Javier Fernández-Cortés y Fonseca, commander
Quarterly: 1 and 4 Azure, five Bezants in saltire; 2 and 3 Or, three hearts Gules ordered. Crest: Upon a Helm Argent with a Wreath Or and Azure a Lion rampant Or, langued and armed Gules. Mantling: Azure doubled Or. Suspended from the base the badge of commander of the Hermandad Nacional Monárquica de España.
Blazon keywords: Quarterly, Azure, Five, Bezant, Bezant and plate, In saltire, Or, Three, Heart, Gules, Ordered, Crest and mantling, Helm, Argent, Mantling, Wreath, Lion, Rampant, Langued, Armed, Suspended, Base (lower 1/3) and Decoration.
Style keywords: Freehand, Semi-circular, Illuminated and Outlined in sable.
Classification: Coat of arms, Interpreted and Personal.
Bearer: Fernández-Cortés y Fonseca, Javier.
Javier Fernández-Cortés y Fonseca, motto and commander
Quarterly: 1 and 4 Azure, five Bezants in saltire; 2 and 3 Or, three hearts Gules ordered. Crest: Upon a Helm Argent with a Wreath Or and Azure a Lion rampant Or, langued and armed Gules. Mantling: Azure doubled Or. Suspended from the base the badge of commander of the Hermandad Nacional Monárquica de España. Lema: «Tan fuerte como valiente y leal es Cortés».
Blazon keywords: Quarterly, Azure, Five, Bezant, Bezant and plate, In saltire, Or, Three, Heart, Gules, Ordered, Crest and mantling, Helm, Argent, Mantling, Wreath, Lion, Rampant, Langued, Armed, Suspended, Base (lower 1/3), Decoration and Motto.
Style keywords: Freehand, Semi-circular, Illuminated and Outlined in sable.
Classification: Coat of arms, Interpreted and Personal.
Bearer: Fernández-Cortés y Fonseca, Javier.
Ma, F.; Century XVI
Anonymous, «Genealogy of the Mǎ Family, 馬民家记», manuscript, from the late Ming to early Qing dynasty, 6 volumes, volume 1, 102 pages, volume 2, 304 pages, volume 3, 242 pages, volume 4, 202 pages, volume 5, 100 pages, and volume 6, 178 pages, total 1128 pages, dated between 1600 and 1735, circa 1735.
Disclaimer
These comments has been writen based on my limited knowledge of Classical Chinese. As such, it may contain inaccuracies or errors. I apologize for any errors and welcome corrections from those more knowledgeable in the subject. It is important to note that, although the manuscript is written in Classical Chinese, some characters in theses comments are in Simplified Chinese.
Cover
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The title of the work on the cover is
«馬民家记», where:
- «民家记» means Genealogy, and
- «馬» is Mǎ in pīnyīn, it is the family name, literally meaning Horse.
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The character «馬» is an ideogram, representing a galloping horse:
- the head faces left,
- three horizontal lines to the right of the head represent the mane blowing in the wind,
- the four vertical strokes below represent the legs, and
- the curved stroke at the bottom right symbolizes the tail.
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Beneath the title on the cover,
we read, from top to bottom and right to left,
as is typical in traditional Chinese:
«六写全» where:
- «六» means six,
- «写» means book, it hasn't plural, books for us, and
- «全» can be translated as complete.
Four generations
The title might suggest it is just the family tree of the Mǎ family, but it is actually a chronicle of the history of a lineage over four generations. Therefore, although it is dated between 1600 and 1735, it is likely written closer to 1735.
The manuscript narrates the deeds and actions of four generations of the Mǎ family from the city of Liáoyáng in northeastern China:
- Great-grandfather: Mǎ Mingpei (1600–1666),
- Grandfather: Mǎ Xiongzhen (1634–1677),
- Father: Mǎ Shiji (1650–1714),
- Son: Mǎ Guozhen (1666–1720).
It seems to be a story of ascent and descent:
- The great-grandfather was a significant figure.
- The grandfather was even more prominent, eventually assassinated, and posthumously awarded titles and an honorary name, «Wenyi».
- The father and son, though important, did not reach the heights of their predecessors.
This manuscript contains official titles, title grants, imperial praises for their actions, historical events, and also the poetic and literary works of the four generations.
Scanned for readability by Westerners
The correspondence between these 6 volumes and the 9 scaned PDF files is as follows:
- Volume 1: PDF 1.
- Volume 2: PDF 2 and PDF 3.
- Volume 3: PDF 4 and PDF 5.
- Volume 4: PDF 6 and PDF 7.
- Volume 5: PDF 8.
- Volume 6: PDF 9.
The Chinese books are read: from back to front, from right to left, and from top to bottom.
The scanning process was done so that what would be the last pages of the book for us, and the first for the Chinese, are at the beginning of the PDF. The pages are scanned in pairs to be readable by Westerners: starting from page 2-1, read from right to left, with 1 blank, and continuing 4-3, 6-5, 8-9... until the end of the PDF file.
The Chinese script used in this manuscript is clear and legible compared to other documents from that era.
