus' Summa Vitiorum, c. 1255–1265. Includes e converso 'vice versa' in the link captions to clarify that links are bidirectional.
An 1833 reconstruction of the Agincourt banner of the Trinity