Wernigerode Armorial
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The Wernigerode Armorial is an armorial compiled in southern Germany in the late 15th century.
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 compact diagram. In late medieval Europe, this emblem was considered to be the heraldic arms of God.
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.
1833 reconstruction of the Agincourt banner of the Trinity