Pages
6 volumes:
- volume 1, 51*2 = 102 pages,
- volume 2, 65*2+87*2 = 304 pages,
- volume 3, 66*2+55*2 = 242 pages,
- volume 4, 48*2+53*2 = 202 pages,
- volume 5, 50*2 = 100 pages, and
- volume 6, 89*2 = 178 pages,
Bibliographical reference of century XVI.
Classification: Manuscript, Classical Chinese language and In black and white.
Author: unknown.
External links:
- Library of the Congress.
- Volume 2, initial part.
- Volume 2, final part.
- Volume 3, initial part.
- Volume 3, final part.
- Volume 4, initial part.
- Volume 4, final part.
- Volume 5.
- Volume 6.
Internal resources: MaFamiliaXVIII.01a.tapas.pdf Volume 1 PDF format, MaFamiliaXVIII.02a.tapas.pdf Volume 2, initial part, PDF format, MaFamiliaXVIII.02b.pdf Volume 2, final part, PDF format, MaFamiliaXVIII.03a.tapas.pdf Volume 3, initial part, PDF format, MaFamiliaXVIII.03b.pdf Volume 3, final part, PDF format, MaFamiliaXVIII.04a.tapas.pdf Volume 4, initial part, PDF format, MaFamiliaXVIII.04b.pdf Volume 4, final part, PDF format, MaFamiliaXVIII.05a.tapas.pdf Volume 5 PDF format and MaFamiliaXVIII.06a.tapas.pdf Volume 6 PDF format.
Bibliographical reference of century XVI.
Classification: Manuscript, Classical Chinese language and In black and white.
Author: unknown.
External links:
- Library of the Congress.
- Volume 2, initial part.
- Volume 2, final part.
- Volume 3, initial part.
- Volume 3, final part.
- Volume 4, initial part.
- Volume 4, final part.
- Volume 5.
- Volume 6.
Internal resources: MaFamiliaXVIII.01a.tapas.pdf Volume 1 PDF format, MaFamiliaXVIII.02a.tapas.pdf Volume 2, initial part, PDF format, MaFamiliaXVIII.02b.pdf Volume 2, final part, PDF format, MaFamiliaXVIII.03a.tapas.pdf Volume 3, initial part, PDF format, MaFamiliaXVIII.03b.pdf Volume 3, final part, PDF format, MaFamiliaXVIII.04a.tapas.pdf Volume 4, initial part, PDF format, MaFamiliaXVIII.04b.pdf Volume 4, final part, PDF format, MaFamiliaXVIII.05a.tapas.pdf Volume 5 PDF format and MaFamiliaXVIII.06a.tapas.pdf Volume 6 PDF format.
Eight-ball
Imaginary coat of arms for the poolgame called Eight-ball.
Or, a Billiard 8 ball proper.
Coat of arms I created with: the shape semicircular at base; the field with a metallic finishing; and the charge with an iridescent finishing.
Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Or, One, Non-classic artifact and Proper.
Style keywords: Semi-circular, Crystalline, Soft metal, Outlined in sable and Illuminated.
Classification: Created, Imaginary and Coat of arms.
Imaginary bearer: Bola 8.
Eight-ball, heraldic poster
Or, a Billiard 8 ball proper.
Escudo de oro, una bola 8 de billar al natural.
Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Or, One, Non-classic artifact and Proper.
Style keywords: Semi-circular, Crystalline, Soft metal, Outlined in sable and Illuminated.
Classification: Created, Imaginary and Coat of arms.
Imaginary bearer: Bola 8.
Eight-ball, another version with a terrace in base
Or, an eight-ball proper on a terrace in base Vert.
Escudo de oro, una bola ocho al natural terrazada de sinople.
Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Or, One, Non-classic artifact, Proper and Terrace in base.
Style keywords: Semi-circular, Crystalline, Soft metal, Outlined in sable and Illuminated.
Classification: Created, Imaginary and Coat of arms.
Imaginary bearer: Bola 8.
Empresa, conjunto de cargas sobre el campo
En Don Quijote, [Cervantes Saavedra, M. de; 1605; volumen 1, capítulo 18], el escudo de armas del «duque de Nerbia» se describe utilizando la palabra «empresa»~«enterprise», escribiendo «las armas de los veros azules», refiriéndose al forro de su escudo de armas, «es el poderoso duque de Nerbia, Espartafilardo del Bosque, que trae por empresa en el escudo una esparraguera, con una letra en castellano que dice así: «Rastrea mi suerte»».
Unas líneas antes, y para el joven caballero francés Pierres Papín, con un escudo sencillo de plata sin cargas ni lema, Cervantes escribe sin «empresa»: «que trae las armas como nieve blancas y el escudo blanco y sin empresa alguna».
Cervantes utiliza «empresa» para referirse únicamente a las cargas del escudo de armas, no al campo, ni a su color, metal o forro, ni al lema, lo cual queda claro cuando escribe: «Y desta manera fue nombrando muchos caballeros del uno y del otro escuadrón que él se imaginaba, y a todos les dio sus armas, colores, empresas y motes...».
El término se utiliza con el mismo significado de «carga en el escudo de armas» en el comentario al final de [Febrer, J.; Siglo XIII; trova 39] que dice «y quiso significarle con el puente, que traía por empresa en su escudo», siendo en este caso la carga el puente.
La quinta acepción del término «empresa» en el diccionario [Real Academia Española; 2014] es «Símbolo o figura que alude a lo que se intenta conseguir o denota alguna cualidad de la que se hace alarde, acompañada frecuentemente de un lema», que si bien no se refiere específicamente a la heráldica, está en línea con el uso anterior y deja claro que el lema no es parte de la «empresa» aunque puede acompañarla.
Por tanto, en castellano, el término «empresa» se refiere específicamente a la carga o cargas sobre el campo de un escudo de armas, y no incluye los esmaltes del campo, el lema, ni sus ornamentos exteriores.
Category: Criterion.
Sigue por: Enterprise, set of charges on the field.
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Language
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Categories of heraldry
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Divisions of the field
- Without divisions
- Party per pale
- Party per fess
- Party per bend sinister
- Tierce
- Tierce sinister
- Tierced per bend
- Quarterly
- Quarterly per saltire
- Gyronny
- Party per fess, the chief per pale
- Party per pale, the sinister per fess
- Party per fess, the base per pale
- Party per pale, the dexter per fess
- Party per chevron
- Enté en point
- Flanched
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Metals
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Colours
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Furs
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Other tinctures
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Ordinaries and sub-ordinaries
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Diminutives of the ordinaries
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Other charges
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Charges from Nature
Eagle, Bald eagle, Eagle claw, Dorsal fin, Tail fin, Two hands clasped, Lark, Tree, Trunk, Rainbow, Atom, Barbel, Acorn, Arm, Owl, Horse, Head, Thistle, Kapok tree, Stag, Doe, Crescent, Increscent, Tail, Heart, Roe deer, Neck, Roe deers' attires, Raven, Dolphin, Diamond, Tooth, Elephant, Emerald, Starling, Mullet, Mullet of four points, Star of David, Estoile, Male figure, Fleur de lis, Hop cone, Puffin, Ash, Claw, Talons, Goose, Heron, Seagull, Pomegranate, Sunflower, Falcon, Leaf, Boar, Goldfinch, Laurel, Barn owl, Lion, Lioness, Lion passant, Leopard, Lion rampant guardant, Lynx, Lily, Flame, Wolf, She-wolf, Hand, Apple, Martlet, Wing, Two wings in vol, Covert, Mount, Trimount, Fly, Wrist, Olive tree, Orbital, Bear, Palm frond, Palm tree, Dove, Poplar leaf, Paw, Forepaw, Peacock, Chest, Pelican, Pelican in her piety, Dog, Brach hound, Fish, Hoof, Beak, Quill, Cinquefoil, Quetzal, Branch, Caboshed, Oak, Holm oak, Rose, Double rose, Serpent, Sun in splendour, Ray of the sun, Stem, Badger, Wheat, Wheat spike, Bull, Tulip, Udder, Escallop and Fox.
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Artificial charges
Halberd, Plough share, Ace of spades, Anchor, Cyclamor, Torch, Arch, Harp, Non-classic artifact, Crozier, Ship, Beret, Grenade, Ecclesiastical cap, Chain, Covered cup, Bell tower, Cannon dismounted, Carbuncle, Castle, Clarion, Nail, Cord, Dagger, Key ward, Turret, With a turret, Sword, Sabre, Scroll, Arrow, Garb, Gauntlet, Axe, Buckle, Spear, Spear's head, Letter, Book, Closed book, Open book, Page, Line, Key, Four crescents joined millsailwise, Hammer, Menorah, Number, Knot, Celtic Trinity knot, Parchment, Piano, Millstone, Millrind, Millwheel, Clay pot, Bridge, Hourglass, Chess rooks, Compass rose, Rosette of acanthus leaves, Mullet of six points pierced, Broken, Portcullis, Wheel, Wagon-wheel, Symbol, Sackbut, Drum, Tower, Trident, Trumpet, Double vajra and Anvil.
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Immaterial charges
Angel, Heart enflamed, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Paschal lamb, Dragon, Wyvern, Phoenix, Garuda, Griffin, Sea-griffin, Winged hand, Our Lady of Mercy, Pegasus, Saint George, Trinity, Triton, Golden fleece, Unicorn and Ouroboros.
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External elements
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Heraldic creations
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References
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Formats
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Keywords on this page
Proper, Armed, Non-classic artifact, Azure, Bezant and plate, Bezant, Bibliography, Bola 8, Wreath, Five, Decoration, Heart, Created, Crystalline, Criterion, Quarterly, Outlined in sable, In black and white, In saltire, Coat of arms, Fernández-Cortés y Fonseca, Javier, Genealogy, Personal, Gules, Illuminated, Imaginary, Interpreted, Mantling, Langued, Motto, Classical Chinese language, Lion, Manuscript, Semi-circular, Soft metal, Ordered, Or, Suspended, Argent, Without divisions, Base (lower 1/3), Rampant, Century XVI, Terrace in base, Crest and mantling, Freehand, Three, One and Helm.